EPA Orders Largest Environmental Cleanup In U.S. History

EPA orders General Electric Co. to pay $480 million to dredge the Upper Hudson River.

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August 3, 2001, 5:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"The cleanup will last more than five years and involve dredging 2.65 million cubic yards of contaminated sediment along a picturesque 37-mile run of the Hudson River. The riverbed from just north of Albany upstream to Fort Edward was contaminated with PCBs from GE manufacturing plants over several decades."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

FULL STORY: EPA Orders Record PCB Cleanup

Thursday, August 2, 2001 in The Washington Post

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