Great article about an environmental activist

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It's from 2007, but I just came across it.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/07/08/ecology_sleuth_is_local_global/

Ecology sleuth is local, global
Natick engineer tracks pollution
By Alison O'Leary Murray, Globe Correspondent | July 8, 2007

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The Natick resident is a renowned expert on pollution who travels the world to perform tests on air, soil, and water. Providing proof of environmental destruction has been his business since graduating from Boston University in the 1980s.

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"He really knows his stuff," said Robert Becnel, a New Orleans lawyer who worked with Kaltofen recently to document a major oil spill caused by Hurricane Katrina.

Becnel said Kaltofen's "fingerprinting" of a crude-oil spill, and his expert testimony, helped win a major class action settlement. "We hired a number of experts, and we had the highest confidence in him. He taught us a lot."

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Kaltofen's chemical engineering company, Boston Chemical Data Corp., is often called into action by the nonprofit Government Accountability Project, a Seattle-based watchdog organization.

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