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 ...

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 ...

BEVERLY, Mass., July 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In response to recent media reporting in the United States, ATN International, Inc. (“ATN” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: ATNI), completed a preliminary ...

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 ...

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 ...

WSJ (Wall Street Journal) prepared some (paywalled) outstanding journalism. WSJ tested for lead around older lead-sheathed cables. High lead was strongly linked to old lead-sheathed cables.

The lawsuits draw on reporting from the Wall Street Journal asserting that lead-sheathed cables that various telecom companies inherited from Bell System are leaching lead into the environment.

WAPPINGERS FALLS — The state gave the go-ahead for a Wappingers Falls park to reopen after it was temporarily closed for environmental tests based on reports that lead contained in nearby ...

The NEC Chapter Three wiring methods include various cable types, such as: 1) armored cable (Type AC) [Art. 320]; 2) metal-clad cable (Type MC) [Art. 330]; 3) nonmetallic-sheathed cable (Types NM and ...

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 ...