Polluted mud must wait.

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it needs another year--until 2006--to plan and design for the dredging of the upper Hudson River in New York in order to remove and dispose of the PCB-polluted mud. General Electric used PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) for about 30 years at its nearby factories. As much as 1 million pounds of the chemical--a suspected human...