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Democrats ask for Rensselaer County water documents

Nov 04, 2016 12:03 am
Matthew Hamilton reports in The Albany Times-Union a group of Democrats are asking the State Senate's Republican majority to release documents turned over by the alleged polluters in Hoosick Falls and Petersburgh. In the past year the water in those Rensselaer County towns was determined to be poisoned by perfluorooctanoic acid, with much finger-pointing on the cause and the delay in notifying residents. Republicans say they are in the process of reviewing thousands of documents from Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, Taconic Plastics, and Honeywell International, and won't say what they will do with the documents next. State Sen. Brad Hoylman told Politico, "it is bewildering and frustrating to me as the ranking Democrat that we're not holding the polluters' feet to the fire, that we're not following through on the subpoena, that we're not questioning the executives under oath." Read the full story in The Albany Times-Union.