[CPEO-BIF] New Bedford Harbor (Massachusetts) settlement questioned

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Groups question New Bedford harbor cleanup deal
Say settlement may not be enough to scrub harbor

By Beth Daley
Boston Globe
October 16, 2012

A recent landmark Superfund settle ment in New Bedford may not be  
enough to scrub all the probable human carcinogens from the toxic  
harbor, local environmental groups warn.

The federal government negotiated a $366 million cash settlement last  
week with the owners of a former electronics plant that leaked tons  
of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, into the Acushnet River and  
harbor. The money, US Environmental Protection Agency officials say,  
will provide the bulk of funding to clean the harbor within seven years.

While most of the reaction to the settlement has been positive, two  
local groups that have followed the saga of New England’s oldest and  
largest Superfund site are reviving longstanding complaints that the  
cleanup plan still leaves too high levels of PCBs in parts of the  
harbor.


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For the entire article, see
http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/10/15/environmental-groups-warn- 
superfund-settlement-may-not-enough-clean-new-bedford-harbor/ 
L3ImlXZSKDoJlGQgngw9WJ/story.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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