Luke Winthrop Cole (July 15, 1962 - June 6, 2009) was an environmental lawyer and the co-founder of the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment, in California. He was a pioneer in using legal work for the environmental justice movement.

Luke Winthrop Cole
Luke Cole in Uganda 2009
BornJuly 15, 1962
North Adams, MA
DiedJune 6, 2009
Uganda

Education and career edit

Luke Winthrop Cole was born on July 15, 1962, in North Adams, Massachusetts, to Herbert Cole and Alexandra Chappell Cole.[1]

Cole graduated with honors from Stanford University in 1984, and cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1989.[2]

Cole served as counsel for the Native Village of Kivalina, Alaska, in its case seeking damages from greenhouse gas emitters from the damage to their town due to global warming.[1][3]

He taught courses in environmental justice at UC Berkeley, UC Hastings and Stanford Law.[3]

Death edit

Cole died on June 6, 2009, in a car crash in Uganda.[1][2][3]

Publications edit

  • Cole, Luke, and Sheila Foster. 2001. From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement. New York: NYU Press. ISBN 9780814715376.

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