Hands Across the River Coalition

The Hands Across The River Coalition has had no luck convincing the EPA's Regional Office to abandon its plans to bury pcb's in New Bedford Harbor. So now, the Coalition is taking its complaints to Washington. Current E-P-A plans call for the burying of toxic pcb's in so-called unlined holes or cad cells close to the Fairhaven shoreline...

A special panel was in New Bedford this week, gathering public comment on how $6 million should be spent to restore natural resources and shorelines damaged by the 2003 Bouchard Oil Spill.  The Natural Resources Trustee Council is proposing a host of restoration projects, including $813,000 for the restoration of the Round Hill Salt Marsh in Dartmouth...