The state’s lawsuit is one development in the effort to remove approximately 1.3 million pounds of PCBs dumped by GE’s capacitor plants in Fort Edward and Hudson Falls into the Hudson River between the 1940s and 1970s.Ī hearing on EPA and GE’s motion to dismiss the state’s case and related motions is scheduled for June 15 in Utica. The certificate was issued in April 2019, and the lawsuit was filed in August last year. That lawsuit focuses on the agency’s decision to issue a “certificate of completion” to General Electric after dredging to remove a portion of PCBs in the sediment concluded. The state’s lawsuit challenging EPA’s position on the Hudson River cleanup is pending in federal court. “We need at least eight years of data post-dredging to be confident in a statistical trend,” EPA’s Gary Klawinski said during the discussion. The EPA maintains that more data is needed before a conclusion can be made. “You can’t wait eight years to see if we hit our five-year targets.” “The probability of hitting five-year target gets less likely,” said Riverkeeper’s Richard Webster during the meeting, referring to one of the time frames outlined in the dredging agreement.
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