The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right is a 1997 book written by John Cronin and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

The book documents its authors' activism and legal action against the corporate polluters of the Hudson River in New York.

[2][1] The book, with a foreword by Al Gore, documents the work by its authors in their legal battles with the corporate polluters of the Hudson River.

[1] The book notes "right-wing stereotypes about environmental elitism" and recommends strategies to persuade political opponents.

Recommended strategies are local action, linking environmentalism with preserving historical industry such as fishing, rather than as being against economic growth, and framing environmentalism as a struggle "against special interests who would monopolize, exclude, and liquidate [resources] for cash.