As some of you may know,
GE went "green" a few years ago. On the outside it's all touchy feely, on the inside it is purely $$$ driven. You see, GE has hedged its bets that "green technology" will be profitable. In and of itself I have no problem with that, unless they are using the profit motive to try and shape US policy on the environment.
"All I can say is that I'm preparing my company and our customers for the day that there might be caps on carbon emissions."
GE's true motives became clear(er) today, as a
judge rejected GEs challenge to prevent them from cleaning PCBs out of the Hudson River in New York.
GE sued in 2000, just before the EPA ordered the company to pay for
dredging contaminated sediments along a 40-mile stretch of river north
of Albany. Its plants released about 1.3 million pounds of PCBs, or
polychlorinated biphenyls, into the river between 1946 and 1977, the
year the federal government banned the substance.
If they really cared about the environment, wouldn't they volunteer to clean up thier own mess?