July 14, 2011 Mickey Friedman The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today signaled its intention to proceed as scheduled with its plans to present cleanup options for the Housatonic River to EPA’s National Remedy Review Board (NRRB). The EPA had recently…
Category: Housatonic River
The PCB Wars: The Commonwealth et al vs. EPA
By Mickey Friedman July 11, 2011 What do Massachusetts Congressman John Olver, Sen. Scott Brown, General Electric, and officials at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs all have in common? Together, they’re doing their best to influence the Environmental…
George Wislocki: Goodbye Berkshire Bank
July 3, 2011 Editor’s Note: The cleanup of the Housatonic River has reached a critical phase. You may remember that in 2000, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the City of Pittsfield negotiated a consent…
Supreme Court: No To GE Challenge of Superfund
Rising Pond, Housatonic, MA – Site of Possible GE PCB Dump In a move that has significant ramifications for the multi-million dollar PCB-cleanups of the Hudson and Housatonic rivers, the United States Supreme Court decided not to hear arguments in…