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Gillibrand wants more PCBs out of river

Sep 22, 2016 12:03 am
The Daily Freeman reports that New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand wants the Environmental Protection Agency to reverse the decision to stop dredging the Hudson River of polychlorinated biphenyl, or PCBs. Last year General Electric ended its six-year, $1.5 billion work to remove 2.75 million cubic yards of PCB-contaminated sediment under a federal Superfund project. Last month New York officials said around 35 percent of the PCBs discharged from factories north of Albany weren’t removed from the river, as GE stopped dredging efforts. An EPA official says they will respond to Gillibrand's letter directly. Read the full story in The Daily Freeman.