A federal judge last week approved a massive Hudson River cleanup that could ultimately require General Electric to spend upwards of $700 million to dredge PCBs from the river. In apparently the first judicial decision to address the EPA’s discretion in drawing boundaries of a Superfund location, Northern District of New York Judge David N. Hurd upheld the EPA’s authority and overruled a small town’s objection that the EPA improperly deemed the location as “on-site” and thus not bound by local regulations.
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Posted on Tuesday, November 7th, 2006. Filed under: Business Law, Law Misc
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