A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit from New York state against the federal Environmental Protection Agency over its 2019 decision that General Electric had completed a Hudson River dredging remediation project.
The Times Union of Albany reported U.S. District Court Judge David Hurd said the state’s suit came too late in the process and was “based on improper theories.”
The EPA in April 2019 had issued a certificate of completion to Boston-based GE in connection to a project to remove polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, from the river sediment.
PCBs, used as coolants and lubricants in electrical equipment, were banned in 1977, but prior to that GE factories had discharged
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