General Electric should pay $22B to clean up polluted Hudson, group says
Source: https://nypost.com/, April 19, 2022
By: Ariel Zilber
General Electric should foot the bill for the estimated $22 billion it would cost to rehabilitate a 200-mile-long stretch of the Hudson River due to the company’s decades-long contamination of the New York state waterway, according to an environmental group.
Scenic Hudson, the Hudson Valley-based nongovernmental organization, released a report that points the finger at GE for “dump[ing] millions of pounds of toxic PCBs into” the river between 1947 and 1977. Read more.