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...political dream couple hit the rocks last week when the Environmental Protection Agency ordered GE to begin a much debated dredging of the Hudson River for polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), probable carcinogens whose removal will cost GE stockholders $460 million. For 20 years, GE, which dumped the toxins in the river in the first place, had ferociously fought the removal plan, arguing--with the help of up to $60 million worth of ads and political contributions--that doing nothing was the best course. Environmentalists--starved for a flicker of green from the White House--took the order as a sign that...
...turns out. The Hudson River announcement appears to have been the outcome of a political equation that added wobbly poll numbers, a New York Governor's bid for re-election and even a failed candidate for the post of ambassador to Italy--to come up with zero for GE...
...GE has had an uneasy relationship with the Hudson since the 1940s, when it began dumping PCBs--a practice it continued until 1977, when the chemical was banned. Since then, the river has rebounded, with PCB levels in fish falling 90%. Still, any PCBs can be dangerous, and many people--including EPA chief and former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman and New York Governor George Pataki--have argued for dredging a 40-mile stretch of the river north of Albany and sending GE the bill...
...Bush wants to truly alter the public perception of his White House?s environmental stance, he?ll need a more visible fight - news coverage Tuesday of the EPA?s decision was mostly as a local story (with the exception of GE corporate child MSNBC, which gave it high billing) - and maybe even one that Bill Clinton didn?t think of first...
...Energy. As it gave the GE story lead status in Wednesday?s paper, the New York Times almost helpfully put another story atop its business section. "Some Energy Executives Urge U.S. Shift on Global Warming," went the headline, and the gist of the story was that the same energy companies casually vilified as Bush?s corrupters by poll respondents - BP Amoco, Enron, Royal Dutch/Shell - have actually begun making major moves to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions on their own. And they?re wondering when Bush is going to catch...