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Article: CLINTON AIDE ATTACKS GE OVER PCBS.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- July 10, 1998
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Byline: PAUL ZIELBAUER Staff writer
In the Clinton administration's harshest criticism of the General Electric Co., the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Thursday accused GE of conducting a ``public disinformation'' campaign about the dangers of PCBs in the Hudson River.
EPA Administrator Carol Browner, testifying at a state Assembly hearing on her agency's progress in assessing the dangers of the river's PCBs, also accused the corporation of promoting ``politics at its most cynical'' by deploying legions of Washington D.C.-based lobbyists to water down federal Superfund legislation to clean up toxic wastes.
GE is currently ...