General Electric attempts to evade full responsibility for cleaning up more than a million pounds of toxic chemicals (called PCBs) that it dumped in the Hudson River decades ago. These chemicals continue to poison the river's waters and fish.
Under a 2006 settlement with the EPA, GE was legally obligated to complete Phase 1 of the cleanup, which wrapped up last fall and provided valuable lessons for how to complete the cleanup safely and effectively. This fall, EPA will decide on standards to govern the second and final phase of the cleanup, which would begin next spring. Under the terms of the settlement, GE is then required to decide by this end of the year whether to accept full responsibility and finish the job, or to walk away from the settlement and prepare to fight any further enforcement action by EPA.
We are urging the EPA to reject General Electric Company's (GE) recent request to delay yet again the generations-long struggle to restore the environmental and economic health of one of America's most loved river, the Hudson... We strongly believe this is simply another effort by GE to disown full responsibility for its polluted legacy in the Hudson River Valley.
SOURCE:
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/llevine/environmental_groups_thousands.html
Administrator Lisa P. Jackson
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Email jackson.lisap@epa.gov
General Electric attempts to evade full responsibility for cleaning up more than a million pounds of toxic chemicals (called PCBs) that it dumped in the Hudson River decades ago. These chemicals continue to poison the river's waters and fish.
Under a 2006 settlement with the EPA, GE was legally obligated to complete Phase 1 of the cleanup, which wrapped up last fall and provided valuable lessons for how to complete the cleanup safely and effectively. This fall, EPA will decide on standards to govern the second and final phase of the cleanup, which would begin next spring. Under the terms of the settlement, GE is then required to decide by this end of the year whether to accept full responsibility and finish the job, or to walk away from the settlement and prepare to fight any further enforcement action by EPA.
We are urging the EPA to reject General Electric Company's (GE) recent request to delay yet again the generations-long struggle to restore the environmental and economic health of one of America's most loved river, the Hudson... We strongly believe this is simply another effort by GE to disown full responsibility for its polluted legacy in the Hudson River Valley.
