Degrading lead-covered cables hang above bus stops and schools, and sit underwater, in many parts of the US, The Wall Street Journal found.kampee patisena/Getty The Journal estimates about 2,000 ...

The lawsuits draw on reporting from the Wall Street Journal asserting that lead-sheathed cables that various telecom companies inherited from Bell System are leaching lead into the environment.

WSJ (Wall Street Journal) prepared some (paywalled) outstanding journalism. WSJ tested for lead around older lead-sheathed cables. High lead was strongly linked to old lead-sheathed cables.

BEVERLY, Mass., July 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In response to recent media reporting in the United States, ATN International, Inc. (“ATN” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: ATNI), completed a preliminary ...

SPRINGFIELD — U.S. Sen. Edward J. Markey D-Mass., wants to know where Verizon’s old lead-sheathed telephone cables are and what the legacy phone company is doing to protect its workers and the public.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – In a major milestone for efforts to Keep Tahoe Blue, the League to Save Lake Tahoe announced that the removal of lead-sheathed telecommunication cables from below Lake Tahoe ...

WAPPINGERS FALLS — The state gave the go-ahead for a Wappingers Falls park to reopen after it was temporarily closed for environmental tests based on reports that lead contained in nearby ...

NEW YORK, July 17 (Reuters) - Shares of AT&T Inc (T.N), opens new tab fell nearly 7% to hit their lowest level in thirty years on Monday, after analysts downgraded the stock following a news report ...

The Centre has declined to ban Indian power and transmission utilities from using high-voltage power cables containing toxic chemical — lead — while laying the underground transmission lines. The CII ...

The Environmental Protection Agency sent letters requesting telecom companies to meet with the agency about their lead-sheathed phone cables, in a new phase of an investigation in the EPA’s efforts to ...