Fred Krupp
{{short description|American lawyer}}
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| education = Yale University (BA)
University of Michigan (JD)
| occupation = President, Environmental Defense Fund
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Fred Krupp has been the president of Environmental Defense Fund, a U.S.-based nonprofit environmental advocacy group since 1984. He has worked towards convincing corporations of the benefits of environmentalism. This has included convincing McDonald's and Duke Energy to make environmentally conscious business decisions. Krupp is also an advocate for legislative action on environmental issues; he successfully advocated for passage of the acid rain reduction plan in the 1990 Clean Air Act and the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.
In 2015, Krupp received the William K. Reilly Environmental Leadership Award.{{cite web |title=Fred Krupp, President |url=https://www.edf.org/people/fred-krupp |website=Environmental Defense Fund |access-date=June 6, 2022}}
Early life and education
Krupp grew up in Verona, New Jersey, and became acquainted with recycling through his father's company, which used old rags to create roofing material.[http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20114901,00.html "Environmentalist Fred Krupp Helps Crush the Ubiquitous Fast-Food Clamshell"], People (magazine), Vol. 35, No. 14 (April 15, 1991). Accessed December 23, 2014. "Krupp, 37, learned that lesson as a boy in Verona, N.J." He graduated from Yale University in 1975. He earned J.D. in 1978 from the University of Michigan Law School.{{Cite web |date=July 6, 2022 |title=Fred Krupp, '75 B.S., J.D. |url=https://www.yale.edu/board-trustees/current-trustees/fred-krupp |access-date=November 24, 2023 |website=Yale University |language=en}} He later taught environmental law at Yale and University of Michigan.{{Cite web |date=March 15, 2023 |title=Williams College hosts Krupp for 234th commencement. |url=https://www.benningtonbanner.com/local-news/williams-college-hosts-krupp-for-234th-commencement/article_b3534fbe-c36a-11ed-bc4f-07b6ad18ed29.html |access-date=August 19, 2023 |website=Bennington Banner |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Marx |first=Ella |date=March 15, 2023 |title=EDF President Fred Krupp, U.S. Holocaust Museum Director Sara Bloomfield to speak at commencement, baccalaureate |url=https://williamsrecord.com/463616/news/edf-president-fred-krupp-u-s-holocaust-museum-director-sara-bloomfield-to-speak-at-commencement-baccalaureate/ |access-date=November 24, 2023 |website=The Williams Record}}
Career
= Early career =
Prior to joining Environmental Defense Fund, Krupp spent several years in private law practice in New Haven, Connecticut, at several firms: Cooper, Whitney, Cochran & Krupp and Albis & Krupp.{{Cite web |title=Fred Krupp |url=https://atkinson.cornell.edu/profile/fred-krupp/ |access-date=November 24, 2023 |website=Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability |publisher=Cornell University |language=en-US}} During that time he also was founder and general counsel for the Connecticut Fund for the Environment (1978–1984), a state-level environmental group.{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}}
= Environmental Defense Fund =
Since 1984, when he became president of Environmental Defense Fund, he has been influential in developing several market-based solutions, including the acid rain reduction plan in the 1990 Clean Air Act.[https://web.archive.org/web/20060110213959/http://www.westgov.org/wga/initiatives/enlibra/krupp_bio.pdf Biography of Fred Krupp] He has been described as the environmentalist who "has been the most successful in persuading the corporate world—and those who support its interests—to embrace the green cause".{{cite magazine |last1=Verini |first1=James |title=The Devil's Advocate |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/62836/devils-advocate |access-date=June 6, 2022 |magazine=The New Republic |date=September 24, 2007}} Examples including convincing McDonald's to forgo styrofoam for paper, Wal-Mart to stock energy-efficient light bulbs, and Duke Energy to invest in wind power.
