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Wednesday, August 1, 2001
The federal Environmental Protection Agency has made the wrong decision to proceed with a full scale dredging of the Hudson River. EPA's decision was based on the recommendations of the previous administration, which relied more on politics than sound science and flew in the face of previous administrations, both Democrat and Republican, that rejected dredging PCBs from the Hudson River.
I was hoping that the new administration in Washington would take a fresh look at the dredging issue and take into account the concerns of communities along the upper Hudson and the progress that has been made, just by allowing the river to clean itself.
By going forward with dredging, it is clear the EPA did not take into consideration any of the comments made by the people who live along the river, have seen it come back and oppose dredging. Their lives are going to be the one's most affected by dredging and it's a slap in the face that EPA obviously did not listen to their concerns.
Before EPA begins to dig up the Hudson riverbed, there is still a process that must be followed and likely legal challenges that will have to be resolved by the courts.
As Yogi Berra once said, "it ain't over 'til it's over."
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