Pentachlorophenol is on its way out as a utility pole preservative. Here’s what might take its place Phaseout is pushing a slow-to-change industry to look at alternatives by Alexander H. Tullo ...

“Pentachlorophenol production in South Carolina would harm workers, poison the surrounding environment, and set Orangeburg up as a future Superfund site. The rest of the world has already moved ...

The EPA claims that pentachlorophenol poses health risks to workers. Alternative wood preservatives —including chromated arsenicals, copper naphthenate, creosote, and dichloro-octyl ...

It turns pentachlorophenol into the truly nasty tetrachlorobenzoquinone, which you do NOT want to mess with. There are other cases in which enzymes make molecules more toxic, rather than less.

South Carolina lawmakers have introduced legislation that would temporarily ban pentachlorophenol from being made in Orangeburg. The chemical already has been banned worldwide because of its toxicity.

In May 2016, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality found that the company had exceeded allowable levels of pentachlorophenol in December 2015 and in January 2016. It imposed a fine of ...

The U.S. EPA has canceled the registration for pentachlorophenol, or “Penta,” a wood preservative utilized primarily on utility poles that has been in use for decades. During the registration review ...

Like many manufacturers, Pella used Pentachlorophenol to treat wood. The company previously stored the chemical in underground tanks, which were removed in 1989.

(Beyond Pesticides, September 24, 2014) New York Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, Jr. and State Senator Kenneth LaValle have introduced legislation that will prohibit the future use of utility poles ...

Pentachlorophenol, a well-recognized wood preservative in use for decades, is registered under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). According to EPA, it is used ...

Four days later, National Grid dropped off two 85-foot-long wooden transmission poles laced with pentachlorophenol in Gabrielle Garland's back yard in the town of Clay.

The impact of the US EPA-required phase-outs starting in 2000–2001 of residential uses of the organophosphate (OP) pesticides chlorpyrifos (CPF) and diazinon (DZN) on preschool children's ...