Environmentalist RFK Jr. to Address Guilford Mar. 20
From Staff and Wire
Reports
On March 20, Guilford will
host Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as
a Bryan Distinguished Visit
ing Professor in the Arts, Hu
manities and Public
Affairs. He will present a pub
lic lecture at 8 p.m. in Dana
Auditorium.
As an attorney and envi
ronmental activist, Kennedy
has prosecuted governmental
agencies and industrial com
panies for polluting the
Hudson River and Long Island
Sound, winning settlements
for the Hudson Riverkeeper,
arguing cases to expand citi
zen access to the shoreline,
and suing sewage treatment
plants to force compliance
with the Clean Water Act.
"The Hudson is my back
yard, and the primary obliga
tion of anyone in the environ
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mental community is to clean
his or her own backyard
first," Kennedy said. "Global
reform starts with local re
form."
In a recent article in The
"The White House
wants to extract hydro
gen from coal and
natural gas, (without
controlling emissions),
and not renewable re
sources like wind and
solar power, thereby in
creasing global warming
and fouling our land
scape."
New York Times criticizing
President Bush's plans for
developing hydrogen-pow
ered cars, Kennedy wrote
that "the White House wants
to extract hydrogen from coal
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and natural gas, (without con
trolling emissions), and not
renewable resources like
wind and solar power, thereby
increasing global warming
and fouling our landscape."
In an alternate plan to
Bush's, Kennedy proposes
requiring cars to average 40
miles-per-gallon by 2012.
"[lt] would save nearly 2
million barrels a day; that's
more than we imported from
Saudi Arabia last year, and
three times our Iraq im
ports," Kennedy wrote.
Kennedy is credited with
leading the fight to protect
New York City's water supply.
The New York City agree
ment, which he negotiated of
behalf of environmentalists
across the state, is regarded
as an international model in
stakeholder consensus nego
tiations and sustainable de
velopment.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the second speaker in the
2002-03 Bryan Distinguished Visiting Professor series
Courtesy of College Relations
Nationally, he contributed
to the defeat of several anti
environmental bills during the
104 th Congress.
He has also worked on
environmental issues across
the Americas and has worked
with several indigenous tribes
in Latin America and Canada
to successfully negotiating
treaties protecting traditional
homelands.
Earlier in his career,
Kennedy served as assistant
district attorney in New York
City. He has worked for presi
dential campaigns, including
those of Ted Kennedy, his uncle,
in 1980, and Al Gore in 2000.
February 28, 2003
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Kennedy is the author of
numerous articles and three
books, and his articles have
appeared in The Wall Street
Journal, The New York Times,
Atlantic Monthly, The Boston
Globe, The Washington Post,
and others.
Kennedy graduated from
Harvard University. He stud
ied at the London School of
Economics and received his
law degree from the Univer
sity of Virginia Law School.
Following graduation he at
tended Pace University
School of Law, where he was
awarded a master's degree in
environmental law.