Soundkeeper
In 1987, Backer founded, along with John Cronin, the Hudson Riverkeeper and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Chief Attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper the Long Island Soundkeeper Fund Inc.. That year Terry Backer became the first Soundkeeper for Long Island Sound and executive director of the not for profit environmental protection organization based in Norwalk, Connecticut The Long Island Soundkeeper Fund, was the second "Keeper" based organization and was preceded only by the Hudson Riverkeeper Fund. Long Island Soundkeeper was started by using a portion of stipulated penalties of $87,000.00 from a settlement based on a Clean Water Act lawsuit with the City of Norwalk, Connecticut. With Terry Backer as Executive Director/Soundkeeper, Soundkeeper Inc. has since brought many Clean Water Act lawsuits against polluters of Long Island Sound including New York City, as well as, a federal lawsuit challenging the United States Environmental Protection Agency's rule making regarding cooling water intakes from power plants
In addition, to its legal activities Soundkeeper Inc. has, under Backer's leadership, restored salt marshes in the Bronx, NY and has pioneered the use of catch basin flters to clean polluted storm water of bacteria, metals and hydrocarbons before it enters Long Island Sound, as well as numerous other projects.
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