Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 4, 2014. Last week, a United Nations committee of experts recommended the global elimination of the pesticide pentachlorophenol(PCP), widely used in the United States and elsewhere for treatment of wooden utility poles and railroad ties. Scientists cite chemical’s persistence, bioaccumulation, long-range transport, and PCP’s toxic impacts in recommending it being listed in the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, an international treaty established to safeguard human and environmental health from highly hazardous chemicals. The…
