Roger Hannigan Gilson reports in the Times Union that environmental groups Riverkeeper and the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Sierra Club and others say General Electric's cleanup of PCBs in the Hudson River was not as effective as the federal government predicted when they ordered the cleanup. They called the remedial dredging of the Hudson River a failure. The story says, "PCB levels on the river bottom are falling far more slowly than the EPA expected — and the PCB levels in the section of the upper Hudson, closest to the GE plants, actually rose between 2016 and 2021." Between 1947 to 1977 General Electric dumped 1.2 million pounds of the carcinogenic industrial “forever chemicals” that do not naturally break down into the Hudson River near its facilities north of Albany. GE was forced by the federal government to dredge the river bottom north of Troy, completing the cleanup in 2015. The concentrations of PCBs in fish rose between 2020 and 2021, according to a report from the environmental groups analyzing Environmental Protection Agency data. Officials recommend eating just one fish a month from the Hudson River and pregnant or breast-feeding women are not supposed to eat any. EPA spokesperson Larisa W. Romanowski said the agency’s review will be released early next year, “will assist EPA in further understanding how well and how quickly the fish and the river system are recovering.” The state Department of Environmental Conservation said the cleanup had not been adequately completed, but lost a lawsuit against GE in 2021. Last year, GE agreed to study the lower Hudson River for PCBs. Read more about this story in the Times Union.