The Nation - News from July 3, 1985
The Environmental Protection Agency ordered the nation’s landlords and utilities to remove thousands of electrical transformers containing PCB fluids, or the fluids themselves, from commercial buildings over the next five years. In a major stiffening of rules covering PCB transformers, the agency also said it was requiring increased electrical protection of PCB transformers that did not have to be removed. The net cost of complying with the rules was estimated at $400 million. PCBs, polychlorinated biphenyl compounds, can cause cancer and other disorders in laboratory animals.
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