SUNY New Paltz Campus PCB Concern
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Posted by Victoria Anisman-Reiner Aug 26, 2007 |
I admit, I'm puzzled. Last month, I wrote an article for the Environmental Issues section of this website in which I covered the debate over thecontaminated dorms at the State University of New York (SUNY) New Paltz. In my article, PCB Health Risk for SUNY Students, I described the coverage by Eric Francis Coppolino, originator of the dioxindorms.com website and the author of numerous articles on the issue (google “SUNY New Paltz” and something by him will appear on the list).
Shortly after my article went live, I heard from Debbie Kwiatoski, another writer who, like Eric Francis, was in New Paltz and had reported on the event shortly after it occurred.
She insisted that the safety of these dorms is a non-issue. In the course of a cordial but thoroughly frustrating debate with me by email, she published The SUNY New Paltz PCB Controversy, an article which emphatically refutes remarks about the dorms that, as far as I can tell, have never been made (if I've overlooked a reference to "heating vents" anywhere on dioxindorms, please let me know!). The article also leans heavily on quotes by school administrators who, needless to say, insist that the dorms are perfectly safe.