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In reply to the discussion: Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Robert F Kennedy Jr.? [View all]womanofthehills
(9,384 posts)Pursing a career?????
He has been one of the top US environmental lawyers for 35 yrs - took over 500 polluters of our rivers, land and air to court esp representing poor and indigenous communities in US & South American. He was even jailed in SA for his activism.
He & his team won the first big case against Bayer/Monsanto - the beginning of the thousands of glyphosate causing cancer cases. He won $290 million for Lee Johnson a groundskeeper. Now Bayer has put out $10 billion to settle thousands of cases of Hodgkins lymphoma.
He currency works for the largest law firm in the US and is now representing over 1000 people who became sick in Columbiana County, Ohio - people whose lives were changed for the worse after the East Palestine train derailment where the RR ignited the toxic chemicals. He is often in East Palestine- having coffee with the locals residents. I
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wins historic $290 million case against giant Monsanto and Roundup weed-killer
Environmental lawyer, the son of the late U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy and nephew President John F. Kennedy, and his team, have won a historic case claiming the product likely caused the cancer of their client. https://www.irishcentral.com/news/robert-f-kennedy-case-monsanto-roundup-weed-killer