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...what also gets Immelt pumped is talking about the environment in a way no GE chief has before, certainly not his predecessor, "Neutron Jack" Welch, who ran the company with a brass-knuckles approach to the bottom line. Welch had a testy relationship with greens, notably over cleaning the Hudson River of PCBs, a toxic chemical GE dumped, legally, for decades before the practice was banned in 1977. Since Welch retired in 2001, however, Immelt has been remaking GE. He recently announced a restructuring, paring 11 operating divisions to six. He has pruned slow-growth businesses like insurance and loaded...
...some cases without adding new pollution controls (a federal appeals court last month upheld the revised regulations). GE is currently challenging enforcement provisions of the Superfund law, also via Tribe. The company bears at least partial responsibility for 87 Superfund sites around the country--a stretch of the Hudson River being the most famous--a legacy of its industrial past. If GE wins its case, the Superfund law would be gutted, contends Kit Kennedy, a lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council. GE, she says, would have "infinite opportunities for legal tangles and delays before a cleanup order could...
...more serious ambition undermines the domestic drama that War of the Worlds also wants to be. In a land with millions of humans vaporized by alien rays, with the Hudson River turned into the Styx, awash in corpses--in such a world, the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans. Yet we are meant to care for Ray (Cruise), his teenage son (Justin Chatwin) and young daughter (Dakota Fanning)--natural antagonists forced together by disaster. How do three members of a broken family behave during an alien invasion? Exactly the way they...
...last few weeks were particularly special; in the Hudson valley, he and Danny caught, cleaned, and cooked a fish dinner the weekend after we graduated, they paddled around in an inflatable kayak, and with me and Lindsey, they sat outside listening to music, drinking the odd Corona, and chatting. We called it “Beach Party ’05” (“Thanksgiving Road Trip ’04” was our drive home for Thanksgiving). Last week, Paul wandered lower Manhattan with Steve, and planned to prep Lindsey for JV basketball tryouts. Everything...
...Boss Tweed's New York. The first male Morrison in the U.S. walks off the boat in 1870 and is put right to work sandhogging for 75 a day plus three hots and a cot. He soon discovers that he is restricted to the construction camp because the nearby Hudson River town of Beacon, N.Y., does not want muddy foreigners on its streets. Later Morrisons dig water tunnels in the Bronx. Owney's granduncle Jack stays above ground to work as a messenger for an influential Irish lawyer. One of Jack's jobs is to deliver expense money to William...