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In December 1991, an electrical accident in New Paltz caused many PCB-laden electrical transformers to explode on the campus, including in four dormitories. This contaminated six buildings severely, and in the process, another 17 or so buildings were discovered to have contamination that spread from PCB equipment in years prior. Fortunately, students were on winter break at the time of the explosions, but were moved into dorms before the buildings were properly tested or renovated. We cover this incident on a separate website, called Dioxin Dorms<\/a><\/strong>. There you will find more than a decade of my writing on this issue.<\/p>\n More than 17 years have passed since the New Paltz explosions. Every one who lived in Bliss, Capen, Gage or Scudder halls after December 1992 is a potential exposure candidate; and I am figuring out that these transformers may have been leaking long before that time. There has been a lot of time for health effects to manifest, which will range from endocrine diseases (endometriosis, diabetes, reproductive issues) to cancer to anything that cannot be diagnosed. If you know any SUNY-New Paltz students who are not well, please send them to the Dioxin Dorms site and ask them to contact me.<\/p>\n Anyone who would like to help on this story — whether you can contribute money (I am raising $1,000 to test soil outside the buildings) do research or Facebook-type organizing — please contact me.<\/p>\n Many thanks. Friends, Readers: I am posting this mainly to get it into the search engines, and to send up a “diver down” flag. I’m responding to several students who believe that they are facing serious illnesses related to the PCB and dioxin contamination at SUNY-New Paltz. Older Planet Waves readers have heard a lot about this; … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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