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1Jill Krueger, J.D., serves as the director of the Northern Region of the Network for Public Health Law. Previously, she was an attorney with Farmers' Legal Action Group and the Minnesota Attorney General's Office. Betsy Lawton, J.D., is a senior staff attorney with the Network for Public Health Law, Northern Region. Before joining the Network, Betsy spent over a decade working to improve water quality as an attorney with Midwest Environmental Advocates and the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy.
Abstract:
The power to change the natural environment has received relatively little attention in public health law, yet is a core concern within environmental and agricultural law. Examples from environmental and agricultural law may inform efforts to change the natural environment in order to reduce the health impacts of climate change. Public health lawyers who attend to the natural environment may succeed in elevating health concerns within the environmental and agricultural law spheres, while gaining new tools for their public health law toolbox.
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