Art Cooley, co-founder of Environmental Defense Fund, dies
Source: AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — Art Cooley, a longtime activist who co-founded the Environmental Defense Fund more than 50 years ago, has died. Cooley, 87, helped launch the group, now one of the world’s leading environmental organizations, from his living room on Long Island, New York, in 1967.
EDF now has more than 2.5 million members and nearly 1,000 employees from New York to London to Beijing.
Cooley died Sunday in Colorado of natural causes, said his son, Jonathan.
In the mid-1960s, while a high school teacher, Cooley was one of several local activists who organized to stop use of the pesticide DDT, a toxin that was threatening survival of birds including the osprey, bald eagle and peregrine falcon. The legal battle led to the banning of DDT in the United States and the formation of EDF.
This image provided by John Rae shows Art Cooley in New York in June 2017. Cooley, a longtime activist who co-founded the Environmental Defense Fund, has died. Cooley, 87, helped launch the group, now one of the nation's largest environmental organizations, from his living room on Long Island, N.Y., in 1967. (John Rae/Environmental Defense Fund via AP)
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RIP, sir, and may your "start" move us in the right direction in the decades to come.
R.I.P.
