We don’t normally give much thought to utility poles until someone pulls up in a bucket truck to work on one or a spitting power line falls during a storm. But few things are as useful. Utility poles ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to ban all uses of the wood preservative pentachlorophenol. The decision comes after the sole producer of the chemical in North America announced ...

The U.S. EPA has canceled the registration for pentachlorophenol, or “Penta,” a wood preservative utilized primarily on utility poles that has been in use for decades. During the registration review ...

A highly toxic chemical banned by up to 168 countries is set to be produced in South Carolina, making the state one of the few places in North America — if not the only place — that will manufacture ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) - Pacific Gas and Electric power poles leach carcinogenic preservatives into Bay Area waters, Ecological Rights Foundation claims in Federal Court. The group says PG&E treats its ...

After a public outcry, an Orangeburg chemical manufacturer says it won’t make a highly toxic pesticide that scores of countries have banned because of the material’s environmental impact. Gulbrandsen ...

(Beyond Pesticides, March 9, 2021) Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced an interim decision to cancel of one of the most hazardous pesticides still used in the United States, ...