Last week, U.S. Reps. Pat Ryan and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez held a joint press conference in the Hudson Valley urging the Environmental Protection Agency to do more to compel General Electric (GE) to clean up pollution from the Hudson River.

The company legally dumped PCBs into the river over the course of 30 years when it was an economic force in upstate New York.

Polychlorinated Biphenyls, or PCBs, are a human carcinogen.  

The two members of Congress were critical of the EPA, which has released its third five-year review of the Hudson River cleanup but didn’t rule on its effectiveness. 

Many environmental groups, as well as politicians on both sides of the political aisle, have argued that GE needs to do more.

Jeremy Cherson, Riverkeeper’s associate director of government affairs, discussed the situation with Capital Tonight’s Susan Arbetter.