Luke Cole Explained

Luke Winthrop Cole
Birth Date:	15 July 1962
Birth Place:	North Adams, Massachusetts
Death Place:	Uganda
Occupation:	Environmental lawyer

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 graduated with honors from Stanford University in 1984, and cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1989.

Cole served as counsel for the Native Village of Kivalina, Alaska, in its case seeking damages from greenhouse gas emitters from the damage to their town due to global warming.

He taught courses in environmental justice at UC Berkeley, UC Hastings and Stanford Law.

Death

Cole died on June 6, 2009, in a car crash in Uganda.^[2]

Publications

• Book: none . Cole . Luke . Sheila . Foster . 2001 . From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement . New York . . 9780814715376. .

Awards

• Environmental Leadership Award (1997) – UC Berkeley's Ecology Law Quarterly.^[3]
• Award for Excellence in Environmental, Energy, and Resources Stewardship (2009) – American Bar Association^{[4] [5]}

Notes and References

1. News: Luke Cole, Court Advocate for Minorities, Dies at 46 . Hevesi . Dennis . . June 10, 2009.
2. News: Luke Cole - environmental justice lawyer - dies . Taylor . Michael . . articles.sfgate.com . June 9, 2009.
3. Web site: Luke Cole, Environmental Justice Activist, Killed in Car Crash . Carlson . Ann . June 7, 2009.
4. Web site: Stewarship Award . . October 4, 2019.
5. Web site: Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources | Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources . Abanet.org . 2013-05-20 . 2019-12-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191214051232/http://www.abanet.org/environ/sectaward/2009/home.shtml . dead .