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What YOU Can Do!

Web Sites of Interest - Loads of Sites

Articles --

Public companies try to hide environmental debt
E.P.A. Orders G.E. To Dredge Hudson River
A message in this for G.E.? --
Prez says: Hazards of PCB's 'based on solid scientific information.'
PCB mess on the Coosa River -- Sound familiar?
Are NRD lawsuits in G.E.'s future?
Commentary:  Some secret!
Selling deception, the G.E. way
Setting the record straight about legality of G.E.'s PCB discharges
Commentary:Anti-dredgers not supported by science, history or common sense
Commentary: Reality check
Commentary: E.P.A.'s Plan is sound
Did G.E.'s Welch lie to '60 Minutes'?
Prince or Pig: What will Welch's legacy really be?
G.E.'s Jack Welch to appear on CBS' '60 Minutes'
Hudson-Voice.com is now online!
Dredge Match: G.E. vs. E.P.A.
The Matter of Responsibility--G.E.'s Corporate Board
Ex-pols are now G.E. lobbyists
Is G.E. downplaying its own logo?

Newspaper Compilations of Hudson River & PCB-related News Articles

Press Releases & Announcements of Interest

Diagrams and Photos of state-of-the-art environmental dredges

F.Y.I.
>Section 10 of Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1899 --
United States Code TITLE 33, Chapter 9, Section 403
>Section 13 of Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1899 --
United States Code TITLE 33, Chapter 9, Section 407

A Letter from the Editor

Letters to the Editor

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by G. M. Heller
Washington, D.C.
September 12, 2000
In any corporation, the individual members of the corporate board of directors bear ultimate ethical and moral responsibility for a company's decisions and corporate actions. In this case, the individual members of G.E.'s corporate board bear primary and ultimate responsibility for the Company's manner in delaying and avoiding clean-up of the firm's PCB mess in the Hudson River. 

So that you can know who these people are, and where you can contact them to express your views, the following information is provided. 

G.E.'s present (Year 2002) board of directors:
 (listed in alphabetical order)

James I. Cash, Jr., James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Graduate School of Business, Cambridge, Massachusetts; address: c/o Harvard Business School, Soldiers Field, Boston, Massachusetts 02163; telephone: 617.495.6471; e-mail: jcash@hbs.edu.
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Silas S. Cathcart, retired chairman of the board and chief executive officer, Illinois Tool Works, Inc., diversified products, Chicago, Illinois; address: 222 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite # 305, Lake Forest, Illinois 60045; telephone: 847.735.1099.
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Dennis D. Dammerman, vice chairman of the board and executive officer, General Electric Company, Fairfield, Connecticut; chairman, G.E. Capital Services, Fairfield, Connecticut; business address: c/o General Electric Company, 3135 Easton Turnpike, Fairfield, Connecticut 06431; telephone: 203.373.2211; residential address: 1657 Fairfield Beach Road, Fairfield, Connecticut 06430-6522; e-mail: dennis.dammerman@corporate.ge.com.
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Paolo Fresco, chairman of the board, Fiat SpA, automotive and industrial products, Turin, Italy; address: c/o Fiat S.p.A.,Via Nizza 250, Turin, Italy.
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Ann M. Fudge, former president, Kraft’s Maxwell House and Post division, and executive vice president, Kraft Foods, Inc., food products, White Plains, New York.
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Claudio X. Gonzalez, chairman of the board and chief executive officer, Kimberly-Clark de Mexico, S.A. de C.V., Mexico City, and director, Kimberley-Clark Corporation, consumer and paper products; address: c/o Kimberly-Clark de Mexico, S.A. de C.V., Apartado Postal 10-1003, Mexico City DF 11510, Mexico; telephone: 525.282.7300.
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Jeffrey R. Immelt, chairman of the board and chief executive officer, General Electric Company, Fairfield, Connecticut; business address: c/o General Electric Company, 3135 Easton Turnpike, Fairfield, Connecticut 06431; telephone: 203.373.2211; e-mail: jeffrey.immelt@corporate.ge.com..
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Andrea Jung, president and chief executive officer and director, Avon Products, Inc., cosmetics, New York, New York; address: c/o Avon Products, Inc., 1345 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10105; telephone: 212.282.5000; e-mail: andrea.jung@avon.com.
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Kenneth G. Langone, chairman, president and chief executive officer, Invemed Associates, LLC, investment banking and brokerage, New York, New York; address: c/o Invemed Associates Inc., 375 Park Ave, Suite # 2205, New York, New York 10152-0189; telephone: 212.421.2500; e-mail c/o: pam@invemed.com.
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Rochelle B. (Shelly) Lazarus, chairman and chief executive officer, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, advertising, New York, New York; address: c/o Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, Worldwide Plaza, 309 West 49th Street, New York, New York 10019; telephone: 212.237.6629; e-mail: shelly.lazarus@ogilvy.com.
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Scott G. McNealy, chairman and chief executive officer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., network computing solutions, Palo Alto, California; address: c/o Sun Microsystems, Inc., 901 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, California 94303; telephone: 650.960.1300 - ext. 65601; e-mail: ceo@sun.com.
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Gertrude G. Michelson, former senior vice president – external affairs and former director, R.H. Macy & Co., Inc., retailers, New York, New York; address: 151 West 34th Street -- 13th Floor, New York, New York 10001; telephone: 212.494.4312; e-mail c/o: geri.cuiule@fds.com.
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Sam Nunn, former U.S. Senator from the State of Georgia and partner, King & Spalding, law firm, Atlanta, Georgia; address: c/o King & Spalding, 191 Peachtree Street N.E., Suite # 4900, Atlanta, Georgia 30303-1763; telephone: 404.572.4600; e-mail: snunn@kslaw.com.
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Roger S. Penske, chairman of the board, Penske Corp., Penske Motorsports, Inc., Detroit Diesel Corp. and Penske Truck Leasing Corp., and United Auto Group, Inc., transportation and automotive services, Detroit, Michigan; address: c/o Penske Corp., 13400 Outer Drive West, Detroit, Michigan 48239-4001; telephone: 313.592.5001; e-mail: roger.penske@penskecorp.com.
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Frank H. T. Rhodes, president emeritus, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; address: c/o Cornell University, 3104 Snee Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853; telephone: 607.255.6233; e-mail c/o: mjw11@cornell.edu.
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Gary L. Rogers, vice chairman of the board and executive officer, General Electric Company, Fairfield, Connecticut; business address: c/o General Electric Company, 3135 Easton Turnpike, Fairfield, Connecticut 06431; telephone: 203.373.2211; e-mail: gary.rogers@corporate.ge.com.
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Andrew C. Sigler, retired chairman of the board and chief executive officer, Champion International Corporation, paper and forest products, Stamford, Connecticut; address: c/o Champion International Corp., 400 Atlantic Street, Stamford, Connecticut 06921.
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Douglas A. Warner III, chairman of the board, chief executive officer and president, J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc. and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, New York, New York; address: c/o J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc., 60 Wall Street -- 20th Floor, New York, New York 10260; telephone: 212.483.2323; e-mail: warner_d_a@jpmorgan.com.

