Years ago I took a business trip to New York, and that triggered a complaint from my wife about all the wonderful places I got to visit without her.I patiently explained that on this particular overnight, in-and-out trip, I would see nothing except an airport, a hotel room and the Edward P. Decher Secondary Wastewater Treatment Facility in Elizabeth, N.J., across the Goethals bridge from Staten Island. There, I would do research for a magazine story about the plant’s digester gas-fueled cogeneration system.Few people would consider that a glamorous assignment. It turned out to be a miserably hot summer day,
