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The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer

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That chance encounter with Swan in Kotzebue led to Cole representing Kivalina in a lawsuit in 2002 against one of the world’s largest zinc mines, Teck Cominco’s Red Dog Mine, alleging that the Canadian mining giant was polluting the Wulik River. An avid birder, he first went to South America to visit friends.

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Climate Deniers and the Language of Climate Obstruction

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Language around climate solutions is particularly susceptible to this treatment, especially as polluting companies invest in strategies and tactics to present themselves as part of the solution to climate change when, clearly —as they continue to prioritize drilling for globe-warming fuels — they are not. Fossil Fuel Solutionism.