New Orleans, LA, Jun 10, 2010 — NCPR Adirondack Bureau Chief Brian Mann is on assignment for National Public Radio for two weeks, pitching in on the network's broad coverage of the BP oil spill and its impacts. (You can find his latest stories for NPR below and on our front page.)

This morning, he told Martha Foley he's met people he first got to know while he was covering the Exxon Valdez oil spill over 20 years ago in Prince William Sound, Alaska. And he's met people from closer to home in Franklin County, New York.