Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Born | Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. January 17, 1954 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse(s) |
Emily Black
(m. 1982; div. 1994)Mary Richardson
(m. 1994; div. 2010) |
Children | Robert III, Kathleen, Conor, Kyra, Finbar, and Aidan |
Parent(s) | Robert F. Kennedy Ethel Skakel |
Relatives | See Kennedy family |
Alma mater | Harvard University (BA) London School of Economics University of Virginia (JD) Pace University (LLM) |
Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (born January 17, 1954) is an American environmental attorney, author, activist, entrepreneur, and radio host. Kennedy serves as president of the board of Waterkeeper Alliance,[1] a non-profit environmental group which he helped found in 1999. He is the chairman of World Mercury Project (WMP),[2] an advocacy group that seeks to reduce and eliminate mercury exposure from industry and pharmaceuticals such as vaccines.
Kennedy served from 1986 until 2017 as senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC),[3] a non-profit environmental organization. He served from 1984 until 2017 as board member and chief prosecuting attorney for Hudson Riverkeeper.[4]
For over thirty years Kennedy has been a professor of Environmental Law at Pace University School of Law in White Plains, New York. Until August 2017, he also held the post as supervising attorney and co-director of Pace Law School's Environmental Litigation Clinic, which he founded in 1987.[5] He is currently professor emeritus at Pace.[6]
Kennedy co-hosts Ring of Fire, a nationally syndicated American radio program, and has written or edited ten books, including two New York Times bestsellers and three children's books.[7]
Early life
Kennedy was born in Washington, D.C on January 17, 1954. He is the third of eleven children of Senator and former Attorney General Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, and is a nephew of World War II casualty Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy Jr., U.S. President John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, and longtime Senator Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy. His aunt Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded Special Olympics,[8] and another aunt, Jean Kennedy Smith, is a former US ambassador to Ireland.[9]
Kennedy was 9 years old when his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated during a visit to Dallas, and 14 years old when his father was assassinated while running for president in the 1968 election. Kennedy learned of his father's shooting when he was at his Jesuit boarding school in North Bethesda, Maryland.[10] A few hours later he flew out to Los Angeles on vice-president Hubert Humphrey's plane along with his elder sister Kathleen and elder brother Joseph, and was with his father when he died. Kennedy served as pallbearer in his father's funeral, where he spoke and read excerpts from his father's speeches at the Mass commemorating his death at Arlington National Cemetery.[11][12] Following his father's death, he was arrested for loitering and marijuana possession.[13]
After obtaining his high school diploma from Millbrook School in New York,[14] Kennedy continued his education at Harvard and the London School of Economics, graduating from Harvard College in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts in American History and Literature. He went on to earn a J.D. from the University of Virginia and a Master of Laws from Pace University.[15]
Legal career
In 1983, Kennedy served as Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan. In 1984, Kennedy joined Riverkeeper as an investigator, and was promoted to senior prosecuting attorney[16] when he was admitted to the New York bar in 1985.[17]
Kennedy is an environmental law specialist and partner in the law firms of Morgan & Morgan PA and of Kennedy & Madonna, LLP,[18] and is an advocate for environmental justice.
Through litigation, lobbying, teaching, and public campaigns and activism, Kennedy has advocated for the protection of waterways, indigenous rights, and renewable energy.[19]
Riverkeeper
Kennedy litigated and supervised environmental enforcement lawsuits on the east coast estuaries on behalf of Hudson Riverkeeper and the Long Island Soundkeeper,[20] where he also served as a board member. Long Island Soundkeeper brought numerous lawsuits against cities and industries along the Connecticut and New York coastlines.[21] In 1986, Kennedy won a landmark case against Remington Arms Trap and Skeet Gun Club in Stratford, Connecticut, that ended the practice of shooting lead shot into Long Island Sound.[22] Kennedy also filed federal lawsuits to close the Pelham Bay landfill and the New York Athletic clubs, arguing that those facilities were interfering with public use of Long Island Sound.[23] On the Hudson, Kennedy brought a series of lawsuits against municipalities, including New York City, to properly treat sewage, and against industries, including, Consolidated Edison, General Electric and Exxon, to stop discharging pollution and to clean up legacy contamination.[24][25]
In 1995, Kennedy advocated for repeal of the anti-environmental legislation during the 104th Congress.[26] In 1997, Kennedy co-authored The Riverkeepers with John Cronin. The book is a history of the early Riverkeepers and a primer for the Waterkeeper movement.[16]
Drawing on his experience investigating and prosecuting polluters on behalf of the Waterkeepers, Kennedy has written extensively about environmental law enforcement.[27]
Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic
In 1987, Kennedy founded the Environmental Litigation Clinic at Pace University School of Law, where he served for three decades as the clinic's supervising attorney and co-director, and as Clinical Professor of Law.[28] Kennedy obtained a special order from the New York State Court of Appeals that permitted his 10 clinic students–second- and third-year law students–to practice law and to try cases against Hudson River polluters in state and federal court, under the supervision of Kennedy and his co-director, Professor Karl Coplan. The clinic's full-time clients are Riverkeeper and Long Island Soundkeeper.[29]
The clinic has prosecuted numerous governments and companies for polluting Long Island Sound and the Hudson River and its tributaries.[30] The clinic argued cases to expand citizen access to the shoreline, and won hundreds of settlements for the Hudson Riverkeeper.[31] Kennedy and his students also sued dozens of municipal waste-water treatment plants to force compliance with the Clean Water Act.[32] In 2010, a Pace lawsuit forced ExxonMobil to clean up tens of millions of gallons of oil from legacy refinery spills in Newtown Creek in Brooklyn, New York.[33]
