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‘Green’ Lawyer Seeing Red Over Environmental Abuse
By Mr Ethanol | April 21, 2008
“I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait ’til oil and coal run out before we tackle that.” — Thomas Alva Edison
Gary Post Tribune:
The first Earth Day was April 22, 1970. Today, more than half a billion people participate in Earth Day Network campaigns.
My travels take me to beautiful downtown Valparaiso. At Valparaiso High School, Kim Ferraro’s eldest daughter wears a green singlet for the Viking track team.
Kim E. Ferraro Esq. is a “green” lawyer — not green as in inexperienced. She is the founder and executive director of Legal Environmental Aid Foundation of Indiana Inc. (L.E.A.F.). She also started the Northwest Indiana chapter of “Green Drinks,” where “eco-freaks” meet once a month to let their hair down and discuss environmental issues.
Ferraro, 44, was born and raised in Austin, Texas. She and her husband moved to the Midwest 22 years ago so she could attend the Valparaiso University School of Law. Her husband also is a lawyer.
They live in Valpo with their two daughters, ages 16 and 12. In October, Ferraro opened her not-for-profit law practice in Valparaiso.
“I’ve been an environmental activist for more than a decade,” Ferraro begins. “That is the sole reason I went to law school and opened my law practice. Before I went to law school, I was a paralegal. I was very unchallenged and unhappy at work, but certainly recognized how lawyers can effect societal change for the good or bad, depending on the types of cases they’re involved in and what side they’re on.
“There are laws in the books that are not being enforced because most environmental lawyers go to work for companies like BP.”
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