Willamette law professor appointed to lead federal environmental justice efforts

Robin Morris Collin was appointed a senior advisor to the U.S. Environmental Protection Administration in February 2022 after almost 20 years teaching law at Willamette University (Courtesy/Willamette University)

Robin Morris Collin knows the impacts of climate change aren’t spread evenly around. 

Like most other environmental problems, they hit people already marginalized harder – farmworkers laboring outdoors in extreme temperatures, or Oregonians who can’t afford air conditioning during a heat wave.

After almost two…

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