On April 11, 2001, Men's Journal recognized Kennedy with its "Heroes" Award for his creation of the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic.[34] Kennedy and his Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic received other awards for successful legal work cleaning up the environment.[35] The Pace Clinic became a model for similar environmental law clinics throughout the country including Rutgers,[36] Golden Gate, UCLA,[37] Widener,[38] and Boalt Hall at Berkeley.[39]
Waterkeepers Alliance
In June 1999, as Riverkeeper's success on the Hudson began inspiring the creation of Waterkeepers across North America, Kennedy and a few dozen Riverkeepers gathered in Southampton, Long Island to found the Waterkeeper Alliance, which now serves as the umbrella group for the 320 licensed Waterkeeper programs located in 38 countries.[40] As President of the Alliance, Kennedy oversees its legal, membership, policy and fundraising programs. The Alliance states that it is dedicated to promoting "swimmable, fishable, drinkable waterways, worldwide,"[41] and also serves as a clearinghouse, approving new Keeper programs and licensing use of the trademarked "Waterkeeper," "Riverkeeper," "Soundkeeper," "Lakekeeper," "Baykeeper," "Bayoukeeper," "Canalkeeper," "Coastkeeper," etc. names.[42]
Kennedy and his environmental work have been the focus of several films including The Hudson Riverkeepers(1998)[43] and The Waterkeepers (2000),[44] both directed by Les Guthman. In 2008, he appeared in the IMAX documentary film Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk (2008), riding the length of the Grand Canyon in a wooden dory with his daughter Kick and with anthropologist Wade Davis.[45]
New York City Watershed Agreement
Beginning in 1991, Kennedy represented environmentalists and New York City watershed consumers in a series of lawsuits against New York City, New York State, and upstate watershed polluters. Kennedy authored a series of articles and reports[46][47][48][49] alleging that New York State was abdicating its responsibility to protect the water repository and supply. In 1996, he helped orchestrate the $1.2 billion New York City Watershed Agreement, which New York Magazine recognized in its cover story, "The Kennedy Who Matters."[50] This agreement, which Kennedy negotiated on behalf of environmentalists and New York City watershed consumers, is regarded as an international model in stakeholder consensus negotiations and sustainable development.[51]
Kennedy & Madonna
In 2000, Kennedy and environmental lawyer Kevin Madonna founded the environmental law firm, Kennedy & Madonna, LLP, to represent private plaintiffs against polluters.[52] The firm litigates environmental contamination cases on behalf of individuals, non-profit organizations, school districts, public water suppliers, Indian tribes, municipalities and states. In 2001, Kennedy & Madonna organized a team of prestigious plaintiff law firms to challenge pollution from industrial pork and poultry production.[53] In 2004, the firm was part of a legal team that secured a $70 million settlement for property owners in Pensacola, Florida whose properties were contaminated by chemicals from an adjacent Superfund site.[54]
Kennedy & Madonna is profiled in the HBO documentary Mann v. Ford[55] that chronicles four years of litigation brought by the firm on behalf of the Ramapough Mountain Indian Tribe against the Ford Motor Company over the dumping of toxic waste on tribal lands in northern New Jersey.[56] In addition to a monetary settlement for the tribe, the lawsuit contributed to the community's land being re-listed on the federal superfund list, the first time in the nation's history that a de-listed site was re-listed.[57] In 2007 Kennedy was one of three finalists nominated as "Trial Lawyer of the Year" by Public Justice for his role in the $396 million jury verdict against DuPont for contamination from its Spelter, West Virginia zinc plant.[58] In 2017, the firm was part of the trial team that secured a $670 million settlement on behalf of over 3,000 residents from Ohio and West Virginia whose drinking water was contaminated with the toxic chemical, C8, which was released into the environment by DuPont in Parkersburg, West Virginia.[59]
In 2016, Kennedy became counsel to the Morgan & Morgan P.A. law firm.[60] The partnership arose from the two firms' successful collaboration on the case against SoCalGas Company following the Aliso Canyon gas leak in California.[61] In 2017, Kennedy and his partners sued Monsanto in federal court in San Francisco, on behalf of plaintiffs seeking to recover damages for non-Hodgkins lymphoma, that, the plaintiffs allege, were a result of exposure to Monsanto's glyphosate-based herbicide, Roundup. Kennedy and his team also filed a class action lawsuit against Monsanto for failing to warn consumers about the dangers allegedly posed by exposure to Roundup.[62]
Cleantech and renewable energy infrastructure entrepreneurship
In 1998, Kennedy, along with Chris Bartle and John Hoving, created a bottled-water company, Keeper Springs, which donated all of its profits to Waterkeeper Alliance.[63] In 2013, Kennedy and his partner sold the brand to Nestlé in exchange for a donation to local Waterkeepers.[64]
Kennedy served as a Venture Partner and Senior Advisor at VantagePoint Capital Partners, one of the world's largest cleantech venture capital firms. Among other activities, VantagePoint was the original and largest pre-IPO institutional investor in Tesla. VantagePoint also backed BrightSource Energy and Solazyme, amongst others. Kennedy serves as a board member and counselor to several of Vantage Point's portfolio companies in the water and energy space, including Ostara, a Vancouver-based company that markets the technology to remove phosphorus and other excessive nutrients from wastewater, transforming otherwise pollution directly into high grade fertilizer.[65] He is also a senior advisor to Starwood Energy Group, and has played a key role in a number of the firm's investments.[66]
He serves on the board of Vionx, a Massachusetts-based utility scale vanadium flow battery systems manufacturer. On October 5, 2017, Vionx, National Grid and the US Department of Energy completed the installation of advanced flow batteries at Holy Name High School in Worcester, Massachusetts. The collaboration also includes Siemens and the United Technologies Research Center and constitutes one of the largest energy storage facilities in Massachusetts.[67]
