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During his 23 years as head of Environmental Defense Fund, Krupp has overseen the growth of EDF from a small nonprofit with budget of $3 million into a recognized worldwide leader in the environmental movement. Under his direction, EDF’s full-time staff has increased from 50 to 400, membership has expanded from 40,000 to more than 500,000 and new offices have opened in Raleigh, Austin, Boston, Sacramento and Beijing, China.
Krupp, who was educated at Yale and the University of Michigan Law School, is also the co-author of Earth: The Sequel – The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming.
He is widely recognized as a champion of harnessing market forces for environmental ends, such as the market-based acid rain reduction plan in the 1990 Clean Air Act. Krupp broke ground by engaging American companies to lessen their impact on the environment. He also helped launch a corporate coalition, the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, whose Fortune 500 members—Alcoa, BP, Caterpillar, and GE.
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