As editor of SLNS, he covered the SUNY New Paltz PCB disaster of December 29, 1991, in which a transformer accident contaminated several dormitories with PCBs and dioxin, one of few reporters to do so after the first month of what became a decade-plus cleanup that cost state taxpayers $50 million by 1997.
As editor of SLNS, he covered the SUNY New Paltz PCB disaster in December 1991, which involved a transformer accident contaminating several dormitories with PCBs and dioxin. This event was part of a long-term cleanup effort that cost state taxpayers $50 million by 1997.