Sentences with phrase «pcb dredging»

For more background on today's events and the context, read my article on the PCB dredging in The Times, and the 1996 series «A River Reclaimed» (Bill's Part 1 and my Part 2) that I was lucky enough to write with William K. Stevens, my predecessor on the environment beat.

Due to pollution of the Hudson River caused by GE's PCB dredging operations, Saratoga County had to move its plant to the town of Moreau, in the northern portion of the county.

Protect the environment, protect the Hudson River - Governor Cuomo and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman will take immediate action to sue the federal government if the Environmental Protection Agency deems the Hudson River PCB dredging complete.

Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Judith Enck speaks during a news conference about the recently restarted PCB dredging project on the Hudson River in Fort Edward, N.Y., in 2011.

I fully support the PCB dredging project and further expect GE to be held accountable in the Natural Resource Damage claim that has been filed by the government and which I also fully support.

DEC officials dismissed her after it came to light that the truck had been hired by a General Electric contractor to cater an event on GE's Niskayuna campus; agency officials said DEC's work on GE's PCB dredging project on the Hudson should have raised a red flag for Loguidice.

The EPA has put its review of whether Hudson River PCB dredging has been successful on hold while it evaluates new information from New York state, EPA Regional Administrator Pete Lopez said.

ALBANY — Sometime after PCB dredges hit the Hudson River again next spring, officials at the state Canal Corp. hope to be part of the cleanup.

Not exact matches

Fort Edward Supervisor Mitch Suprenant said Cuomo's statement convinced him that GE should do more dredging to remove the PCBs.

The state has been pushing EPA to expand its review of the dredging project, which was done by General Electric Co., to include the impact of PCB contamination on the river south of Albany.

The state pointed to data collected by the DEC that shows greater amounts of PCBs in the river than federal officials had initially projected as part of the dredging project.

Enck said highlights of her seven years with the EPA included helping oversee General Electric Co.'s historic dredging of more than 300,000 pounds of PCBs from a 40 - mile stretch of the upper Hudson River, which is the nation's largest Superfund site.

d) «Should General Electric Co. have been forced to dredge the Hudson River to remove PCBs it deposited there before the dumping was made illegal?»

General Electric reached an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to dredge PCB - laden sediment from the river between Troy and Fort Edward, a roughly 40 - mile stretch.

«While we are grateful that GE has fully met the requirements of Phase 2 dredging, we are deeply concerned by reports from federal, state and independent natural resource scientists indicating that significant PCB «hot spots» will remain after the company's dredging operations shut down later this year.»

What we found is that there are significant sections of the former dredging project that still have very high levels of PCBs,» Seggos says.

We would like to see Governor Cuomo disclose the details of his offer to GE, especially because GE is one of his biggest political contributors and there is a major controversy over GE's refusal to continue dredging the toxic PCB's it dumped into the Hudson north of Albany.

Cuomo pushed an environmental agenda that included demanding the EPA pursue further dredging of PCBs from the Hudson River and environs, rejection of the Constitution Pipeline to transport fracked gas from Pennsylvania, and subsidies for Upstate nuclear power plants.

Federal regulators have approved General Electric's plan to dismantle a Hudson River PCB cleanup plant used during six years of dredging, which concluded this fall.

The Environmental Protection Agency has announced that dredging of the upper Hudson River to remove PCB's will resume Wednesday.

The Hudson River PCB Superfund dredging project has been a success.

The lawmakers, led by Democratic Sen. Brad Hoylman of Manhattan, want Cuomo to work with G.E. to continue cleaning up the river after the company finishes its six - year dredging project to remove PCBs on a 40 - mile stretch of the river.

Dozens of state legislators, most of them Democrats, have called on GE to extend dredging operations in the upper Hudson River near two shuttered capacitor plants in Fort Edward, which dumped over a million pounds of PCBs in the river from the 1940s through the 1970s.

