Legal Opinion
New York Public Interest Research Group v. United States Environmental Protection Agency
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 10, 2003No. 02 Civ. 5130(AKH)PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER PARTIALLY GRANTING AND PARTIALLY DENYING SUMMARY JUDGMENT REGARDING EXEMPTIONS FOUR AND FIVE OF THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT
HELLERSTEIN, District Judge.
From the 1940s until 1977, two electrical capacitor manufacturing plants owned and operated by the General Electric Company (“GE”) discharged over a million pounds of polychlorinated biphenyls (“PCBs”) into the Hudson River. The accumulation of PCBs, which are classified as probable human carcinogens, led the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) to identify the Hudson River as an agency priority and…
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