Kennedy is a Partner in ColorZen, which offers a turnkey cotton fiber pre-treatment solution that reduces water usage and toxic discharges in the cotton dying process.[68]
Kennedy was a co-owner and Director of the smart grid company Utility Integration Solutions (UISol),[69] which was acquired by Alstom. He is presently a co-owner and Director of GridBright, the market leading grid management specialist.[70]
In October 2011, Kennedy co-founded EcoWatch, the leading environmental news site. He continues to serve on its board.[71]
Minority and poor communities
Kennedy's first case as an environmental attorney was representing the NAACP in a lawsuit against a proposal to build a garbage transfer station in a minority neighborhood in Ossining, New York.[72]
In 1987, he successfully sued Westchester County, New York, to reopen the Croton Point park, which was heavily used primarily by poor and minority communities from the Bronx.[73] He then forced the reopening of the Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, which New York City had closed to the public and converted to a police firing range.[16] Kennedy also led a battle to stop a plan to sell Washington D.C.'s Kingman Island—one of the rare National Parks in a minority neighborhood—to a private developer. In 2004, Kennedy and Riverkeeper successfully sued Exxon to clean up a large oil spill on Newton Creek in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.[74]
Kennedy has argued that poor communities shoulder the disproportionate burden of environmental insults.[75] Speaking at SXSW Eco environmental conference in Austin in 2016, he said, "Polluters always choose the soft target of poverty," noting as an example the highest concentration of toxic waste dumps in America resides in the south side of Chicago,[76] and adding, "Four out of five uncontrolled toxic waste dumps are in black neighborhoods. The largest toxic waste dump in America is in Emelle, Alabama which is 90% black."[77]
International and indigenous rights
Beginning in 1985, Kennedy helped develop NRDC's international program for environmental, energy, and human rights. He worked on environmental issues across the Americas, and traveled regularly to Canada and Latin American to assist Indigenous tribes to protect their traditional homelands and to oppose large-scale energy and extractive projects in remote wilderness areas.[78]
In 1990, Kennedy assisted the Pehuenche Indians in Chile in a partially successful campaign to stop the construction of a series of dams on Chile's iconic Biobío River. That campaign derailed all but one of the proposed dams.[79] Beginning in 1992, he assisted the Cree Indians of northern Quebec in their campaign against Hydro-Québec to halt construction of some 600 proposed dams on eleven rivers in James Bay.[80]
In 1993, Kennedy and NRDC, working with the indigenous rights organization Cultural Survival, clashed with other American environmental groups in a dispute about the rights of Indians to govern their own lands in the Oriente region of Ecuador.[81] Kennedy represented the CONFENIAE, a confederation of Indian peoples, in negotiation with the American oil company Conoco to limit oil development in Ecuadorian Amazon and, at the same time, obtain benefits from resource extraction for Amazonian tribes.[81] Kennedy was a vocal critic of Texaco for its previous record for polluting the Ecuadoran Amazon.[82]
From 1993 to 1999, Kennedy worked with five Vancouver Island Indian tribes in their campaign to end industrial logging by MacMillan Bloedel in Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia.[83]
In 1996, Kennedy met with Cuban President Fidel Castro to persuade the leader to halt his plans to construct a nuclear power plant at Juraguá.[84] During a lengthy late night encounter, Castro reminisced about Kennedy's father and uncle, speculating that U.S. relations with Cuba would have been far better had President Kennedy not been assassinated.[85]
Between 1996 and 2000, Kennedy and NRDC helped Mexican commercial fishermen to halt Mitsubishi's proposal to build a salt facility in the Laguna San Ignacio, a gray whale breeding, calving and nursery area in Baja, Mexico.[86] Kennedy wrote extensively against the project, and took the campaign to Japan, meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister, Keizo Obuchi.[87]
In 2000, he assisted local environmental activists to stop proposals by South Carolinian real estate developer Chaffin/Light and the U.S. engineering giant, Bechtel, from building a large hotel and resort development that, Kennedy argued, threatened coral reefs and public beaches used extensively by local Bahamians, at Clifton Bay, New Providence Island, Bahamas.[88] Following this, the new Bahamian government designated the area a Heritage Park.[citation needed]
Kennedy was one of the early editors of Indian Country Today, North America's largest Native American newspaper.[89] He helped lead the opposition to the damming of the Futaleufú River in the Patagonia region of Chile.[90] In 2016, citing the pressure precipitated by the Futaleufú Riverkeeper's campaign against the dams, the Spanish power company, Endesa, which owned the right to dam the river, reversed its decision and relinquished all claims to the Futaleufú.[91]
Military and Vieques
Kennedy has been a critic of environmental damage by the US military.[92][93] In 1993, he successfully represented the Suquamish and Duwamish Indian tribes in a lawsuit against the U.S. Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington, to stop polluting Puget Sound.[94]
In an October 2001 Outside article titled "Why Are We In Vieques?" Kennedy described how he sued the United States Navy on behalf of fishermen and residents of the Island of Vieques, an island off Puerto Rico, to stop weapons testing, bombing, and the continuation of other military exercises on the Island. Kennedy argued that those activities were unnecessary for military preparedness, and that the Navy had illegally destroyed several endangered species, polluted the Island's waters, injured the health of Island residents and damaged the Island's economy.[95] He was arrested for trespassing at Camp Garcia Vieques, the United States Navy training facility, where he and others were protesting the use of a section of the island for training. Kennedy served 30 days in a maximum security prison in Puerto Rico.[96] The trespassing incident forced the suspension of live-fire exercises for almost three hours.[97] The lawsuits and protests by Kennedy, and hundreds of Puerto Ricans who were also imprisoned, eventually forced the termination of naval bombing in Vieques announced by president George Bush in 2001, and enacted in 2003.[98]
