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One of the Capital Region’s longest-running industrial giants is celebrating hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for clean energy. On Thursday, General Electric showed off how the influx will be felt at its Schenectady plant.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released its third five-year review of the Hudson River cleanup, but did not make a determination on its effectiveness. Environmental advocates contend existing data shows the work performed by General Electric to remove harmful PCBs did not go far enough.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued its draft third five-year review of General Electric’s removal of harmful PCB’s from the Hudson River. The long-awaited report does not make a determination, saying more data is needed.

(Airs 04/19/24 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: State lawmakers start passing parts of the state budget more than two weeks after it was due, we’ll get the President of the Citizens Budget Commission to critique the budget process, and two congressmen seek additional remediation of PCBs from the Hudson River.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to release a third review of General Electric’s removal of harmful PCBs from the Hudson River. Ahead of the report, a bipartisan coalition of New York State lawmakers and environmental advocates are demanding the EPA deem the cleanup incomplete.

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to readdress the cleanup of PCBs from the Hudson River.

Hundreds of unionized General Electric workers from plants around the country are planning to rally Tuesday in Schenectady.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached an agreement with General Electric to study PCB contamination in the Lower Hudson. EPA officials updated members of the Hudson River Community Advisory Group about the plan of action on Wednesday.

Author William Patrick is here to tell us about his new book, "Metrofix: The Combative Comeback of a Company Town." The book shows what went right and what went wrong when General Electric moved most of its businesses out of Schenectady, New York. Between 1960 and 2000, this company town would lose 30,000 residents, and like so many other cities in post-industrial America, faced overwhelming forces that pushed it toward imminent ruin. With historic photos, deeply-researched details, and portraits of some of its most dynamic citizens, "Metrofix" is an inspirational story that shows how hundreds of dedicated citizens pulled their city back from the brink of disaster and did, in fact, change their world.

At an EPA meeting this week, environmental groups lambasted the location of a proposed landfill for toxic materials from the Housatonic River.