While GE and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency deserve credit for the partial cleanup of some PCB hotspots completed last fall, the unholy alliance of polluter and regulator in fending off calls for additional dredging is the major obstacle to a healthy river and economic revitalization of upriver community waterfronts.

The call for more cleanup on the Hudson comes about a year after GE dismantled its PCB processing site in Fort Edward, even though environmental groups wanted it to remain in place in case further dredging was needed.

Because of PCBs in the canal, the Canal Corp. hasn't dredged the channel since 1980.

On Tuesday, Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos urged Judith Enck, regional administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to drastically beef up her plans to study remaining PCB toxicity levels in the river in the aftermath of a six - year dredging project by General Electric Co..

But the federal Superfund declaration elevates the government response to the situation, including the weight of a federal cleanup program that has been in place for more than 30 years and led to cleanups of severely polluted sites around the country, including dredging PCBs from the Hudson River.

The announcements Thursday marked the sixth and final season of dredging PCB - contaminated sediments from the bottom of a 40 - mile stretch of the upper Hudson between Fort Edward and Troy.

An example is the ongoing SuperFund project to dredge the upper Hudson River to remove PCBs which has already cost nearly US$ 1 billion.

Pure Color of the Hudson (after Rodchenko) Remediated polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) mud obtained from General Electric dredging site, processed waste coal from power plants in the Hudson Valley on Sintra, in Matthew Friday's Space as Substance: Beyond the Scenic Hudson, 2015.

Judging from some draft evaluations prepared by the Environmental Protection Agency and General Electric, the plan for dredging the Hudson River for PCBs faces some likely adjustments.

After making a 200 - mile (Prius) «commute» at dawn on Friday to Fort Edward, N.Y., I joined a throng of 100 or so people who gathered to watch as a clamshell dredge scooped the first five cubic yards of PCB - tainted mud from the bed of the Hudson River.

[UPDATE, 8/11: The dredging was suspended and then resumed after readings showed an uptick in PCB levels.]

General Electric in 2002 dropped its decadeslong resistance to efforts by environmental agencies and campaigners to force the dredging of PCB hot spots from the Hudson River.

The Thompson Island Pool, slated for dredging later this spring, is the hottest hot spot, he said, explaining that the pool alone is thought to contribute perhaps 440 pounds of PCB's per year to waters downriver --- a huge amount for a chemical that is a health concern in traces of a few parts per million in fish.

GE has committed itself only to the first phase of the cleanup, during which 22 tons of PCBs will be dredged from «hot spots» around Fort Edward and nearby Hudson Falls, where GE plants discharged the chemicals (used to make capacitors) from 1946 to 1976.

Every aspect of this clean - up has GE's fingerprints on it, including the dredging technology, the level of preventative measures, and the PCB disposal methods.

Environmentalists understand the clean - up of PCBs in the Hudson is a massive, complex undertaking, and that minor stoppages of the dredging can be expected, and the issues triggering them will be quickly identified and resolved.

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY — The three leading environmental advocacy organizations in the Hudson Valley — Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Riverkeeper and Scenic Hudson — applauded today the decision by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to resume dredging of PCBs around Fort Edward, NY with enhanced engineering controls at dredging locations to reduce spillage of material back into the river and re-suspension of PCBs.

Based on a NOAA analysis indicating that significantly greater amounts of PCBs remain in the Upper Hudson River than the EPA anticipated following the six years of dredging GE completed in 2015, both NOAA and the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) earlier called on the EPA to commit to a resumption of the cleanup.

The hope now, environmental officials say, is that dredging 98 percent of the PCBs out of hot spots in the river like the Thompson Island Pool will greatly speed what has been a slow natural decline in levels of the chemicals in striped bass and other fish species.

In my last blog, I detailed major missteps of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in its oversight of the Hudson River Superfund cleanup of toxic PCBs, including allowing the polluter, General Electric, to decommission its massive dredging operations before the agency determined whether the cleanup had met its goals, and ignoring pleas from other federal agencies and evidence that more dredging is needed to restore the river's health.