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GE Agrees to Long-Awaited Hudson River Cleanup

Federal environmental officials and General Electric announce a deal for the long-delayed cleanup of the Hudson River. GE dumped more than a million pounds of PCBs into the river before the federal government banned the substance in 1977. Andrea Bernstein of member station WNYC reports.

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