In a 2003 article for the Chicago Tribune, Kennedy wrote, "The federal government is America's biggest polluter and the Department of Defense is the government's worst offender. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, unexploded ordnance waste can be found on 16,000 military ranges across the U.S. and more than half may contain biological or chemical weapons. In total, the Pentagon is responsible for more than 21,000 potentially contaminated sites and, according to the EPA, the military may have poisoned as much as 40 million acres, a little larger than Florida."[99]
Factory farms
For almost twenty years, Kennedy and his Waterkeepers waged a legal and public relations battle against pollution by factory farms.[100] In the 1990s, he rallied opposition to factory farms among small independent farmers, convened a series of "National Summits" on factory meat products, and conducted press conference whistle stop tours across North Carolina, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio and in Washington DC.[101] Beginning in 2000, Kennedy sued factory farms in North Carolina, Oklahoma, Maryland, and Iowa.[102] He wrote numerous articles on the subject, arguing that factory farms produce lower quality, less healthy food, and are harmful to independent family farmers by poisoning their air and water, reducing their property values, and using extensive state and federal subsidies to impose unfair competition against smaller farmers.[103][104]
In 1995, Premier Ralph Klein of Alberta declared Kennedy persona non grata in the province due to Kennedy's activism against Alberta's large-scale hog production facilities.[105] In 2002, Smithfield Foods filed a lawsuit against Kennedy in Poland, under a Polish law that makes criticizing a corporation illegal, after Kennedy denounced the company in a debate with Smithfield's Polish director before the Polish parliament.[106]
Oil, gas, and pipelines
Kennedy has been an advocate for global transition away from fossil fuels to renewable energy.[107][108] He has been particularly critical of the oil industry. He began his career at Riverkeeper during the time the organization discovered Exxon's oil tankers stealing fresh water from the Hudson River for use in its Aruba refinery and to sell to Caribbean Islands. Riverkeeper won a $2 million settlement against Exxon and lobbied successfully for a state law outlawing the practice.[109] Among his first environmental cases was one against Mobil Oil for polluting the Hudson.[110]
Kennedy helped lead the battle against fracking in New York State.[111] He had been an early supporter of natural gas as viable bridge fuel to renewables, and a cleaner alternative to coal.[112] However, he said he turned against this controversial extraction method after investigating its cost to public health; climate and road infrastructure.[113] As a member of Governor Andrew Cuomo's fracking commission, Kennedy helped engineer the Governor's 2013 ban on fracking in New York State.[114][115]
Kennedy mounted a national effort against the construction of liquefied natural gas facilities.[116] Waterkeepers maintains a national watch that documents numerous crude oil spills annually. In Alaska, Kennedy was active in the fight to save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), the largest undisturbed ecosystem in North America, from drilling.[117]
In 2013, Kennedy assisted the Chipewyan First Nation and the Beaver Lake Cree fighting to protect their land from tar sands production.[118] In February 2013, while protesting the Keystone XL Pipeline Kennedy, along with his son, Conor, was arrested for blocking a thoroughfare in front of the White House during a protest.[119] In August 2016, Kennedy and Waterkeeper participated in protests to block the extension of the Dakota Access pipeline across the Sioux Indian Standing Rock Reservation's water supply.[120]
Kennedy claims that the only reason the oil industry is able to remain competitive against renewables and electric cars is through massive direct and indirect subsidies and political interventions on behalf of the oil industry. In a June 2017 interview on EnviroNews, Kennedy said about the oil industry, "That's what their strategy is: build as many miles of pipeline as possible. And what the industry is trying to do is to increase that level of infrastructure investment so our country won't be able to walk away from it.[121]
Coal
Under Kennedy's leadership, Waterkeeper launched its "Clean Coal is a Deadly Lie"[122] campaign in 2001, bringing dozens of lawsuits targeting mining practices, which include mountaintop removal,[123][124] slurry pond construction, and targeting mercury emissions and coal ash piles by coal burning utilities.[125] Kennedy's Waterkeeper alliance has also been leading the fight against coal export, including from terminals in the Pacific Northwest.[126][127]
Kennedy has promoted replacing coal energy with renewable energy, which, he argues, would thereby reduce costs and greenhouse gases while improving air and water quality, the health of the citizens, and the number and quality of jobs.[128] In June 2011, film producer Bill Haney televised his award-winning film, The Last Mountain, co-written by Haney and Peter Rhodes, depicting Kennedy's fight to stop Appalachian mountain top removal mining.[129]
Nuclear power
Kennedy has been an opponent of conventional nuclear power, arguing that it is unsafe and not economically competitive.[130][131] On June 15, 1981, he made international news when he spoke at an anti-nuclear rally at the Hollywood Bowl, with Stephen Stills, Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne.[132]
His thirty-year battle to close Indian Point nuclear power plant in New York ended in victory in January 2017, when Kennedy signed onto an agreement with New York State Governor, Andrew Cuomo, and Entergy, the plant's operator, to close the plant by 2021.[133][134] Kennedy was featured in a 2004 documentary, Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable, directed by his sister, documentary film maker, Rory Kennedy.[135]
Hydro
Kennedy has been an outspoken opponent of dams, particularly of dam projects that affect indigenous communities.
