Eric Francis (born Eric Francis Coppolino, March, 1964 in Brooklyn, NY) is an American investigative reporter, essayist, an photojournalist. As an investigative reporter, he has specialized in corporate fraud and toxic torts litigation involving some of the world's most powerful corporations - General Electric, Monsanto and Westinghouse. He is the founder, editor and publisher of Planet Waves based on Vashon Island, Washington. Since 1994, he has worked as a research astrologer specializing in minor planets and other newly-discovered objects, particularly the Centaur minor planet group, as well as a horoscope writer and astrology teacher widely published in North America, the United Kingdom and Australia. He continues to be active as a journalist in non-astrological fields, particularly on organochlorine issues and civil rights. He recently published the Dioxin Dorms website, which gives a comprehensive history of the dioxin incident at SUNY New Paltz, for which he is best known as a journalist.