... governments met in Sweden and adopted an international treatyaimed at restricting and ultimately eliminating their production, use, release and storage. The treaty, called the Stockholm Convention ... 2025 to phase out “in-place equipment” such aselectrical transformers and capacitators containing PCBs, as long as the equipment is main-tained in a way that prevents leaks. It grants them another ... that theyare literally everywhere in the world, even in the Arctic, Antarctica, and remote Pacific islands.Their attraction to fatty tissue, known as "bioaccumulation", means that...