page_title: Art Cooley
hierarchical_section_title: Art Cooley
caption_attribution_description: English: Art Cooley 2008
context_page_description: Arthur P. "Art" Cooley is a former biology teacher, naturalist and expedition leader, and a co-founder of the Environmental Defense Fund.
  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. From that successful collaboration emerged the Environmental Defense Fund, a non-profit environmental advocacy group with offices nationwide, and representatives working around the world. By 2012 EDF claimed 700,000 members and nearly $100 million in annual support.
context_section_description: Arthur P. "Art" Cooley (born June 2, 1934) is a former 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. From that successful collaboration emerged the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), a non-profit environmental advocacy group with offices nationwide, and representatives working around the world. By 2012 EDF claimed 700,000 members and nearly $100 million in annual support.
caption: Cooley in 2008
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