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Book Review of The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right

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A modern-day David and Goliath tale, The Riverkeepers is an impassioned firsthand account by two advocates who have taken on powerful corporate and government polluters to win back the Hudson River.
Revealing shocking stories of commonplace environmental crime - from drinking water tainted with hospital waste to fish populations contaminated by freely dumped PCBs - Cronin and Kennedy describe their dramatic confrontations with more than ninety environmental lawbreakers.