The epa has it all logged right here and everything is on file. No one in Their right mind would buy the schenectady campus. Really good read on how dirty this campus really is. https://www3.epa.gov/region02/waste/geriv725.pdf
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This is not anything that any other large company did. Up until the early 80's many companies were still figuring out the "right thing to do" environmentally as well as protect employees from exposures. Since then GE has worked to better preserve their properties and maintain a high standard of environmental compliance.
As for any clean up and remediation - those standards are dictated by EPA and local environmental agencies. As long as GE and many of the other large companies Honeywell, GM, Pfizer (list can go on and on) comply with the requirements - then clean up has been deemed adequate.
For a perfect example of another site, read this article on how GE handled the Peterborough site.
This plant has been around just about as long as Schenectady and is just over the boarder in Canada.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/05/18/ge-workers-paying-price-for-decades-of-exposure-to-toxic-chemicals-report.html
A 2002 GE-commissioned mortality study found male employees were up to 57 per cent more likely to die of lung cancer than the general population and female workers up to 129 per cent more likely.
Plant workers, who built everything from household appliances to diesel locomotive engines and fuel cells for nuclear reactors, were exposed to more than 3,000 toxic chemicals, including at least 40 known or suspected to cause cancer, at levels hundreds of times higher than what is now considered safe, the report says.
According to the study, about 500 lbs. of asbestos were used daily without respiratory protection or proper exhaust ventilation despite company reports showing managers knew the harmful effects of the substance as early as the 1920s and ’30s. Over the years, the company even sold asbestos to workers and the community for pennies a pound to insulate their homes, the report says.
Until the early 1980s, workers used about 40,000 lbs. of lead a week in the production of PVC pellets. Workers also experienced daily exposure to solvents, welding fumes, epoxy resins, PCBs, beryllium and uranium, the report notes.
After working for decades in these conditions, many former employees have become ill from often horrific and sometimes terminal diseases, including brain, bowel and lung cancer, the report says. Hundreds have filed compensation claims.
This is nothing new... GE covers over what it can not fix or remove and then years later tells local communities it is safe for them to re-use old GE sites even though we all know the toxic history of the sites.