It might kill you if you don’t.  One of the nation’s oldest publications, Harper’s has seen its share of wars and corporate misdeeds come and go, and it’s still on the lookout.  Here David Gargill relates why the Hudson River will never be clean of industrial poisons generated by General Electric and others throughout the 20th century.  So many PCBs have been released, stored, or forgotten about that it’s basically hopeless to try to remove them, though the EPA is overseeing a half-billion-dollar cleanup effort to try and get rid of some of them.  Since many people believe the river dredging will end up causing more damage than it mitigates,  the point of this depressing article is that we have to keep a sharp eye on present environmental threats from other megaprojects such as the Marcellus Shale gas exploration effort.  Abrahm Lustgarten of ProPublica explains why, if we don’t take a very hard look right now, the Marcellus Shale could be the next big problem that it’s already too late to do anything about.

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