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Paul William Lander earned a graduate degree in Environmental Health Science.
As an undergraduate biology major, Paul and his college roommate brought the
first citizens environmental water pollution suit in the nations' history into Federal
District Court. Working together with the United States Attorney's Office, the
company pleaded guilty to 14 counts.
Paul soon went on to sponsor a major
conference and festival to protect our oceans in 1978. Speakers included, friend's
George Wald (Nobel Laureate Biologist) and Pete Seeger, a well-known folk
singer and social activist. Paul started his own environmental consulting firm, but
as the years passed, he longed to get back to a more activist role. By 1980, he
realized that without a clean
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