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Lawmakers Are Trying — Again — to Halt PCB School Testing Program

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 ...
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House approves a pause on Vermont’s PCB testing program

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Despite increasingly clean cars, Oregon's emissions testing program shows no signs of stopping

PORTLAND, Ore. — Most drivers in the Portland metro area are no doubt familiar with emissions testing, the state requirement that you take in your vehicle for an air pollutant check-up to keep it ...
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Vermont’s School PCB Testing Program Is Off to a Rocky Start

Superintendent Mark Tucker and principal Rebecca Tatistcheff in the Cabot School gymnasium Credit: Jeb Wallace-Brodeur The week before school started this fall, Caledonia Central Supervisory Union ...
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Final Reading: Should Vermont end its first-of-a-kind PCB testing program in schools?

Vermont is better when we’re all informed. Join 30,000+ neighbors who start their day with local news that matters. Committee chair Rep. Peter Conlon, D-Cornwall, speaks during a meeting of the House ...