EPA Signs Final Permit For Housatonic Cleanup Plan With Controversial Landfill
3:32 The cleanup plan was brokered between the EPA and corporate polluter General Electric between communities along the river, and would be the first major effort to remediate the Housatonic in decades. Since being announced in February, the 15-year, $576 million plan to remove toxic waste dumped into the river by GE from a plant in Pittsfield over the mid-20th century has prompted protest. “The EPA, GE and town selectmen have conducted secretive backroom negotiation over a two-year period," said county resident C. Mathias, who expressed frustration with the plan during a September virtual...
Source: wamc.org