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The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer

DeSmogBlog

Working closely with the community, Cole represented the residents in lawsuits fighting against major mining and fossil fuel companies, including the groundbreaking case Kivalina v. This philosophy led Cole to structure CRPE so that community organizers were in the lead and lawyers would be accountable to the organizers.

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The search for the Dr. Fauci of climate change

Grist

The 9-year-old girl’s fatal asthma attack might have passed without public notice except for the fact that, after a long legal fight, it became the first British death officially attributed to fossil fuel-caused air pollution. When she died in 2013, no doctors mentioned environmental causes. In the U.S.,