The two candidates disagreed on whether the Attorney General should force the General Electric Company to clean up PCB's that were legally dumped into the Hudson River before the cancer-causing chemical was banned in 1977.

The rubbish that's been legally dumped here over the years has now caught fire.

Before PCB's were banned in 1977, they were widely used in industry and could be legally dumped into water.

Pollution by sewage, refuse, and hazardous waste: various types of waste have been dumped legally and illegally in the Meadowlands.

The chemicals, polychlorinated biphenyls, were legally dumped into the river by General Electric factories for 30 years.

The rising costs of waste disposal, and the growing threat of being held liable in future for cleaning up even legally dumped rubbish, have encouraged many larger companies to cut back their muck.

In 2009 Sawley was blighted with a smell coming from waste products being legally dumped onto nearby farmland.

Liquid infectious wastes, a substantial percentage of blood residue and liquid wastes from renal dialysis can now be legally dumped into sewer systems in the state.

Much of his focus is on the Hudson, where tons of pollutants - like PCB's, mercury, metals and other agents - were legally dumped, then settled to the sediment, where they are stirred up by ships passing above.

He said his garbage was being removed by a private garbage hauler, taken out of state and legally dumped.