Just under a year ago, the Vermont House Education Committee approved legislation that would have paused the state’s ambitious and logistically complex school testing program for toxic chemicals known ...

A bill that would have triggered a pause of Vermont’s costly, time-intensive and disruptive program to test for and remove toxic PCB chemicals from older school buildings has died in the legislature.

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The cost of additional PCB testing at Wethersfield High School jumped another $10,000 Monday, to as much as $40,000. Reasons for the increase include new testing, confirming earlier tests and probing ...

A Vermont bill could bring to an end the state’s multi-million dollar school PCB testing program that came in the wake of the discovery of contamination at the former Burlington High School.

WESTMINSTER — Starting next week, special testing on the PCB-contaminated structural steel columns at Bellows Falls Union High School could determine how and whether the high school building can be ...