environmental law center

Guest
Karin Sheldon, President of Four Echoes Strategies and Adjunct Professor at Colorado Law University of Colorado Boulder

Hosts
Jeannie Oliver, Assistant Professor and Staff Attorney, Energy Clinic
Veronica Ung-Kono JD/MERL 2021

Recommended Resources

Bowman, Cynthia Grant, Women in the Legal Profession from the 1920s to the 1970s: What Can We Learn from Their Experience about Law and Social Change? (2009) Cornell Law Faculty Publications. Paper 12.

 Green 2.0, exploring diversity in environmental organizations. https://www.diversegreen.org/

• See in particular, Taylor, Dorceta E., The State of Diversity in Environmental Organizations, July 2014.
• 2019 report card with a summary here

Halton, Mary, Climate change ‘impacts women more than men’, 8 March 2018, BBC News. 

McCarthy, Joe, Why Climate Change Disproportionately Affects Women, 5 March, 2020, Global Citizen. 

Environmental justice activist Fred Tutman is the only Black waterkeeper in the United States, and in this candid discussion with his close friend and fellow waterkeeper Theaux Le Gardeur, the duo reflect on how racism has affected their very different experiences in the environmental movement. Listen as they discuss how environmentalism has historically failed BIPOC communities and consider the potential—and dire need—for the movement to change.

Guests:
Fred Tutman,  Patuxent Riverkeeper
Theaux Le Gardeur, Gunpowder Riverkeeper

Hosts:
Jeannie Oliver, Assistant Professor and Staff Attorney, Energy Clinic
Mason Overstreet, Staff Attorney, Environmental Advocacy Clinic

Resources:

• Chesapeake Bay Magazine – November 17, 2017 – Fearless Riverkeeper Fred Tutman fights for the Patuxent River and for the people who live alongside its shores
• Spinsheet – December 5, 2014 – Bay People: Fred Tutman, Patuxent Riverkeeper
• Bay Journal – April 11, 2014 – With river in his blood, Fred Tutman stands his ground wholeheartedly
• Capital Gazette – Oct. 2, 2013 – Fred Tutman, Patuxent Riverkeeper
• Waterkeeper Alliance – Native Son Fred Tutman, Patuxent Riverkeeper
• Smithsonian podcast: Ep. 13: The Riverkeeper
   

The outro music in this episode is WAKAN TANKA by Carl Filipiak and the Jimi Jazz Band, courtesy of Carl Filipiak, Art of Life Records and Geometric Records. 

Exploitation, heat exhaustion in a warming climate, and a heightened risk of COVID-19 are among the many challenges farmworkers face—often magnified by undocumented immigration status. Why does the law fail to protect these essential workers, and how can advocates step in where the law falls short? In this episode we speak with a Vermont-based farmworker from Mexico, activists at the organization Migrant Justice, and Vermont Law School Associate Dean Jenny Rushlow to find out.

Guests:

Jose Luis Cordova Herrera, Dairy Farm Worker
Marita Canedo, Organizer, Migrant Justice
Will Lambek, Organizer, Migrant Justice
Jennifer K. Rushlow, Associate Dean for Environmental Programs and Director of the Environmental Law Center
 

Resources:

Support and get involved with Migrant Justice.
Call your legislator to support the Vermont Coronavirus Relief Fund for immigrant families. Donate to Movimiento Cosecha’s Undocumented Worker Fund.
Dontate to Justice for Migrant Women COVID-19 Relief Fund.
Sew #Masks4Farmworkers.
Sign up to milk cows in Vermont if farmworkers get sick.
Download Housing and Employment Rights for Vermont Dairy Workers, published by Vermont Law School’s Center for Agriculture and Food Systems.
Read Associate Dean Jenny Rushlow’s latest journal article on farmworkers and access to justice.

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Guests:
Hillary Hoffmann, Professor of Law, Environmental Law Center

Hosts:
Jeannie Oliver, Assistant Professor and Staff Attorney
Mason Overstreet, LLM Toxics Fellow with the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic

With special thank you to the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law and the Top 10 Environmental Watch List 2019: http://vjel.vermontlaw.edu/topten/?toptenyear=2019