![]() ![]() Scenic Hudson spokesman Rich Schiafo said his organization's "objective, clearly thought out" poll avoided the word dredging because GE's "skillful" campaign to discredit dredging might have skewed the poll results. ![]() and let the river continue to clean itself naturally. In a question about how best to get rid of PCBs, the GE/Zogby poll included this phrase: ". It included in one question the EPA's finding that eating Hudson fish is a cancer risk.Īlso in November, GE commissioned a Zogby International poll, which showed 59 percent of those surveyed preferring natural recovery, with monitoring, while 27 percent supported dredging. The Marist poll was underwritten by Scenic Hudson. In November, a poll by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion found 84 percent of 964 registered voters from Albany to Manhattan in favor of removing the PCBs, with 10 percent opposed. ![]() The Record/Times Union poll was conducted by the Siena College Research Institute and is the first done absent any agenda. Its release precedes two EPA forums this week aimed at soliciting public comment on the dredging proposal. 3, three days before the EPA announced its long-awaited decision on what to do about PCBs in the Hudson. The Record/Times Union poll was finished Dec. That finding runs counter to the position of pro-dredging environmentalists who have been waging a bitter public relations battle against General Electric, whose own publicity campaign says just leave the PCBs where they are and nature will neutralize them. Overall, 50 percent of those polled from Manhattan to about 200 miles north to Washington County said just leave the PCBs where they are - mostly buried in the muck at the bottom of the Hudson above Troy - and let nature's microbes eat them up. Environmental Protection Agency's proposal to force General Electric to pay for a $460 million dredging cleanup of PCBs announced last week. HUDSON RIVER: A poll turns the tables on environmental groups' assertions that the public wants PCBs dredged.īy a 2-1 ratio, 1,200 people surveyed in a Times Herald-Record/Albany Times Union poll up and down the Hudson River say PCBs are a public health risk.īut they don't buy the U.S. ![]()
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