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New York to sue EPA over PCB declaration

May 10, 2019 12:30 pm
MidHudsonNews [dot] com is reporting state Attorney General Letitia James told the Dutchess County Bar Association in Poughkeepsie May 9, that her office is going after the Environmental Protection Agency. James told the audience of lawyers, judges, and community leaders that she will be seeking to overturn a recent EPA declaration that the Hudson River is no longer contaminated by PCBs.  That claim, James said, is refuted by "study after study and test after test" that the river is still polluted with the harmful contaminants, despite what the EPA may have declared. Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro applauded the AG's decision.  "The attorney general is absolutely correct.  The EPA has abandoned its responsibility to the people of the Hudson Valley, the future of the Hudson River Valley and the State of New York is right to take legal action...,” he said. Read the full story at MidHudsonNews [dot] com.v