MILITARY PCB WASTE ARRIVES IN WAKE ISLAND FOR TEMPORARY STORAGE

A controversial shipment of foreign-manufactured polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) waste from U.S. military installations in Japan was unloaded for temporary storage on Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean May 19, according to a Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) spokesperson. The waste is expected to stay on Wake Island for approximately one year while the Defense and State departments, along with EPA, continue to look for an appropriate final treatment facility, the staffer said. The decision to send the waste to Wake Island...