(NY) The New York Times – A floating dredge lowered a clamshell bucket to the bottom of the Hudson River on Friday and pulled up a load of muck contaminated with PCBs – oily industrial lubricants that General Electric spent decades dumping into the river, and decades more fighting to keep there.
It was a big moment – the beginning, after years of legal, scientific and political wrangling, of one of the costliest and most complicated environmental cleanups in American history. It was testimony to the power of sustained advocacy, and a tribute to everyone – private citizens, environmental groups, scientists, politicians from both parties – who had fought to make it happen. More