Art Cooley
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Art Cooley
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Arthur P. Cooley 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. This collaboration ledt to the founding of the Environmental Defense Fund.
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American environmentalist, teacher, and expedition leader (1934–2022)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Cooley
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2023-11-10T17:30:56Z
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