03-26-2023, 06:24 PM
Tiangou wrote:
This is with a company that's ostensibly cooperating with the cleanup.
Yeah, GE has actively deflected responsibility for a good portion of the time as well. I grew up in Pittsfield, MA. There they used to give away PCB contaminated soil as "clean" fill up until th 1970s. It ended up being used as fill on private housing lots, public playgrounds, and I don't recall where else. Once the PCB contamination was revealed as a problem and PCB banned, they delayed responses to landowners for years to run out statute of limitations for lawsuits. GE was dragged kicking and screaming "it wasn't us or not just us" into making an agreement with the EPA on cleanup.