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 Cooley in 2008 |
Arthur P. Cooley (June 2, 1934 – January 30, 2022) was an American biology teacher, naturalist and expedition leader, and a co-founder of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).
In the mid-1960s, while a teacher at Bellport High School on New York's Long Island, Cooley was one of several local activists who came together to stop the use of the pesticide/pollutant DDT by the Suffolk County Mosquito Control Commission.[1] This collaboration ledt to the founding of the Environmental Defense Fund.
- ^ "Fostering Clean Air through Environmental Law," The New York Times, May 14, 1995