Environment
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RFK Human Rights files amicus brief on climate change, seeks protection for environmental defenders
Tags Share On December 18, 2023, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, in partnership with the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, Amazon Watch, Latin American and Caribbean Network for Democracy (REDLAD), ARTICLE 19: Global Campaign for Free Expression, Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR), and International Service for Human Rights (ISHR),…
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Statement at the Federal Water Pollution Control Enforcement Conference for Moriches and Great South Bays Long Island, New York
As families move out of our cities into attractive towns and villages, they bring with them requirements that these small communities have not faced in the past.
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Address at the New York State Association of Towns, New York City
All around us is evidence of the urban crisis of our time. The streets are clogged with traffic. The air is heavy with smoke. Our water is in short supply. And a short subway ride on almost any line— when the subways are running— will bring us to the crowded slums of the city, to…
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Speech at the International Water Quality Symposium, Washington, D.C.
We must clean up the streams and lakes. In addition to obvious reasons of health and recreation for doing so, the fact is that this is the most economical way to get at significant sources of water. The Hudson River pours 20 billion gallons a day into the Atlantic, all of which is too polluted…
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Statement Before the House Subcommittee on Natural Resources and Power, Syracuse, New York
There is no easy solution to our water pollution problems.
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Statement on Long Island Wetlands Bill, Delivered Before the House Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation
Scientists have pointed out that 60% of the seafood taken from water surrounding the United States is dependent on coastal bays and marshes for their existence
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Remarks at Model City Conference, Buffalo, New York
The plight of the cities—the physical decay and the human despair that pervades them—is the great internal problem of the American nation, a challenge which must be met.
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Speech at Worthington, Minnesota
Even as in the drive toward bigness and concentration, the city has reached heights never before dreamt of in the past, we have come suddenly to realize how heavy a price we have paid
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Speech at Worthington, Minnesota
There is simply not enough room in the big cities; and it is not more bigness that should be our goal. We must attempt, rather, to bring people
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Remarks before the Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization of the Committee on Government Operations of the United States Senate
The city is not just housing and stores. It is not just education and employment, parks and theaters, banks and shops.
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Statement to the Senate on July 12, 1966
The major danger from air pollution is one of health. Most of us know that carbon monoxide in a closed garage can kill us but fewer know of the indirect dangers.
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Statement to the Senate on July 12, 1966
We can make progress in our efforts to control air pollution only if we establish a Federal safety code for the major pollutants.
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