Patuxent Riverkeeper Fred Tutman On Diversity In The Environmental Movement

By Sheilah Kast,

Published April 26, 2021 at 10:52 AM EDT

It's past time for environmental groups to reckon with their lack of diversity.

That’s the message shared by Fred Tutman, founder of the Patuxent Riverkeeper and the country’s only African-American Waterkeeper, "We really are stuck with each other. And we’ve gotta find some way to talk openly and more respectfully to each other about what we know and what we see.”

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