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Clarke College President Joanne M. Burrows, SC, Ph.D. recently announced that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be the featured speaker in this year’s Mackin-Mailander Lecture Series on Tuesday, Oct. 17. Tickets sales will being on Tuesday, September 5. Cost is $15 for adults and $5 for students. Reservations can be made on-line at www.clarke.edu/mackin-mailander, by calling (563)584-8642, or at the Clarke College Whitlow Bookstore. Kennedy’s books will ... be available for sale in Clarke’s bookstore.
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In Crimes Against Nature, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. documents Bush & Co.’s astonishing success stealthily sabotaging existing environmental laws through regulatory revisions. When a federal judge ruled against "mountain-topping"—a form of strip mining involving the demolition of mountaintops and the subsequent disposal of millions of gallons of toxic sludge—a former coal lobbyist who’s now a Bush deputy rewrote the regulations to qualify the sludge as "fill" rather than waste subject to federal oversight. When litigator Kennedy won his case against factory hog farms, which dump a brain-damaging- "fecal marinade" into the waterways of 34 states, the Bush administration gathered Big Pork to write new regulations exempting the industry from the Clean Water Act.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s reputation as a resolute defender of the environment stems from a litany of successful legal actions. Kennedy was named one of Time magazine's "Heroes for the Planet" for his success in helping Riverkeeper lead the fight to restore the Hudson River. The group's achievement helped spawn more than 125 Waterkeeper organizations across the globe.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was born into a family of privilege: the Kennedys. Nephew of President John F. Kennedy and son of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, he could have done many things with his life, but he has chosen to fight for the environment and everyone's right to clean water and air by taking on the big corporate polluters and holding them accountable for their actions. Armed with a master's degree in Environmental Law, Mr. Kennedy "walks his talk." He asks others to do the same.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is credited with leading the fight to protect New York City's water supply, but his reputation as a resolute defender of the environment stems from a litany of successful legal actions. The list includes winning numerous settlements for Riverkeeper, prosecuting governments and companies for polluting the Hudson River and Long Island Sound, arguing cases to expand citizen access to the shoreline, and suing treatment plants to force compliance with the Clean Water Act.
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Clarke College President Joanne M. Burrows, SC, Ph.D. is pleased to announce that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be the featured speaker in this year’s Mackin-Mailander Lecture Series. Kennedy will present “Crimes Against Nature†on Tuesday, October 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Robert and Ruth Kehl Center on the Clarke campus. The theme of this year’s series is “The Relationship Between the Environment and Humanity.†Ticket information will be available in the next few weeks.
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