PITTSFIELD â Justices in Washington, D.C., will hear in September directly from those for and against a plan to bury PCBs in Lee.
The Environmental Appeals Board has notified attorneys that justices are ready to hold oral arguments in the case, which pits two environmental groups against the Environmental Protection Agency, the General Electric Co. and other parties that supported the plan, revealed in February 2020, to allow the burial of sediments with lower levels of polychlorinated biphenyls in an engineered landfill at a former quarry above the Housatonic River.
The court said it will decide whether to convene the hearing at its headquarters in the William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building off 12th Street or allow it to take place by videoconference.