Word: hudsons
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Hardly, it 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...
...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...
Perhaps the Hudson. If the dredging announced last week goes ahead--no sure thing, since the program will proceed in stages and can be shut down if it doesn't yield the desired results--will the river get better? Dredging even a small patch of riverbed can be a messy job, one that could merely stir up buried PCBs. Proponents argue that the remaining PCBs in the river have to go, and that when they do, the risk of cancer they carry will vanish with them. The EPA's research is on the side of the greens, but only when...
...bring goo things to life! Loses war with EPA; must clean up Hudson River sludge
...ordered that the Hudson River be dredged...