🇺🇸 USA May 14, 2026 · Corey McDonald

Senate lawmakers reconsider ending Vermont’s school PCB testing program

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Senate lawmakers reconsider ending Vermont’s school PCB testing program
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A sign in front of Burlington High School when it was closed due to elevated levels of PCB’s in October 2020. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger



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House lawmakers began this legislative session intent on ending a controversial (and expensive) testing program for polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCB, in Vermont schools. Now, Senate lawmakers are thinking otherwise.



H.542, a bill sponsored by Rep. Peter Conlon, D-Cornwall, would have ended Vermont’s PCB testing progra

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