What’s happening right now in Phase 2 of GE’s PCB Remedial Dredging of the Hudson River—the largest Superfund site in the US? Find out, and learn about other Hudson River issues, threats and opportunities with Clearwater’s Environmental Action Director Manna Jo Greene.
“This presentation at Beczak Environmental Education Center is very timely because there are still 136 acres of PCB surface contaminated sediment outside the area delineated for dredging that need to be addressed,”
says Greene. “Although we have made a lot of progress including the PCB remediation in the upper Hudson, the River is still in danger from Indian Point leaks, the proposed Rockland desalination plant and other threats. Despite our best efforts, Hudson River fish are still in decline, so there is still much to do.”
Clearwater, an environmental education organization started by Pete and Toshi Seeger, gained national recognition for its activism starting in the 1970s to force a cleanup of PCB contamination of the Hudson caused by GE
and other companies. They continue to be actively involved in the PCB clean up.
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