The speaker of the New York State Assembly says any talks about convincing General Electric executives to relocate their headquarters back to New York should include discussions on the company’s Superfund cleanup of PCBs in the Hudson River that’s about to end.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been talking to GE executives, trying to lure the company’s corporate headquarters back to New York, according to a report by Politico New York.
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie toured the upper Hudson River, near where General Electric has been required by the EPA to dredge potentially toxic PCBs from the River.
The project is due to finish this fall, but some environmental groups and local government leaders want it to be expanded.
Heastie says further cleanup of the river should be part of any talks aimed at winning GE’s top executives back to New York state.
“I believe that companies should be good corporate citizens,” Heastie said. “What they need to do here should be part of any discussion.”
The governor’s office had no comment.
The assembly speaker, who replaced Sheldon Silver after Silver was arrested for corruption last January, is currently on an upstate tour.
