Being an "environmental watchdog" has been a 30-year commitment for him, and he served as an official intervenor against the Sable Offshore Energy Project. He brought along four students who had intervenor status, and they too presented evidence against that project.

"I've also taken people up to Murmansk, Russia where we had an environmental conference," he says. "The students found that there were over 60 nuclear reactors that had been dumped off the Bering Sea coast, along with the dumping of nuclear waste by the northern fleet."