Joints around windows and between masonry panels in public buildings erected or renovated during the 1960s and 1970s were often sealed with a caulk containing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The ...

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Environmental health researchers at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have identified caulking and sealing materials as an unrecognized and possibly widespread source of polychlorinated biphenyl ...

During the first quarter of 2018, Moayedi recalled, the multifamily portion of the project began leaking water on the 12 th floor. The project, which was also the source of an IRS investigation last ...

Polychlorinated biphenyls, an infamous industrial toxic largely banned for three decades, still lurk in some unexpected places, including caulk used in schools and other buildings from 1950 to 1978.

THE CITY now acknowledges finding illegal levels of toxins in 19 public schools across the city, adding momentum to a Bronx mother’s lawsuit to force a citywide cleanup. The 19 schools are in addition ...