Krupp has advocated for reducing methane pollution. In 2017, he criticized natural gas because the release of methane along the supply chain "made [natural gas] just as bad an energy source as coal from a greenhouse gas perspective". Ben van Beurden, then CEO of Shell, canceled a meeting with Krupp because of Krupp's criticism of natural gas.{{Cite news |last1=Mufson |first1=Steven |last2=Puko |first2=Timothy |date=December 9, 2022 |title=Big Oil talks 'transition' but perpetuates petroleum, House documents say |language=en-US |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/12/09/oil-companies-house-documents-climate/ |access-date=November 24, 2023 |issn=0190-8286}} In 2018, Krupp announced that an affiliate of EDF planned to launch an orbital satellite, MethaneSAT, to monitor industrial methane leaks.{{Cite news |last=Schwartz |first=John |date=April 11, 2018 |title=An Eye in the Sky Could Detect Planet-Warming Plumes on the Ground |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/climate/methane-monitoring-satellite.html |access-date=November 24, 2023}}{{Cite magazine |last=Brown |first=David W. |date=April 28, 2023 |title=A Security Camera for the Planet |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-climate-action/a-security-camera-for-the-planet |access-date=November 24, 2023 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US}}
In 2022, Krupp was one of the advocates for the Inflation Reduction Act.{{Cite news |title=Joe Biden's signature legislation passes the Senate, at last |newspaper=The Economist |url=https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/08/09/joe-bidens-signature-legislation-passes-the-senate-at-last |access-date=November 24, 2023 |issn=0013-0613}}
= Other activities =
Krupp served on the board of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment,{{Cite web |date=December 15, 1995 |title=$20 million environmental seed is planted Heinz family grant is for research/policy center |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1995-12-15-1995349165-story.html |access-date=September 11, 2023 |website=The Baltimore Sun}}{{Cite news |last=Lee |first=Gary |date=December 15, 1995 |title=Heinz Trust Gives $20 Million Endowment to Open Environmental Center |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1995/12/15/heinz-trust-gives-20-million-endowment-to-open-environmental-center/70dddf7e-38f0-43da-956f-30e221ea6200/ |access-date=September 11, 2023 |issn=0190-8286}} and the Leadership Council of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He has served on the President's Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations for Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}}
He is the recipient of the 1999 Keystone Leadership in Environment Award, and the 2002 Champion Award from the Women's Council on Energy and the Environment.{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}}
In 2008, his book, Earth: The Sequel, co-written with Miriam Horn, was published. The book highlights technology that aims to fight global warming.{{Cite magazine |last=Little |first=Amanda Griscom |title=The Environmental Defense Fund's Fred Krupp on the Best Capitalist Climate Solutions |language=en-US |magazine=Wired |url=https://www.wired.com/2008/02/st-krupp/ |access-date=November 24, 2023 |issn=1059-1028}}
In 2014, Krupp was awarded an honorary degree from Haverford College.
He was elected by fellow alumni to serve as an alumni fellow of Yale's Board of Trustees for a six-year term beginning on July 1, 2022. In June 2023, he earned an honorary degree from Williams College and gave the commencement address.{{Cite web |last=Dravis |first=Stephen |date=June 4, 2023 |title=Williams Grads Pushed Toward 'Thoughtful Engagement' |url=https://www.iberkshires.com/story/71985/Williams-Grads-Pushed-Toward-Thoughtful-Engagement-.html |access-date=November 24, 2023 |website=iBerkshires.com}}
Personal life
He lives in Connecticut with his wife, Laurie. They have three children.{{Cite web |url=http://www.westgov.org/wga/initiatives/enlibra/krupp_bio.pdf |title=Bio |access-date=August 11, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060110213959/http://www.westgov.org/wga/initiatives/enlibra/krupp_bio.pdf |archive-date=January 10, 2006 |url-status=dead }}
As an avid rower, he won a gold medal in the 2006 World Rowing Masters Regatta sponsored by the World Rowing Federation.{{cite news |last=Peed |first=Andrea Thompson |date=June 2, 2022 |title=Alumni elect Fred Krupp '75 to serve on Yale's board of trustees |work=YaleNews |url=https://news.yale.edu/2022/06/02/alumni-elect-fred-krupp-75-serve-yales-board-trustees |access-date=June 6, 2022}} At the 2010 U.S. Rowing Masters Nationals Regatta, he won a silver medal in the Mixed Open F 4X.{{Cite web |date=August 17, 2010 |title=Maritime Rowing dominates nationals |url=https://www.thehour.com/sports/article/Maritime-Rowing-dominates-nationals-8303372.php |access-date=November 24, 2023 |website=The Hour |language=en-US}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.strategy-business.com/press/article/08201?pg=0 "The Making of a Market-Minded Environmentalist"], autobiographical article by Fred Krupp in Strategy+Business. (Registration required.)
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