A recent landmark Superfund settlement in New Bedford may not be enough to scrub all the probable human carcinogens from the toxic harbor, local environmental groups warn.
The federal government negotiated a $366 million cash settlement last week with the owners of a former electronics plant that leaked tons of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, into the Acushnet River and harbor. The money, US Environmental Protection Agency officials say, will provide the bulk of funding to clean the harbor within seven years.
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Periodically a tampax applicator appears on a beach alongside Boston Inner Harbor. Does this mean that some gang of local treehuggers can rush to the Conservation Law Foundation and demand that a CLF lawyer go to federal court and find a serving version of Judge Garrity to order that metro Boston sewage rate payers face doubled or more costs to update Deer Island sewage treatment facilities? Relate that sort of concept to the New Bedford Harbor cleanup demanded by local advocates.