In 1991, Kennedy helped lead a campaign to block Hydro-Quebec from building the James Bay Hydro-project, a massive dam project in northern Quebec.[136] He was credited with mobilizing US political leaders and persuading New England lawmakers and New York officials, including New York Governor Mario Cuomo, to walk away from New York's multibillion-dollar contract with Hydro-Quebec. These actions helped to kill the project.[137][138]
His campaigns helped block dams on Chile's Bio Bio[139] and Futaleufu rivers in 1990 and 2016 respectively. In 2003, he mounted an ultimately unsuccessful battle against the building of a dam on the Macal River in Belize. Kennedy termed the Chalillo Dam "a boondoggle," and brought a high-profile legal challenge against a Canadian power company, Fortis Inc., the monopoly owner of Belize's electric utility.[140] That case ultimately lost in a split decision by the Privy Council in London, UK, the supreme court of British Commonwealth Nations.[140][141]
In 2004, Kennedy met with Provincial officials and brought foreign media and political visitors to Canada to protest the building of dams on Quebec's Magpie River.[142] Kennedy likened the damming of the Magpie for a mere 40 megawatts of power, "to selling the Mona Lisa for $15 in a garage sale."[143] On September 14, 2017, Hydro-Quebec announced that it will not build a hydroelectric dam on the Magpie River.[144]
In November 2017, the Spanish hydroelectric syndicate, Endesa, announced its decision to abandon HydroAysen, a massive project to construct dams on dozens of Patagonia’s rivers accompanied by thousands of miles of roads, power lines and other infrastructure. Endesa returned its water rights to the Chilean government. The Chilean press credits advocacy by Kennedy and Riverkeeper as critical factors in the company’s decision.[145]
Cape Wind
In 2005, Kennedy clashed with national environmental groups over his opposition to a wind farm off Cape Cod. Taking the side of Cape Cod's commercial fishing industry, Kennedy argued that the Cape Wind Project in Nantucket Sound was a costly boondoggle. This position angered some environmentalists, and brought Kennedy criticism by industry groups and Republicans[who?].[146][147]
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Personal views
Political criticisms
Throughout President George W. Bush's presidency, Kennedy was a persistent critic of Bush's environmental and energy policies. He accused Bush of defunding and corrupting federal science projects.[148] Kennedy's February 2004 article in The Nation, "The Junk Science of George W. Bush," in which he wrote, "The Bush Administration's first instinct when it comes to science has been to suppress, discredit or alter facts it doesn't like," has been recognized by Project Censored among top censored stories in their 2005 compilation.[149]
Kennedy was also critical of Bush's hydrogen car proposal, which he characterized as a gift to the fossil fuel industry disguised as a green automobile.[150]
Kennedy wrote an article entitled, "Crimes Against Nature" about Bush's environmental record.[151] The article, which was featured in the November 24, 2003 issue of Rolling Stone, was subsequently expanded into Kennedy's New York Times best-selling book of the same name, published by HarperCollins.[152] Kennedy's opposition to the environmental policies of the Bush administration earned him recognition as one of Rolling Stone's "100 Agents of Change" on April 2, 2009.[153][154]
In October 2012, Kennedy gave a phone interview with Politico, where he called on environmentalists to direct their dissatisfaction towards the U.S. Congress, rather than President Barack Obama. Kennedy reasoned that Obama "didn't deliver" due to having a partisan U.S. Congress "like we haven't seen before in American history."[155] He also accused politicians who failed to act on climate change policy as serving special interests and, selling out the public trust. He accused Charles and David Koch, the owners of Koch Industries, Inc., the nation's largest privately owned oil company, of subverting democracy and for "making themselves billionaires by impoverishing the rest of us."[156] Kennedy has spoken of the Koch Brothers as leading "the apocalyptical forces of Ignorance and Greed."[157]
During the 2014 People's Climate March, Kennedy said, "American politics is driven by two forces: One is intensity, and the other is money. The Koch brothers have all the money. They're putting $300 million this year into their efforts to stop the climate bill. And the only thing we have in our power is people power, and that's why we need to put this demonstration on the street."[158]
Food allergies
Kennedy was a founding board member of the Food Allergy Initiative. His son Conor suffers from anaphylaxis peanut allergies. Kennedy wrote the foreword to The Peanut Allergy Epidemic, in which he and the authors link increasing food allergies in children to certain vaccines that were approved beginning in 1989.[159]
Views on autism and vaccines
Kennedy has been a long-term advocate for reducing mercury exposures from industry and medicine.[160] and is an outspoken opponent of the inclusion of the mercury-based preservative, thimerosal, in vaccines.
In June 2005, Kennedy authored an article in Rolling Stone and Salon.com titled Deadly Immunity alleging a government conspiracy to conceal a connection between thimerosal and the epidemic of childhood neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism.[161] The article contained five factual errors, leading Salon.com to issue corrections.[162] Kennedy argued that the errors were insignificant and that some were made by Salon during the editing process.[163] Six years later, on January 16, 2011, Salon retracted the article completely.[162] According to Salon, the retraction was motivated by accumulating evidence of errors and scientific fraud underlying the vaccine-autism claim.[164] Kennedy has accused Salon.com of caving into pressure from the pharmaceutical industries.[163] Rolling Stone stands by Kennedy's story – as noted by Rolling Stone's editor: "The link to this much-debated story by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was inadvertently broken during our redesign in the spring of 2010. (We did not remove the story from the site, as some have incorrectly alleged, nor ever contemplated doing so.)".[161]
In 2014 Kennedy published a book, Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak: The Evidence Supporting the Immediate Removal of Mercury—a Known Neurotoxin—from Vaccines, which is an overview of over 400 published peer-reviewed studies on thimerosal.[165] Kennedy has published many articles on the inclusion of the mercury-based preservative thimerosal in vaccines, which have appeared in Huffington Post,[166] EcoWatch,[167][168] and The Boston Globe.[169]
In April 2015, Kennedy participated in a Speakers' Forum to promote the film, Trace Amounts, which links autism to mercury in vaccinations.[170] At a screening of the film, Kennedy described the autism epidemic as a "holocaust."[171] He also spoke to vaccine safety advocates and testified before legislative bodies in Oregon, California, Indiana and New York to oppose new bills mandating vaccination.[172]
Kennedy has regularly appeared in the media to discuss the issue of a correlation between vaccines, mercury, thimerosol and neurodevelopmental disorders. On April 24, 2015, Kennedy appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher[173], and on April 25 and July 10, 2017 on Tucker Carlson Tonight[174][175].
