Lead does not break down over time and so accumulates in soil, but not much federal testing or scientific research has focused on the potential risks coming from lead-sheathed telephone cables. READ ...

EDF requested that EPA investigate: . . . the uncontrolled release of lead into the water or surface soil from more than 2,000 lead-sheathed telecom and power cables across the nation with more than ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – In a major milestone for efforts to Keep Tahoe Blue, the League to Save Lake Tahoe announced that the removal of lead-sheathed telecommunication cables from below Lake Tahoe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SPRINGFIELD — U.S. Sen. Edward J. Markey D-Mass., wants to know where Verizon’s old lead-sheathed telephone cables are and what ...

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On a cloudy day in late October, Alyssa Shiel crouched on a narrow strip of grass between the curb and the sidewalk of a neighborhood in inner Southeast Portland, plunging a small syringe-like probe ...

Boston College Professor of Biology Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., founding director of the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good, joined a roundtable discussion on February 5 that sought ...

Concerns about potential widespread lead contamination of residential neighborhoods, schools and drinking water supplies from lead sheathing in telecommunications wires, fueled by a series of recent ...

The Environmental Protection Agency sent letters requesting telecom companies to meet with the agency about their lead-sheathed phone cables, in a new phase of an investigation in the EPA’s efforts to ...

The Centre has declined to ban Indian power and transmission utilities from using high-voltage power cables containing toxic chemical — lead — while laying the underground transmission lines. The CII ...

(KRON) — In an effort to “Keep Tahoe Blue,” crews removed eight miles of lead-sheathed telecommunication cables from below Lake Tahoe’s waters. The League to Save Lake Tahoe said the ...