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.
Education and career
Luke Winthrop Cole was born on July 15, 1962, in North Adams, Massachusetts, to Herbert Cole and Alexandra Chappell Cole.[1]
Cole died on June 6, 2009, in a car crash in
Uganda.[1][2][3]
Publications
Cole, Luke; Foster, Sheila (2001). From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement. New York:
NYU Press.
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