General Electrics: Corporate Irresponsibility

For years, General Electric has been dumping Polychlorinated biphenyls in the Hudson River, and then spent decades arguing that it couldn't clean it up, until EPA's enforced authority to ensure a full cleanup under federal law. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a mixture of up to 209 individual chlorinated chemicals which are no longer produced in the United States, but are still found in the environment. Nobody knows how much contamination is in the river, so its understandable on why (GE) would want to still fight in the courts to stop or weaken the EPA's enforement, even so they are making an effort to clean up the Hudson River.