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...Benstock says that when she moved to New York, "the problem that bothered me most was soot on my windowsill--air pollution...
...Eventually, I applied for a grant to look into what kind of job the Environmental Agency was doing. They said, `This problem has been studied enough. We want someone to do something about it,'" Benstock says...
...city came under new requirements to reduce pollution in order to meet minimum standards for clean air," says Benstock...
...There was a battle for 12 years. It was a tremendous citizen's victory. It was the only real major victory that ordinary New Yorkers have ever had," Benstock says...
...themselves [that affected me]," says Benstock. "It wasn't the model of activists, but the absence of materialistic values, power and money. If I had been concerned primarily with making money, there wouldn't have been time to notice or think about the things I did. I couldn't have done the work...