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Toxic pollutant banned by the EPA
Answer for the clue "Toxic pollutant banned by the EPA ", 3 letters:
pcb
Alternative clues for the word pcb
- Banned pollutant, for short
- EPA-banned chemical
- Toxic environmental pollutant, for short
- Hudson River pollutant, initially
- Pollutant banned in the U.S. in 1979
- Chem. pollutant banned in 1979
- E.P.A.-proscribed compound, for short
- Toxic chem
- Toxic pollutant banned since the 1970s
- Chem. source of the Hudson's River's Superfund site status
Usage examples of pcb.
Maybe there was some really big, old shark that had been hanging out in the Harbor for decades, eating bottom fish, building up incredibly high levels of bioconcentrated PCBs.
The level of PCBs in these samples was no different from those taken anywhere else in the Harbor.
You heard from Christopher that I was hanging out on Spectacle Island, and you were afraid that I'd discover the old Basco transformers leaking PCBs there.
One of the things I said [at the banquet] was that the General Electric Company that loaded up the Hudson River with PCBs sure as hell wasn't the company that I worked for.
Computers need electrical transformers, some of which are made with PCBs that like to vaporize and ooze out of a computer's ventilation slots, causing miscarriages and other foul omens.