G.E. Begins to Dredge Hudson for PCBs
source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/16/science/earth/16dredge.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/16/science/earth/16dredge.html?partner...
Twenty-five years after the federal government declared a long stretch of the Hudson River to be a contaminated Superfund site, the cleanup of its chief remaining source of pollution began here Friday with a single scoop of mud extracted by a computer-guided dredge.Twelve dredges are to work round the clock, six days a week, into October, removing sediment laced with the chemicals known as PCBs. Mile-long freight trains running every several days will carry the dried mud to a hazardous-waste landfill in Texas.An estimated 1.3 million pounds of PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, flowed into the upper Hudson from two General Electric factories for three decades before they were banned, in 1977, as a health threat to people and wildlife. In high doses, they have been shown to cause cancer in animals and are listed by federal agencies as a probable human carcinogen.
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rickm8
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keep drinkin your nalgene :p those liars! haha
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rickm8
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nursediesel
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Yeah, I smell law suits and GE bankruptcy in the future.
With the lawyers taking 40-50% for themselves. The lawyers are going green for sure, rightto the bank......
The people down stream will pay for it in other ways for generations.
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nursediesel
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cybexg
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nursediesel:
wait...how are you getting 40-50%.....I thought the suit was from the EPA???? Could you supply more information?
- 4 years ago
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cybexg
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lordsbassman
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It's about time they go green... haha
- 4 years ago
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lordsbassman
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SoundBigfoot
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LOL, 25 years later. Its about time they cleaned that up.
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SoundBigfoot
