Mealey's (October 19, 2022, 2:35 PM EDT) -- ALBANY, N.Y. — A federal judge in New York has approved a consent decree in which the United States agreed to pay $3,975,000 in exchange for the release of contribution cost claims brought by a property-owning company under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act for the contamination of the Hudson River by wastewater discharged from a sewer line at a site previously owned by a company the U.S. Department of Treasury seized during World War II....