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The U.S. EPA plans to spend around $2.8 million to clean up five Dartmouth properties that were found to have dangerously high concentrations of hazardous chemicals.

A million cubic yards of PCB-laden sediment has been removed from New Bedford harbor, and a former staging area has been handed over to the city.

Salt marsh remediation will be conducted in Fairhaven from Pleasant Street to Veranda Avenue.

A new report from academic researchers concluded that any PCB air pollution in the area comes from the harbor, and not from other industrial polluters.

Boston University researchers found that PCB emissions near the harbor are among the worst in the nation.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection is looking into how toxic waste made its way into a Dartmouth neighborhood.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection is conducting an investigation into the discovery of contaminants in a Dartmouth neighborhood.

The Hands Across The River Coalition has had no luck convincing the EPA's Regional Office to abandon its plans to bury pcb's in New Bedford Harbor. So now, the Coalition is taking its complaints to Washington. Current E-P-A plans call for the burying of toxic pcb's in so-called unlined holes or cad cells close to the Fairhaven shoreline...

The Environmental Protection Agency is touting the technology being used at a 35 year old hazardous waste site in Dartmouth as a process that can work at sites around the nation. E-P-A representatives and its partners toured the Resolve site on North Hixville Road on Monday and celebrated the ongoing cleanup using technology called Anaerobic Bioreactors...

The EPA's New Bedford Harbor Technical Working Group met at City Hall Tuesday to discuss the agency's progress in cleaning up the harbor.