The Mohawk Indians of northern New York didn’t even have a word in their language for pollution before the discovery of elevated levels of polychlorinated biphenyls [PCBs], volatile organic compounds, dibenzofurans, cyanide and fluorides in the St. Lawrence and Grasse rivers and other waterways.
One study traced PCBs released into the St. Lawrence by Alcoa to PCBs in the fish, then into the bodies of Mohawk mothers who ate the fish, into the mothers’ breast milk, into the bodies of their babies and into the babies’ urine, said attorney John Privitera, a shareholder at McNamee, Lochner, Titus & Williams in Albany.
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