Barbara Reina reports in the Times Union that the environmental activist group Scenic Hudson is pushing state and federal officials to complete the Natural Resource Damage Assessment for the Hudson River, after General Electric dumped highly carcinogenic chemical compounds known as PCBs into the waterway. GE has spent almost $2 billion taking about 1.3 million pounds of PCBs from the Hudson River. “They’ve been working on this assessment for 20 years,” said Hayley Carlock, Scenic Hudson’s director of environmental advocacy and legal affairs. “We are having conversations with federal and state trustees over the next few weeks about the report and how it may be informing their thinking.” About 18 months ago the environmental group released a report estimating that GE's damage to the Hudson River from carcinogenic PCBs cost $11.4 billion. Scenic Hudson wants to exert leverage on Gov. Kathy Hochul “to bring these parties together, sit down with GE, resolve this and give the people a sense of relative optimism about the recovery of the river,” said Carlock. Read more about this story in the Times Union.