Toxic PCBs linger in schools; EPA, lawmakers fail to act

By Tammy Webber and Martha Irvine

The Chicago-based team of Tammy Webber,environment reporter,and Martha Irvine,national writer and visual journalist,for reporting exclusively that the Environmental Protection Agency and lawmakers have quietly abandoned efforts to rid schools of toxic PCBs, and that the EPA never even attempted to determine the scope of the contamination or assess potential health risks.