Barry Commoner Dies, National Environmental Leader

Share This Post

Barry Commoner, a national enviromental leader, died this week.  He was 95 years old.  Commoner, a professor of Queens College in New York City, and author of many books, was well-known for his precedent-setting studies on dioxin in the environment, incineration and other environmental issues.  CHEJ honored Commoner at a reception two years ago.  He will be sorely missed, but his environmental legacy lives on.

More To Explore

What is Community Organizing

Community organizing is the process of building power through involving a constituency in identifying problems they share and the solutions to these problems that they