Analytes included CPF and DZN; pentachlorophenol (PCP); 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D); the CPF metabolite 3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinol (TCP); and the DZN metabolite 2-isopropyl-6-methyl-4 ...

Not many chemicals are up to the challenge. About half the wood poles in the US are treated with pentachlorophenol, known as “penta” in the trade. Penta is “cheap, easy, and effective ...

Gulbrandsen Chemicals Inc., of Orangeburg, plans to begin producing pentachlorophenol when North America’s only maker of the material closes a factory in Mexico next year. Mexican government ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to ban all uses of the wood preservative pentachlorophenol. The decision comes after the sole producer of the chemical in North America ...

Democratic Reps. Russell Ott and Gilda Cobb Hunter introduced legislation Tuesday to block production of pentachlorophenol at Gulbrandsen Chemicals while the state investigates the danger of ...

(Beyond Pesticides, March 9, 2021) Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced an interim decision to cancel of one of the most hazardous pesticides still used in the United States, ...

UPDATE: The same day Beyond Pesticides published this piece, Gulbrandsen Chemicals announced it would drop its effort to produce pentachlorophenol in Orangeburg, SC, according to The State newspaper. ...

(Patrick Butler/Radio-Canada) The provincial government has approved Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro's proposal, with conditions, to reuse electrical poles that were treated with pentachlorophenol ...

The 400 poles are treated with pentachlorophenol, but only very small amounts of the chemical, officials said. Pentachlorophenol is a pesticide and wood preservative. Numerous officials toured the ...

N.L. Hydro hopes to keep the poles, despite the fact they are coated with a toxic substance called pentachlorophenol (PCP), for future emergency repairs elsewhere in its transmission system.