My guest on Wednesday is Craig Michaels of Riverkeeper, and our topic will be the Hudson River in its 400th year after its discovery by Henry Hudson and the crew of the Half Moon, and the crisis of fresh water.

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Craig Michaels has been Riverkeeper’s Watershed Program Director since October 2008.  Mr. Michaels returned to Riverkeeper in 2007 as the New York City Investigator for the Hudson River program.  He previously worked at Riverkeeper for three years as the Education and Outreach Coordinator before entering law school.  In January 2007, he received his J.D. and Environmental Law Certificate from Pace Law School.  At Pace, Mr. Michaels interned for one year at the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, where he represented Riverkeeper and four other environmental groups in administrative permit proceedings arising from a Clean Water Act citizen suit against the City of New York.  Prior to interning for the Environmental Litigation Clinic, Mr. Michaels served as a Legal Aide in the Litigation Bureau at the Office of the New York State Attorney General.  Mr. Michaels holds a B.S. in Natural Resources and Environment from the University of Michigan and grew up in Westchester County.