PCBs

GE Agrees to Analyze Risks from Additional Hudson River PCBs

Allison Dunne — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:01:25 +0000

General Electric has agreed to analyze its potential liability in relation to recently-discovered PCBs in the upper Hudson River. GE will soon resume its remediation of PCBs it discharged into the Hudson decades ago, and at least one environmental group hopes the company will incorporate the additional dredging this year.

Company Offers Technology to Aid in Housatonic PCB Cleanup

Lucas Willard — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:24:09 +0000

As state and federal officials are still working with GE on a plan to clean PCBs from the Housatonic River in the Berkshires, local activists are searching for new technologies to lessen the impact on the surrounding ecosystem. WAMC’s Berkshire Bureau Chief Lucas Willard reports…

In an event yesterday evening sponsored by local environmental groups and hosted by the Housatonic River Initiative, company BioTech Restorations presented new technologies they’ve been developing to remove harmful chemicals from contaminated soil.

PCB Removal in Pittsfield Site to Begin

Lucas Willard — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:39:22 +0000

Beginning next week, General Electric will be begin work on removing PCBs from Pittsfield’s Silver Lake. WAMC’s Berkshire Bureau Chief Lucas Willard…

Dredging Set to Start in Polluted Onondaga Lake

Tristan O'Neill — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 15:00:00 +0000

New York State environmental officials say dredging and capping pollution in Onondaga Lake will begin this summer. WAMC’s Tristan O’Neill reports…

The work is part of a $451 million project at the Superfund site, where contamination has already been targeted with cleanups at industrial sites and improved wastewater treatment.

Decades of industrial activity poured mercury and other metals along with solvents and PCBs into the lake northwest of Syracuse.

EPA Will Take Another Month for Hudson PCB Review

Dave Lucas — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:51:13 +0000

Federal officials reviewing the massive cleanup of PCBs from the upper Hudson River will take another month before finishing their report. WAMC’s Dave Lucas reports…

The federal Environmental Protection Agency was originally scheduled to finish the review by the end of this month. But the agency decided to extend the study through the end of May after calls for a more lengthy review from local congressional representatives and environmentalists.

Two years of Hudson dredging have been completed and crews will be back on the river soon for a third season