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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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.

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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 ...

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 ...

Conducting product testing on printed circuit boards (PCBs) has the potential to become costly. Because of this, it’s easy for businesses to view PCB assembly testing as an expense without much value.

As test targets shrink, the benefits of socketless probing technology grow. As technology advances, more and more electronic components that do bigger and better things are hitting the market. At the ...