The hudson river has been polluted with from a facility that manufactures electrical transformers.

The Hudson river has been polluted with PCBs from a facility that manufactures electrical transformers. There were two GE capacitor manufacturing industries that released almost 1.3 million pounds of polychlorinated biphenyls into the river. The wildlife of the river and the people who consumed its fishes were harmed significantly. 

The Hudson river has been polluted with PCBs from a facility that manufactures electrical transformers. PCBs stands for Polychlorinated Biphenyl. It is an organic chlorine compound which has been identified as a persistent organic pollutant and a carcinogenic material. It is usually used by companies that produce electrical devices such as transformer. Its use has been banned in USA since 1979.