No, actually, the room is cleaning itself.
If anywhere should be cleaning itself up, it is the capital.
The river is cleaning itself naturally, the ads all say, and Mr. McLoughlin agrees.
"G.E. is increasingly isolated in their position that the river is cleaning itself up," said Jeff Jones, a spokesman for Environmental Advocates, a lobbying group.
"The U.N. has been cleaning itself up physically, but there is still a sort of residual 1950s, 1960s feel to the culture," said Mr. Gowan, whose father was a diplomat.
Once the most polluted river in the state, the Cachoeira River might be the best example of how Joinville is cleaning itself up and changing the old ways of the past.
The company has been running full-page newspaper ads and television and radio spots in the upper Hudson Valley for six months saying that the river is cleaning itself naturally, and that dredging would only stir up the PCB's on the bottom, posing an increased threat to wildlife and people.
Over the last few months, in full-page newspaper ads and television and radio commercials in upper Hudson Valley communities, the company has been saying that the river has been cleaning itself naturally, and that dredging will stir up the PCB's on the bottom and thus pose an increased threat to wildlife and people.
Barbara Kubish, who has lived all her life just north of here near Thompson Island, which is considered the most PCB-polluted spot in the whole river, also thinks the Hudson is cleaning itself, but she says her next door neighbor is just as vociferous in demanding that it be dredged.
