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logo 5/13/2024 12:14:49 AM     
Environmentalists: GE miscounted PCBs in fish 
By Akiko Matsuda CA Source: lohud 9/5/2015
Akiko Matsuda
 Fish in the Hudson River are more contaminated than originally reported, environmentalist say, because General Electric Co. had been miscounting their PCB levels.

But both GE and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency told The Journal News on Friday that the discrepancy in fish sampling had been resolved, and that it would not affect the ongoing PCB cleanup in the Hudson River. PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, are a probable human carcinogen and known to affect the nervous, reproductive and endocrine systems.

Eating fish from the Hudson River is still highly restricted; PCBs become more concentrated as they move up the food chain.
 

Environmental groups demanded immediate action in response to "revelations of flawed fish data and premature dismantling of equipment used in the historic Hudson River PCBs cleanup project," in a letter sent by Riverkeeper, Scenic Hudson and Hudson River Sloop Clearwater to EPA's Region 2 Administrator Judith Enck on Thursday, according to a prepared statement.

GE dumped up to 1.3 million pounds of PCBs in the Hudson between 1947 and 1977. The company has been dredging PCB-contaminated soil from the bottom of the river since 2009 and aims to remove 2.65 million cubic yards of sediment by this fall. Environmentalists and local municipalities want the cleanup to continue beyond that.

  
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