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About
Welcome to PSR's Environmental Health Policy
Institute, where we ask questions -- then we ask the experts to
answer them. Join us as physicians, health professionals,
and environmental health experts share their ideas, inspiration, and
analysis about toxic chemicals and environmental health policy.
Topics
- State Toxics Policy April 30, 2013
- Obesogens March 20, 2013
- Clean Energy December 12, 2012
- Radioactivity and Health October 31, 2012
- How Effective Is the EPA? September 24, 2012
- Particulate Matter August 22, 2012
- Hydraulic Fracturing June 18, 2012
- The Future of Toxics Advocacy May 18, 2012
- Toxics and brain development April 9, 2012
- Coal Ash March 2, 2012
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Patti Goldman
Patti Goldman is Vice President
for Litigation at Earthjustice, where she works with Earthjustice’s regional
offices to mount strategic campaigns that produce lasting and often
groundbreaking environmental safeguards. Whether addressing global warming,
toxic pollution, wildlife protection, or management of lands owned by the
American people, Earthjustice chooses cases for maximum, far-reaching impact.
Patti ensures that our actions will continue to catalyze broad environmental
protection, prevent irretrievable losses, and ensure that the laws already on
the books stay there and are put to work to protect a healthy environment for
future generations.
For a decade prior to joining
Earthjustice, Patti Goldman worked for Public Citizen Litigation Group. In
1983, she graduated from University of Wisconsin Law School magna cum laude and
Order of the Coif, where she served as editor in chief of the Wisconsin Law
Review. After graduating, she clerked for a federal district judge and worked
on women's civil rights litigation through a Georgetown University Law School
fellowship. She has a B.A. in economics from the University of Wisconsin.
Posts
Pesticides in the Air: Kids at Risk, August 24, 2011