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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of abandoned telephone cables throughout the US are likely leaching toxic lead into American soil and waterways, an ...

Major U.S. telecom stocks slipped late Thursday as the Environmental Protection Agency called on them to meet about their lead-sheathed phone cables, the WSJ reported. The telecom letters start a new ...

Lake Tahoe's Emerald Bay is one of the sites where telephone cables were recently removed from. Ken Lund via Flickr under CC BY-SA 2.0 Miles of defunct, lead-covered telephone cables have long sat ...

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.

AT&T’s legacy telephone network may have nearly 200,000 miles of lead-covered cables, according to an estimate by AT&T submitted in a court filing. “Based on its records, AT&T estimates that lead-clad ...

CHICOPEE — New York University environmental health professor Jack Caravanos asked U.S. Sen. Ed Markey Monday to read the output of a handheld X-ray Caravanos uses to detect lead in soils. Moments ...

Lead does not break down over time and so accumulates in soil, but not much federal testing or scientific research has focused on the potential risks coming from lead-sheathed telephone cables. READ ...

One parish and two south Louisiana cities have filed a proposed class action lawsuit against two telecom giants accusing them of failing to remove deteriorating lead-wrapped cables that they say are ...

Did you read the article? E: maybe that was too harsh. If it's not clear, lead-sheath means the lead is part of the insulation. These aren't phone lines made of lead instead of copper. The concern is ...

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