Proceedings from the 8th International PCB Workshop in Woods Hole, MA, were released in the February 2016 issue of Environmental Science and Pollution Research. The conference was entitled "PCBs in Schools, Exposures, Effects, Remediation and Regulation."

The University of Iowa Superfund Research Program (ISRP) has received a five-year renewal of funding from the National Institute of Environmental Health. Based at the UI College of Public Health since 2005, the ISRP is a joint endeavor involving basic, mechanistic, and applied research projects in biomedical and environmental research areas addressing semivolatile polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).

The Iowa Superfund Research Program was well represented at the National Superfund Research Program Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in November 2015.

In the October 6, 2015, issue of Environmental Science and Technology, four researchers from the University of Iowa Superfund Research Program reported on an inventory of PCB stocks and emissions for Chicago, Illinois.

University of Iowa researchers have found a type of grass that was once a staple of the American prairie can remove soil laden with PCBs, toxic chemicals once used for cooling and other industrial purposes.