Linda Gordon
Researcher, Climate Justice Program
Human Rights Center
Bio
Linda Gordon is currently the Climate Justice Researcher for the Human Rights Center, leading a study on the health, safety, and economic impacts of wildfire evacuation protocols for agricultural workers in California. She is in her third year at Berkeley Law. Linda’s interests are focused on impact litigation, advocacy, and research in the context of climate justice, environmental health, and labor law. In law school, she has represented Berkeley Law in the National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition and served as the media director for Ecology Law Quarterly, co-director of the Berkeley Law Workers’ Rights Clinic, and served on the board of the Berkeley Plaintiffs’ Law Association. Before law school, Linda worked as the Grant Program Coordinator at the Impact Fund, funding for social, economic, and environmental justice impact litigation.
Publications
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UN human rights experts express alarm over PFAS pollution in North Carolina[1]
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References
- On behalf of communities in North Carolina who are being exposed to inhumane levels of PFAS “forever” chemicals, HRC climate researcher Linda Gordon and her team in the Berkeley Law environmental law clinic drafted and submitted a complaint to the Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights in April 2023. They worked specifically with the community group Clean Cape Fear to outline the severity of PFAS contamination in the communities surrounding the Fayetteville Chemours chemical plant and violations of the right to clean water, bodily integrity, information, an effective remedy, and a clean, healthy and sustainable environment for the local residents. In November 2023, the UN Human Rights Committee took up the allegations outlined in the complaint and released the results of their investigation into corporate and government actors.
- On behalf of communities in North Carolina who are being exposed to inhumane levels of PFAS “forever” chemicals, HRC climate researcher Linda Gordon and her team in the Berkeley Law environmental law clinic drafted and submitted a complaint to the Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights in April 2023. They worked specifically with the community group Clean Cape Fear to outline the severity of PFAS contamination in the communities surrounding the Fayetteville Chemours chemical plant and violations of the right to clean water, bodily integrity, information, an effective remedy, and a clean, healthy and sustainable environment for the local residents. In November 2023, the UN Human Rights Committee took up the allegations outlined in the complaint and released the results of their investigation into corporate and government actors.
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