MidHudsonNews [dot] com is reporting the US Environmental Protection Agency has declared the former IBM site in Kingston, now know as Tech City, a Superfund site because of the release of asbestos into the environment. “This has been a long time in the making and will give us a lot of leverage to begin the work we need to do,” said Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan December 18. “[Property owner Alan] Ginsburg, through his actions, has essentially held our county’s real economic development prospects hostage and that is going to end and this is a big step to ending that.” The Ulster County Health Department reached out to the EPA in 2017, about issues around the asbestos abatement underway at the 92-acre site. During the removal process, many piles of debris containing the harmful silicate material were created outdoors. Ginsburg now has until December 30, to respond to the EPA. “I think he is worse than a slumlord,” Ryan said. Read the full story at MidHudsonNews [dot] com.