Yet again. That's two times times in eight months that the U.S. EPA has delayed the cleanup. General Electric contaminated the river, and the U.S. EPA joined forces with GE in a 2002 agremment to clear the PCBs. The project was supposed to commence in 2005. Now the EPA is saying that the first phase of the cleanup, which will only remove ten percent of the muck, will not begin until 2009.

The Poughkeepsie Journal calls the EPA's delay "absurd, outrageous, inconceivable." The paper calls on Rep. Gillibrand (Hudson), Rep. Hall (Dover Plains), and Governor Spitzer to step up to the feds on this issue, since they've all been big supporters of the cleanup. For the record, the EPA says it's still committed to the project but has been forced to postpone movement because of legal battles.