In 1978, a contractor working for Ward Transformer Sales and Service near RDU illegally dumped 30,000 gallons of toxins along 200 miles of roadsides in 14 counties. Nearly three decades later, fish-consumption advisories are still expanding throughout the Triangle’s watersheds, and public officials are still defending their cleanup plans. “The state and the EPA seriously […]
Ana Pardo
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EPA holds hearing on Raleigh PCBs
Anglers frequenting the banks of Lake Crabtree will have an opportunity this week to ask officials how long they have to wait before they can resume eating what they catch. Crabtree and many of the surrounding waterways are under fish consumption advisories with no end-date in sight due to toxic contamination from the Ward Transformer […]