WPTV anchor Michael Williams is retiring from broadcasting after 44 years.

Williams started working at West Palm Beach NBC affiliate in 2011. He started his career in TV at WSVN in Miami in 1984 and went on to work at NBC News, before joining WFOR in 2008. He’s also worked at WTVX in Fort Pierce and at WCPO in Cincinnati.

He said his first love is the environment and he plans to do some advocacy work in retirement.

“I really think about the fact that when I’m old and grayer, my kids and grandkids might ask, ‘Dad, what did you do to make sure we have clean water to drink?’” Williams said. “It’s generational, and as a dad and a granddad, I think about that a lot.”

The station did a full on write up for his retirement. Click here to read it.