A Catskill resident in the 1970s and
1980s, Jones has long been active in Catskill issues, with his extensive
work on the Hudson River clean-up as its centerpiece.
Jones
co-chaired from 2000 to 2004 the Friends of the Hudson coalition, consisting
of over fifty groups dedicated to the clean-up of the hundreds of tons of
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) dumped in the River over the last decades
by the General Electric Corporation, wrote extensively on the issue and both
lobbied for and publicized the fight against this deadly pollutant.
Jones
co-chaired from 2000 to 2004 the Friends of the Hudson coalition, consisting
of over fifty groups dedicated to the clean-up of the hundreds of tons of
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) dumped in the River over the last decades
by the General Electric Corporation, wrote extensively on the issue and both
lobbied for and publicized the fight against this deadly pollutant.