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We met with M.C. Mehta the morning we caught a flight to Chennai. M.C. Mehta is a remarkable individual whose life and work has impacted millions in India and around the world. He has fought more cases against the Indian supreme courts than any environmental lawyer in the world. It is because of his work that Delhi has the largest green fuel based transport system in the world with buses and rickshaws running on CNG and other clean-burning fuels. He forced the closure of hundreds of factories around India whose pollution was destroying local ecosystems and national monuments like the Taj Mahal. He fought for the rights of all Indians to have clean drinking water and argued that learning to care for the environment should be part of all children's compulsory education. You can watch some clips from our interview with him here.