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Robert C. Wright, vice chairman of the board and executive officer, General Electric Company, Fairfield, Connecticut; president and chief executive officer, National Broadcasting Company, Inc. (a G.E. subsidiary), New York, New York; business address: c/o General Electric Company, 3135 Easton Turnpike, Fairfield, Connecticut 06431; telephone 203.373.2211; residential address: 734 Sasco Hill Road, Fairfield, Connecticut 06430-6392; e-mail: robert.wright@corporate.ge.com.
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"Jack: Straight from the gut,"
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by Donald Sutherland
Environment News Service
February 19, 2002
(This article is reproduced on HudsonWatch.net with permission from the author.)

WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency launched a national campaign in January 2001 to get publicly traded companies to disclose their environmental debts to shareholders as required by regulation. Now, more than a year later, a majority of public companies that have violated federal environmental laws still do not make those disclosures.
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RELEASED: Friday, February 1, 2002
Go to Press Release!

by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
(Reproduced on HudsonWatch.net without permission)
Filed at 4:17 p.m., ET, 
Tuesday, December 4, 2001

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration on Tuesday ordered tons of PCBs removed from New York's upper Hudson River, setting in motion one of the largest dredging operations in the nation's history.
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by G. M. Heller
Washington, D.C.
April 19, 2001
Read the entire text of speeches given today by President Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and EPA Administrator Christine Whitman.  Then decide for yourself whether PCB's should be allowed to remain in the Hudson River environment.
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Read the related articles:
U.S. set to sign chemical treaty
Text: Bush on POP's Treaty

by William H. Brooks
Cumming, Georgia
March 20, 2001
Thought y'all should know that G.E. has left Rome, Georgia and the local Coosa River basin wrecked as well.
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by G. M. Heller
Washington, D.C.
Wednesday, March 14, 2001
A General Electric Company press release just out says the Company's total year 2000 compensation package to Dr. John F. (Jack) Welch came to $76 million - not that there's anything wrong with that.

