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Apr 10 2009

THE HOUSATONIC RIVER WINS

STATE GRANTS THE HOUSATONIC ACEC STATUS Save The Housatonic is proud to announce that 13 miles of the Housatonic River and the land that surrounds it have been declared an Area of Critical Environmental Concern. The designation covers a total of 12,276 acres of river, floodplain, and upland. On March 31, 2009 Massachusetts Energy and […]

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Jul 18 2008

Save the Housatonic!

Until recently, General Electric (GE) had a major industrial facility in Pittsfield, the largest city in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. At its Pittsfield site along the Housatonic River, from the mid-1930s to the mid 1970s, GE used the man-made toxic chemical polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) as an insulating fluid in its electrical transformers. PCBs are poisonous to […]

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