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A conversation about the Hudson River pollution with...
with John Cronin and Robert F. Kennedy on Nov 10, 1997
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with John Cronin and Robert F. Kennedy on Nov 10, 1997
Saving the Hudson River ecosystem has been John Cronin’s passion and focus for nearly 20 years. Most recently, the author and former commercial fisherman was named Director of the Pace Academy for the Environment (PAE).
Cronin became the nation’s first full-time Riverkeeper in 1983, responsible for bringing to justice polluters on the Hudson River. In 1999, he came to Pace as a resident scholar in environmental studies and founding member of the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic and the Institute for Environmental and Regional Studies, both working to protect the Hudson. In the classroom, he helped students research, design, and lobby for environmental legislation. The result of their efforts, the Hudson River Marine Sanitation Act, was signed into law by Governor George Pataki in 1999. Over the years, Cronin and students from the Environmental Litigation Clinic at the School of Law have brought over 150 legal actions against polluters.
John Cronin recently appeared in the PBS documentary “America’s First River: Bill Moyers On The Hudson” and is a frequent contributor on environmental policy to The New York Times.
Source-Pace University profile http://appserv.pace.edu/execute/page.cfm?doc_id=3234