Not to frighten any shareowners or put a damper on any future CEO's spirits, but that kind of compensation package from this company may simply not be available for too much longer. 
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by Robert L. Henrickson
East Nassau, New York
Thursday, February 8, 2001
To those who were responsible enough to attend the U.S.-E.P.A.'s December hearing in Saratoga, and to become informed on the Hudson River clean-up plan, E.P.A.'s alleged 'dirty little secret' -- at least that's what The Troy Record calls it -- is alas, neither dirty nor a secret.
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by Ken Dufty
Troy, New York
January 23, 2001
General Electric, in its incredibly expensive advertising campaign to convince you to let the Company off the hook for ruining the Hudson River, is employing every nasty trick in the adman's book.  Utterly false does not even describe this misleading advertising campaign by the pros.
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by Peter Lehner
Assistant Attorney General-in-Charge
Environmental Protection Bureau
New York State Attorney General's Office
January 5, 2001
The public debate over dredging toxic PCB's from the Hudson River should not be clouded by misleading assertions concerning the legality of the General Electric Company's discharges of PCB's.
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by Ken Dufty
Troy, New York
December 28, 2000
In the mad dash to carry G.E.’s corporate water on the Hudson River dredging issue, many are parroting the Company’s claims that removing PCB's from the mighty river’s bottom will “devastate” the river community’s economy, and wreak havoc with the wildlife and public health.
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by Robert L. Henrickson 
East Nassau, New York
December 25, 2000
Just when I (mistakenly) thought I'd heard it all, I read Rensselaer County Legislator Keith Hammond's letter (The Advertiser, December 22, 2000) urging Legislative support of a resolution against "...dumping dredged material from the Hudson River on Rensselaer County or surrounding areas, and especially away from any farmland anywhere.".
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by Robert L. Henrickson
East Nassau, New York
December 16, 2000
Having attended the public hearing in Saratoga on December 12^th, I was struck by two things. First, how many people, politicians included, have been blinded by G.E.'s propaganda campaign (or $$$), to a point where they cannot connect with the reality presented in the E.P.A. proposal.
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by G. M. Heller
Washington, D.C.
November 7, 2000
Sitting there attentively on-camera and with the videotape machine running, G.E.'s stellar, most convincing performer, chairman John F. (Jack) Welch looked straight into the eyes of ‘60 Minutes' correspondent Lesley Stahl. 
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by G. M. Heller
Washington, D.C.
October 31, 2000
The following excerpts are taken verbatim from an interview with G.E. chairman John F. (Jack) Welch conducted by '60 Minutes' correspondent Lesley Stahl, and broadcast on the C.B.S. television network on Sunday evening, October 29th, 2000. 
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by G. M. Heller
Washington, D.C. 
October 26, 2000
With just weeks remaining before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is set to issue its big decision regarding the Hudson River, General Electric's chairman, John F. (Jack) Welch, Jr., has made the surprising move to grant an interview to the C.B.S. television news program '60 Minutes'. 
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by Susan Denim and G. M. Heller
Albany, N.Y. and Washington, D.C.
September 12, 2000
General Electric Company probably figures it is better to spend twenty or thirty million bucks (or more -- G.E. won't say just how much, but the group Hudson River Sloop Clearwater estimates G.E. is spending more than $2 million per week) on a radio, television and newspaper ad campaign that will be over and done with in a few months, than spend many hundred millions (or more) over a decade or two to dredge PCB's out of the Hudson River.
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by G. M. Heller
Washington, D.C.
September 23, 2000
So what do these seven Capitol Hill big shot ex-politicians have in common?
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by G. M. Heller
Washington, D.C.
October 4, 2000
The following is one of G.E.'s online advertisements as it appears on the Web sites of two daily newspapers, The Glens Falls Post-Star and The Saratogian .  G.E. fails to display its logo anywhere in the advertisement.
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To read E.P.A.'s press release, Click Here!)
To read G.E.'s press release, Click Here!)
To see Hudson River PCB 'hot-spots' designated for dredging:
Click Here! (An interactive map from Albany Times-Union); or Click Here! (An interactive map from the Times Herald-Record).

If you would like to give your input about any aspects of U.S.E.P.A.'s plan, or about  PCB's, or about General Electric Company's responsibilities, and/or about anything to do with these important Hudson River matters, then express your views to E.P.A..

Public Comments - Important Points
When submitting your comments to U.S.E.P.A., please send to:
     U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
     290 Broadway -- 19^th Floor
     New York, NY  10007-1866

or E-mail to:
      HudsonComment.Region2@epa.gov

Voice your opinion!
In addition to submitting your written comments to E.P.A., there is even more that can be done, and it's easy to do:  Contact your two U.S. Senators.  Contact your U.S. Congressman.  Contact General Electric Company's board of directors.  Contact your local newspaper by writing a letter to the editor.  Contact U.S. President George W. Bush.  Also, contact New York's Governor George Pataki, as well as your State Assemblymember and State Senator. Voice your opinion!  Office addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses are provided by clicking on the respective links above. 

Learn more!
To learn more about the actual condition of the Hudson River--the non-G.E. version of the facts-- please click on this Web site's links to governmental and non-profit environmental organizations, to news stories of interest, as well as to press releases and announcements.  These links will give you the latest information about the Hudson River's present condition, as well as the long-term prospects for the river's recovery using various remediation methods.

Contact E.P.A.and make your voice heard on this important matter.

To read E.P.A.'s press release, Click Here!)
To read G.E.'s press release, Click Here!)
To see Hudson River PCB 'hot-spots' designated for dredging:
Click Here! (An interactive map from Albany Times-Union); or Click Here! (An interactive map from the Times Herald-Record).

Respectfully submitted, 

G. M. Heller 
Washington, D.C. 
(Private citizen, Web domain owner, and
concerned General Electric Company share owner.)
E-mail: editor@hudsonwatch.net

Note: Other than being a share owner in General Electric Company, the owner of this Web site is not affiliated with G.E., nor with any of the governmental or non-profit environmental organizations listed on this Web site.