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The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer

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In a video recording of the event , Cole asserted that where fossil fuel energy is extracted, refined, transported, used to generate power, and disposed of in toxic waste dumps, it “is highly correlated to low income communities and communities of color.”. In 2003, intruders broke into the office of CRPE, the small nonprofit Cole had founded.

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