'NY leaders form coalition to get the lead out' ~ Read more in today's Elmira Star-Gazette

It truly has been an unprecedented environmental session and in my second year as chairman of the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee, I’m proud of it. It will make a positive difference for generations of citizens and communities. It puts down important foundations on which to build a better future. That includes legislation I sponsored, together with Southern Tier Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo, to make New York the first state in America to require that school drinking water systems, including preschools, be tested for lead contamination.