Word: rivers
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...look like kids, think like politicians and talk like poets--have formed a partnership based on vigilance and the law. With the help of students from the Environmental Litigation Clinic at the Pace University School of Law, Cronin and Kennedy have brought more than 150 legal actions against the river's polluters. Their most important case to date led to the 1997 watershed agreement that safeguards New York City's drinking water by protecting 19 upstate reservoirs...
...idea for a Riverkeeper sprang from the hard head of Bob Boyle, a writer at SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and a sportfisherman who in the 1960s fought for clean waters and founded the Hudson River Fishermen's Association--at the time an unlikely alliance of commercial interests and environmentalists. American environmental law came into its own in 1980, when the Con Edison power company, after a battle with the fishermen, dropped its plan to build a huge facility on Storm King Mountain near the Hudson that was designed to store water for hydroelectric-power generation but would also have damaged a major...
...Kennedy describe the movement to save the Hudson in The Riverkeepers, published by Simon & Schuster (website: www.riverkeeper.org) Today 23 U.S. Riverkeepers watch over lakes, creeks, ponds and bays from Long Island Sound to Cook Inlet in Alaska, and the first Canadian keeper program began last month on the Petitcodiac River in New Brunswick...
...Hudson is a combination of the chastised, though often still abusive polluters and healthy signs of a waterway revived. Yet it is the past that most concerns Cronin and Kennedy--the past polluters, and the more distant past, in which they hope to see the future. The river is where they have found their home, and it has all the beauty and mystery of home...
...Cronin, the impulse for his lifework came from family history. "I was raised along the river," he says. "I was in the first generation that was taught the river was unsafe--not because of tides that might pull you down but because of water quality. As a young adult, I found a legacy I had been kept from inheriting. The lives of my family had swirled around the river; my grandfather was a fisherman; that's where families gathered. I discovered that connection. But then there was a larger connection. It seemed that every community on the river had lost...