http://savethehousatonic.org Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:18:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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, ... http://savethehousatonic.org/?p=385 We need your help now to secure the Upper Housatonic River ACEC! Here are 2 things we need you to do! 1. Sign our online petition. A few powerful people are working behind the scenes to scuttle the nomination of the upper Housatonic River and its surrounding landscape as an Area of ... http://savethehousatonic.org/?p=261 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 ... http://savethehousatonic.org/?p=1