Karl Grossman at the PCLI Media Awards, June 7, 2012. Karl Grossman has covered Long Island politics for over 50 years. He is an honored member of the Long Island Journalism Hall of Fame.Karl Grossman, a Beyond Nuclear board member and 53-year investigative journalist on Long Island where he is based, is donating his document collection to the East Hampton Public Library, as he has reported at LIPolitics.com.
Grossman has covered many environmental, political, and social issues over the past half-century, including a major nuclear power fight on Long Island:
From 1966 into the 1980s, the Long Island Lighting Company sought to build seven to 11 nuclear power plants in Suffolk County with Shoreham the first. My files include thousands of records of this ultimately defeated scheme to make Long Island what was termed in the nuclear establishment’s parlance of the time, a “nuclear park.”
Grossman's coverage of that nuclear power fight led to the publication of his 1986 book Power Crazy: Is LILCO Turning Shoreham Into America's Chernobyl?
(Other books on nuclear power by Grossman include his 1980 Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power, and his 1997 The Wrong Stuff: The Space Program's Nuclear Threat to Our Planet, among others.)
As Grossman has described it, his document collection will now provide an Atomic Age, modern era "book-end" for the Long Island archive at the East Hampton Public Library dating back to the Colonial era.