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An examination of the legal and regulatory implications around the investigations into lead-covered cables in various parts of the country including Wappingers Falls, New York—an investigation that ...

KINGSTON, N.Y.— U.S. Rep. Pat Ryan, D-Gardiner, demanded Friday that CEOs of the largest telecommunications companies in the country testify in Congress after the Wall Street Journal reported that ...

New York (CNN) — New York Democratic Congressman Pat Ryan on Thursday urged industry trade group USTelecom, Verizon and AT&T to remove toxic lead cables that the Wall Street Journal reported the ...

Verizon has defeated a lawsuit filed by a utility pole worker who claims that lead cables made him sick. A federal judge on Friday granted Verizon’s motion to dismiss the complaint, which sought class ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Abandoned telephone cables are contaminating soil and waterways throughout the U.S. with toxic lead, according to an in-depth ...

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 ...

The U.S. Justice Department and EPA are investigating possible health and environmental issues from lead cables used by AT&T and Verizon. AT&T faces the biggest risk as it has the most lead cables in ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Kate Linebaugh: On a freezing march morning in Northern California, two divers ...

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 ...

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 ...