While the issue continues to divide the scientific community, revelations in 2014 by CDC senior scientist and whistleblower, Dr. William Thompson, provided damning proof that the CDC had doctored and hid findings showing the MMR vaccine was causing autism in children taking part in their CDC study[176][177][178]. On October 19, 2016, in light of Dr. William Thompson’s admissions, World Mercury Project announced that Kennedy, as legal counsel to a vaccine-damaged child, had sought to have Dr. William Thompson testify in the proceedings and that the request had been blocked by Thomas Frieden, president of the CDC.[179]
On December 14, 2016, Kennedy launched the World Mercury Project (WMP), an advocacy group with the mission to end exposures to mercury and other toxic metals in medicine and in industry.[180]
On January 10, 2017, incoming White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer confirmed that Kennedy and President-elect Donald Trump met to discuss a position in the Trump Administration. Kennedy accepted an offer made by Trump to become the chairman of the Vaccine Safety Task Force. A spokeswoman for Trump's transition said that no final decision had been made.[181] In an August 2017 interview with STAT News reporter Helen Branwell, Kennedy said that he had been meeting with the Federal public health regulators to discuss alleged defects in vaccine safety science, at the White House's request.[182]
On February 15, 2017, Kennedy and actor Robert De Niro gave a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington D.C., in which they accused the press of acting as propagandists for the $35 billion vaccination industry and refusing to allow debates on vaccination science. They offered a $100,000 reward to any journalist or other citizen who could point to a study showing that it is safe to inject mercury into babies and pregnant women at levels currently contained in flu vaccines.[183]
On September 17, 2017, World Mercury Project announced additional findings of "New Evidence of Ongoing Bad Science Being Supported by the CDC".[184][185]
Views on the murder of Martha Moxley
In January 2003, Kennedy wrote a controversial article in The Atlantic Monthly entitled "A Miscarriage of Justice" about the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley in Greenwich, Connecticut. In the article, Kennedy insists that Michael Skakel's indictment "was triggered by an inflamed media, and that an innocent man is now in prison". Skakel and Kennedy are first cousins, Kennedy's mother and Skakel's father are siblings. Kennedy's article presents the argument that there is more evidence suggesting that Kenneth Littleton, the Skakel family's live-in tutor, killed Moxley. He also calls Dominick Dunne the "driving force" behind Skakel's prosecution.[186] In July 2016, Kennedy released a book entitled Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit.[187] In September 2017, the rights to Kennedy's book were optioned by FX Productions to develop a multi-part television series.[188][189]
Views on JFK assassination and the Warren Commission
On the evening of January 11, 2013, Charlie Rose interviewed Robert Kennedy Jr. and his sister Rory in Dallas at the Winspear Opera House. This was part of Mayor Mike Rawlings' hand-chosen committee's year long program of celebrating the life and presidency of John F. Kennedy. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he was convinced that Lee Harvey Oswald was not solely responsible for the assassination of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy; and said his father Robert Kennedy was "fairly convinced" that others besides Oswald were involved in his brother's assassination and privately believed the Warren Commission report was a "shoddy piece of craftsmanship."[190] Kennedy was 9 years old when President Kennedy was assassinated and 14 years old when Robert Kennedy was assassinated.
Views on U.S. foreign policy
Kennedy has written extensively on foreign policy issues, beginning with a 1974 Atlantic Monthly article entitled, "Poor Chile," discussing the overthrow of Chilean President, Salvador Allende.[191] Kennedy also wrote editorials against the execution of Pakistan President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq.[192][193] In 1975, he published an article in The Wall Street Journal, criticizing the use of assassination as a foreign policy tool.[194] In 2005, he wrote an article for the Los Angeles Times decrying President Bush's use of torture as anti-American.[195] Senator Edward Kennedy entered the article into the Congressional Record.[196]
In an article entitled "Why the Arabs Don't Want Us in Syria," published in Politico in February 2016, Kennedy referred to the "bloody history that modern interventionists like George W. Bush, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio miss when they recite their narcissistic trope that Mideast nationalists 'hate us for our freedoms.' For the most part they don't; instead they hate us for the way we betrayed those freedoms — our own ideals — within their borders."[197] Kennedy blames the Syrian war on a pipeline dispute. He cites wiki-leaks documents alleging that the CIA led military and intelligence planners to foment a Sunni uprising against Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, following his rejection of a proposed Qatar-Turkey pipeline through Syria in 2009, well before the Arab Spring.[198] In 2013, Kennedy wrote an article for Rolling Stone exploring President John F. Kennedy's difficult struggle with his own military and intelligence apparatus to keep America out of war and from becoming an imperial state.[199]
Political endorsements
Kennedy served on the National Staff and as a State Coordinator for Edward M. Kennedy for President from 1979 to 1980. Prior to that he had served on Senator Kennedy's 1970 and 1976 Massachusetts Senatorial Campaigns. He was a co-founder and a former board member of the New York League of Conservation Voters.[200][201]
Kennedy endorsed and campaigned extensively for Vice President Al Gore during the 2000 Presidential Campaign for Election. Kennedy openly opposed his friend Ralph Nader's Green party presidential campaign, predicting that Nader's effect could sink the Gore campaign and put George W. Bush into the White House. In the 2004 American presidential election, Kennedy endorsed John Kerry, noting his strong environmental record.[202]
In late 2007, Kennedy and his sisters Kerry and Kathleen announced that they would be endorsing Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Presidential Primary.[203] Following the Democratic Convention, Kennedy campaigned for Obama across the country.[204] After the election, he was named as a front-runner for Obama's EPA administrator.[205]
Kennedy has been critical of the integrity of the voting process. In June 2006 he published an analysis in Rolling Stone magazine purporting to show that GOP operatives stole the 2004 election for President George W Bush. Kennedy's conclusions were strongly attacked by Farhad Manjoo in a June 3, 2006 Salon.com article.[206] However, in a critical response to Monjoo's attack, historian Eric Zuesse argued that Kennedy's analysis had been correct.[207]
Kennedy has written frequent warnings about the ease of election hacking and the dangers of voter purges and voter ID laws. He wrote the introduction and a chapter in Billionaires and Ballot Bandits, a 2012 book on election hacking by investigative journalist Greg Palast.[208]
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Political aspirations
Kennedy first considered running for political office in 2000, when New York Senator Moynihan announced he would not seek re-election to the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by Kennedy's father.[209] His father was elected to the same seat in 1964, and held it for 41 months, until his death in 1968.
