Kai Huschke is the Northwest and Hawaii Organizer for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. He recently worked with residents of Lincoln County, Ore., who passed a binding Rights of Nature law that successfully banned aerial pesticide spraying for two years. He can be reached at kai@celdf.org.
Simon Davis-Cohen is a writer and the research and communications associate for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.
Rural America
The EPA Has Abandoned Its Duty To Protect the Environment. ‘Rights of Nature’ Laws Can Fill the Void
Kai Huschke and Simon Davis-Cohen
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