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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. In 2003, intruders broke into the office of CRPE, the small nonprofit Cole had founded.

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