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The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer
How Luke Cole and an Alaskan community spearheaded a landmark climate lawsuit against fossil fuel giants and helped empower other marginalized communities to stand up for themselves.
Apr 7, 2021 @ 15:44
Luke Cole illustration by Sam Whitham. Clockwise from center, photos courtesy of Nancy Shelby and Brent Newell. Photo of Kivalina children by Dave Malkoff, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
Each storm season brings increased stress and fear for the people of Kivalina, a tiny Native village of some 400 Inupiaq people that sits on a small barrier island on the shore of the Chukchi Sea in Alaska. For decades, there was no reliable way of evacuating people in the event of a severe storm; the only way on or off the island was by small plane or boat, neither of which are available or safe during high winds, storm surges, and inundation. A bridge to the mainland was only recently completed. Meanwhile, the island is rapidly eroding
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On May 1, after testing found at least 123 coronavirus cases out 900 tested workers at the Rochelle Foods plant in northern Illinois, Kyle Auman, the Ogle County Health Department director, was summoned to a conference call.
On the emailed invite: six Trump administration political appointees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, one infectious disease expert at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, several top officials at the Illinois Department of Public Health and the governor’s office – as well as lawyers and executives from Rochelle Foods.
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