Editing Polychlorinated biphenyl (section)

====New York====
[[Pollution of the Hudson River]] is largely due to dumping of PCBs by [[General Electric]] from 1947 to 1977. GE dumped an estimated 1.3 million pounds of PCBs into the Hudson River during these years. The PCBs came from the company's two capacitor manufacturing plants at [[Hudson Falls, New York|Hudson Falls]] and [[Fort Edward (town), New York|Fort Edward]], New York. This pollution caused a range of harmful effects to wildlife and people who eat fish from the river or drink the water.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hudson River Cleanup |publisher=EPA |url=https://www.epa.gov/hudsonriverpcbs/hudson-river-cleanup |date=2020-08-25}}</ref> In 1984, EPA declared a 200-mile (320&nbsp;km) stretch of the river, from Hudson Falls to New York City, to be a Superfund site requiring cleanup.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hudson River PCBs Superfund Site |url=https://www.epa.gov/superfund/superfund-success-stories-epa-region-2#hudson |website=Superfund Success Stories: EPA Region 2 |date=2018-06-04 |publisher=EPA}}</ref> Extensive remediation actions on the river began in the 1970s with the implementation of [[Clean Water Act#Point sources|wastewater discharge permits]] and consequent control or reduction of wastewater discharges, and sediment removal operations, which have continued into the 21st century.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/77105.html |title=How is the Hudson Doing? |website=Hudson River Estuary Program |publisher=New York State Department of Environmental Conservation |location=Albany, NY |access-date=2020-10-15 |archive-date=2017-11-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171119075142/http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/77105.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[Love Canal]] is a neighborhood in [[Niagara Falls, New York|Niagara Falls]], New York, that was heavily contaminated with toxic waste including PCBs.<ref>{{cite magazine | vauthors = Brown MH |title=Love Canal and the Poisoning of America |journal=The Atlantic |date=December 1979 |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1979/12/love-canal-and-the-poisoning-of-america/376297/}}</ref> [[Eighteen Mile Creek (Niagara County)|Eighteen Mile Creek]] in [[Lockport (town), New York|Lockport]], New York, is an EPA Superfund site for PCBs contamination.<ref>{{cite web |title= Superfund Site: Eighteen Mile Creek, Lockport, NY |url= http://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0206456 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170306235101/http://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0206456 | archive-date = 6 March 2017 |website=Superfund Program |publisher=EPA}}</ref>

PCB pollution at the [[Government Plaza, Binghamton|State Office Building]] in [[Binghamton, New York|Binghamton]] was responsible for what is now considered to be the first indoor environmental disaster in the United States.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://nypost.com/2011/08/07/former-ny-governor-hugh-carey-dead-at-92/ | title = Former NY governor Hugh Carey dead at 92 | work = New York Post | date = 7 August 2011 }}</ref> In 1981, a transformer explosion in the basement spewed PCBs throughout the entire 18-story building.<ref>{{cite report | title = Spill closes offices | work = Syracuse Herald-Journal | date = 5 February 1981 | page = D1 }}</ref> The contamination was so severe that cleanup efforts kept the building closed for 13 years.<ref>{{cite web | title = State Building Finally Reopens in Binghamton | url = https://buffalonews.com/news/state-building-finally-reopens-in-binghamton/article_fc156754-8eee-5d3a-9b79-e1f791b85250.html | work = The Buffalo News | date = 12 October 1994 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | vauthors = Steinberg J | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/11/nyregion/13-year-cleaning-job-after-53-million-17-million-state-building-finally-declared.html?pagewanted=1 | title = The 13-Year Cleaning Job; After $53 Million, a $17 Million State Building Finally Is Declared Safe From Toxins | work = New York Times | date = 11 October 1994 }}</ref>