As General Electric (GE) prepares to decommission its multimillion-dollar infrastructure for the cleanup of toxic PCBs in the Hudson River, upriver and downriver officials and community leaders are joining environmental advocates in ramping up public pressure for GE to address its additional responsibilities related to the cleanup.
Because current cleanup plans only address 65 percent of the PCBs in the Upper Hudson River, if the company shuts down its cleanup operations by next fall as anticipated, it will leave behind significant pollution in the Hudson that could block the river’s recovery and waterfront revitalization plans for generations.