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Discovery News reports on power line study

 

Pollutants Cluster Under Power Lines

http://news.discovery.com/earth/power-lines-contaminants-pcb.html

The original paper was published in Atmospheric Environment Volume 43, Issue 39, December 2009, Pages 6168-6174 doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.09.009

Increased deposition of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) under an AC high-voltage power line

Tomas Öberg and Pasi Peltola  

Power lines generate magnetic fields and corona ions that can potentially interact with atmospheric pollutants.