In 2005, Kennedy considered running for New York Attorney General. With the possibility of a matchup against his then brother-in-law, Andrew Cuomo, generating media interest, Kennedy again decided not to run, despite being considered the frontrunner if he were to run.[210]
Kennedy announced on December 2, 2008, that he did not wish to be appointed to the U.S. Senate, by then New York Governor, David Paterson, feeling it would take too much time away from his family.[211]
Media work
Kennedy co-hosts the Ring of Fire radio program alongside Mike Papantonio,[212] even though Kennedy suffers from spasmodic dysphonia, a disorder that makes speech difficult, and causes the voice to sound quivery.[213] The show provides progressive news and commentary.
Kennedy has written two books and several articles on environmental issues. His articles have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, The Nation, Outside magazine, and The Village Voice.
Bibliography
Kennedy has authored or edited ten books on subjects ranging from the environment to science, biography and American heroes, including two bestsellers and three children's books.
- Russell, Dick; Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (2017). Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Men Who Are Destroying Life on Earth And What it Means for Our Children. New York: Scribner. p. 304. ISBN 9781510721753.
- Kennedy, Robert F, Jr. (2016). Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison For a Murder He Didn't Commit. New York: Skyhorse Publishing. p. 240. ISBN 9781510701779.
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- Kennedy, Robert F, Jr., ed. (1992). The Billings Collection. Boston: John F. Kennedy Library.
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Children's books
- Kennedy, Robert F, Jr. (2008). Robert Smalls: The Boat Thief. New York: Hyperion. p. 48. ISBN 1423108027.
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Selected articles
Kennedy has penned numerous academic and general interest articles, as well as op-eds for magazines, journals, and newspapers. His writings have been included in anthologies of America's Best Crime Writing,[214] Best Political Writing,[215] and Best Science Writing.[216] Kennedy's writings have appeared in: The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Houston Chronicle, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Esquire, New York Daily News, The Atlantic Monthly, and Huffington Post, among others. His writings range over diverse topics including oil, coal, green energy, election integrity, politics, the media, falconry, foreign policy, and civil rights. Kennedy is also a frequently published travel writer.
- June 25, 2017 – "Meet the horsemen of our environmental apocalypse". Salon.com[217]
- Jan. 18, 2017 – "CDC Knew its Vaccine Program Was Exposing Children to Dangerous Mercury Levels Since 1999". Ecowatch[218]
- September 12, 2016 – "20 Year David and Goliath Fist Fight Saves Patagonia's Futaleufú". EcoWatch[219]
- November 20, 2013 – "John F. Kennedy's Vision of Peace". Rolling Stone[220]
- June 14, 2013 – "Make New York the solar hub for the East Coast". Newsday [221]
- March 25, 2009 – "Stopping Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining". Washington Post[222]
- December 8, 2009 – "The Next President's First Task (A Manifesto)". Vanity Fair[223]
- June 28, 2007 – "What Must Be Done". Rolling Stone[224]
- May 2007 – "Texas Chainsaw Management". Vanity Fair[225]
- June 5, 2006 – "Was the 2004 Election Stolen?". Rolling Stone[226]
- June 3 - July 14, 2005 – "Deadly Immunity". Rolling Stone[227]
- February 13, 2005 – "Kyoto Treaty Takes Off Without U.S.". Chicago Tribune[228]
- March 8, 2004 – "The Junk Science of George W. Bush". The Nation[229]
- November 24, 2003 – "Crimes Against Nature". Rolling Stone[230]
- January/February 2003 – "A Miscarriage of Justice".[231]
- October 2001 – "Why Are We In Vieques?". Outside[232]
- February 8, 1996 – "Don't Let Congress Gut The Clean Air Act". Newsday
- April 21, 1994 – "The Threat to New York's Watershed". New York Post
- 1993 (with Steven P. Solow) – "Environmental Litigation as Clinical Education: A Case Study". University of Oregon Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation Volume 8
- August 26, 1992 – "Driving Out Conoco Disservice to Rain Forests". The Houston Chronicle
Personal life
General Interests
Kennedy is a licensed master falconer, and has trained hawks since he was 11. He breeds hawks and falcons and is also licensed as a raptor propagator and a wildlife rehabilitator.[233] He holds permits for Federal Game Keeper, Bird Bander, and Scientific Collector. He was President of the New York State Falconry Association from 1988 to 1991. In 1987, while serving on Governor Mario Cuomo's New York State Falconry Advising Committee, Kennedy authored the examination to qualify apprentice falconers given by New York State. Later that year he wrote the New York State Apprentice Falconer's Manual, which was published by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and continues in use today.[234]
Kennedy is also a whitewater kayaker. His father introduced him and his siblings to whitewater kayaking during early trips down the Green and Yampa Rivers in Utah and Colorado, the Columbia River, the Middle Fork Salmon in Idaho, and the Upper Hudson Gorge. From 1976 to 1981, Kennedy was a partner and guide at a white water company, "Utopian," based in West Forks, Maine. He organized and led several "first-descent" white-water expeditions to Latin America including three to hitherto unexplored rivers: the Apurimac, Peru, in 1975; the Atrato, Colombia, in 1979; and the Caroni,Venezuela, in 1982.[235] He made an early descent of Great Whale River in Northern Quebec, in 1993,[236] and has made many trips to Patagonia, Chile to run the Biobío River, the Futaleufú and other whitewater rivers.
