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I think I may have met him once or twice.

When we were fighting the Constitution Pipeline. A retired DEC guy would show up once in a while, at some of the early meetings in Sidney. People would whisper in my ear that he was a rare guy, a true champion of the environment.

RIP. thanks for your memorial, Eric.

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It was Ward Stone who first alerted the NoSpray Coalition against pesticides in 2000 that a huge number of birds were being killed not from West Nile Virus itself but from the pesticides being sprayed to kill mosquitoes as well as industrial pollution caused by oil refineries. NoSprayers Jim West and Roy Doremus trucked up to Albany to visit Stone in his government offices and videotaped him there. Ward's assessments became a key part of NoSpray's lawsuit against New York City government, which we won on the key point in 2006 and achieved an important settlement with the City the following year.

Thank you, Ward Stone.

- Mitchel Cohen

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