The GE Factory at Hudson Falls (photo courtesy of the EPA)
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Riverkeeper supports the EPA’s February 2002 decision to proceed with a comprehensive cleanup of New York's PCB contaminated Hudson River. Environmental dredging will remove PCB-contaminated sediments from toxic hot spots in the Upper Hudson River north of Albany, which have been a source of continued pollution since the mid-1940s.
The EPA’s decision recognizes that PCBs are dangerous to human health and the environment and that the Hudson River is not cleaning itself of the PCBs dumped into the Upper Hudson by the General Electric Company: active PCB removal is necessary to safeguard the health of River residents and to allow the River to recover.
GE mounted a massive multi-million dollar public relations campaign against an active cleanup that is not only fiercely anti-democratic but also rooted in deception and self-serving mythology. Despite the EPA decision, our battle is not over. GE continues its efforts to undermine environmental laws and absolve itself of responsibility for the mess it created on the Hudson.
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