In 2015, he took two of his sons to the Yukon to visit Mount Kennedy and run the Alsek River, a whitewater river fed by the Alsek Glacier, which flows off Mt. Kennedy. Mt. Kennedy was the highest unclimbed peak in Canada, when the Canadian Government named it for the assassinated American president, in 1964.[237] Kennedy's father, Robert Kennedy, was the first to climb Mt. Kennedy in 1965.[238]
Marriages and children
Kennedy married Emily Ruth Black (born 1957) on April 3, 1982.[239] They had two children: Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy III (born 1984) and Kathleen Alexandra "Kick" Kennedy (born 1988). The couple separated in 1992 and divorced on March 25, 1994.[240]
On April 15, 1994, Kennedy married Mary Kathleen Richardson (1959–2012) aboard a research vessel on the Hudson River.[241] They had four children: John Conor Richardson Kennedy (born 1994), Kyra LeMoyne Kennedy (born 1995), William Finbar "Finn" Kennedy (born 1997), and Aidan Caohman Vieques Kennedy (born 2001). On May 12, 2010, Kennedy filed for divorce from Mary; three days later she was charged with drunken driving. On May 16, 2012, Mary was found dead in a building on the grounds of her Mount Kisco, New York, home; the death was ruled by the Westchester County medical examiner to be suicide due to asphyxiation from hanging.[242]
Kennedy and actress-director Cheryl Hines married on August 2, 2014, at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.[243]
Controversies
In 1983, at age 29, Kennedy was arrested in a Rapid City, South Dakota airport for heroin possession after a search of his carry-on bag uncovered 0.0064 oz of the drug.[244] Upon entering a plea of guilty, Kennedy was sentenced to two years' probation, and 1,500 hours of community service by Presiding Judge Marshall P. Young.[245] Following his arrest, Kennedy voluntarily entered a drug treatment center.[246]
In 1999, Kennedy hired, for Riverkeeper, William Wegner, a fishery scientist and falconer who had been sentenced to five years and served three years in prison, after pleading guilty to federal criminal charges for smuggling bird eggs from Australia.[247] In 2000, Robert Boyle, Riverkeeper's founder and former president, fired Wegner, citing his criminal conviction, but Kennedy re-hired Wegner, believing he should be given a second chance. A majority of the Riverkeeper Board supported Kennedy's decision, but seven members joined Boyle in resigning.[248]
In September 2013, The New York Post released excerpts from Kennedy's stolen 2001 diary, in which Kennedy described multiple affairs,[249] and penned his opinions about public figures.[250] Kennedy said the paper had printed "...excerpts from a 13-year-old diary illegally stolen from me...".[250]
Selected awards and recognition
Over the course of his career, Kennedy has received numerous awards in his name and on behalf of organizations and causes that he has championed.
- 2017, Earth Justice Mountain Heroes[251]
- 2017, Foro La Region Award for "La Proteccion de los Recrsos Naturales"[252]
- 2017, Moms Across America Healthy Communities Award
- 2014, Stroud Award of Freshwater Excellence[253]
- 2009, Rolling Stone "100 Agents of Change"[154]
- 2008, USC Dornsife Sustainability Champion Award[254]
- 2008, Theodre Gordon Flyfishers Conservation Award[255]
- 2007, Vanity Fair "The Green Team"[256]
- 2005, William O. Douglas Award, on behalf of the Waterkeeper Alliance[257]
- 2004, Riverkeeper's Environmental Excellence Award
- 2004, Marshall P. Madison Award
- 2003, Professional Resource Award, NY State Council of Trout Unlimited[255]
- 2001, Distinguished Service Award presented at Pace Law School's 25th Anniversary [258]
- 2001, Men's Journal "Heroes" Award[259]
- 2001, Louisiana Environmental Action Award
- 2000, 12th Annual Manhattan Award[260]
- 2000, Jacques Sartisky Peace Award[260]
- 2000, New York State Champion of the Environment[261]
- 1999, Time Magazine's "Heroes of the Planet"[154]
- 1999, Aquarium Conservation Award
- 1998, William E. Ricker Resource Conservation Award[262]
- 1998, Water Watch Award – New York National Boat Show Awards, on behalf of the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic
- 1997, EPA Environmental Quality Award[260]
- 1997, The Brave 40 Award from NYC Department of Environmental Conservation[260]
- 1997, Thomas Berry Environmental Award, presented to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic[263]
- 1996, Great Steward of the Hudson Valley - Storm King Award for New York City Watershed Agreement
- 1995, Green Star Award presented by the Environmental Action Coalition[263]
- 1991, Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Award[264]
See also
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- ^ Rogers, Shelagh, host, and Carty, Bob, reporter (Feb 12, 2001). "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warns Canada about Pollution from Pork Industry". This Morning: CBC Digital Archives.
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- ^ Overheard with Evan Smith. (May 5, 2011). "Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – Fossil Fuels". PBS.org
- ^ AP (April 26, 1984). "Exxon is Sued by New York over Use of Hudson Water". The New York Times.
- ^ Cronin, John; Kennedy Jr., Robert F. (1997). The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right. New York: Scribner. p.304. ISBN 0684839083.
- ^ AP (March 02, 2013). "New York fracking held as Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talk health, AP sources say". Syracuse.com.
- ^ Isensee, Laura (October 28, 2009). "Robert Kennedy Jr: solar and natural gas belong together". Reuters
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- ^ AP (March 02, 2013). "Cuomo met with RFK Jr. on fracking". Politico.
- ^ Hayim, Danny (September 30, 2012). "Shift by Cuomo on Gas Drilling Prompts Both Anger and Praise". The New York Times.
- ^ Staff writer (May 19, 2015). "Rally Against Pipelines". Salem Weekly.
- ^ Jones, Susan (July 7, 2008). "ANWR Protest: 'Don't Drill, Storm Capitol Hill'". CNSnews.com.
- ^ Weber, Bob (June 12, 2013) "Prominent U.S. Keystone critic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to visit oilsands". Macleans.
- ^ Spear, Stefanie (February 13, 2013). "Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Bill McKibben, Michael Brune, Among Others Will Risk Arrest Today at White House to Stop Tar Sands, Keystone XL Pipeline". Ecowatch.
- ^ Manning, Sarah Sunshine (November 16, 2016). "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Visits Standing Rock on #NoDAPL Day of Action". Indian Country Today.
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- ^ Jervey, Ben (Julay 1, 2009). "Mountop Removal Must End". Good.
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