Please note, the videos on this page don't even represent 5% of all the videos you can find of Kennedy, fighting for our environment. I'm posting some here, but please feel free to do your own research!
RFK Jr.’s Hudson River Cleanup Legacy.
RFK Jr.: Protecting Our Purple Mountains Majesties
Environmental Advocacy: RFK Jr.'s Plan for a Sustainable Future
Earth Day Message From One of America’s Leading Environmentalists, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Candidate for President
Los Angeles, CA—APRIL 22, 2023—Environmental protection binds us to our own humanity and to all of creation. The natural world connects us to the 10,000 generations of human beings who lived before us and ultimately connects us to God. God talks to human beings through many vectors: through each other, through organized religion, through the great books of those religions, through wise people, through art, music, literature, and poetry. But nowhere with such detail and grace, color, and joy as through creation. When we destroy a species, when we destroy a special place, we're diminishing our capacity to sense the divine, understand who God is, and what our own potential is as human beings.
On Earth Day 2023, I join the millions of people around the world celebrating our Earth, and I recommit to the solemn responsibility of caring for and defending the precious planet we call home.
Our sacred obligation as a civilization, a nation, a generation is to create communities for our children that provide them with the same opportunities for dignity and enrichment, prosperity, and good health as the communities that our parents gave us.
As President, I will tirelessly protect our environmental infrastructure: the air we breathe, the water we drink, our wildlife, the fisheries, and the public lands. Environmental stewardship will be a central goal of my Presidency, just as it has been for my entire life.
In 1961, when I was seven years old, I visited my uncle, President John F. Kennedy, Jr., in the Oval Office in the White House and presented him with a salamander to share my love and concern for the health of other species. It was that meeting that began my commitment to the environment.
President John F. Kennedy visits with his nephew, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.; RFK, Jr., presented his uncle with a salamander, "Shadrach." Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. Photo credit: Abbie Rowe. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston
When I started my career as an environmental attorney, I wanted to be in the trenches, engaging against the big polluters. I wanted to work with people who were not only most harmed by environmental injury, but who also were marginalized from the mainstream environmental community.
My first case as an environmental lawyer was representing the NAACP in a lawsuit against Ossining, New York, for trying to put a waste transfer station in the oldest Black neighborhood in the Hudson Valley. During that lawsuit, I learned that four out of every five toxic waste dumps in our country are in a Black neighborhood. The largest toxic waste dump in this country is Emelle, Alabama, which is 85% Black. The highest concentration of toxic waste dumps in this country is the south side of Chicago. The most contaminated zip code in California is East L.A. and at that time, 48% of Black youth had dangerous levels of lead in their blood, which led to dramatically reduced IQ, and also caused severe behavioral problems. What I learned from that case ignited a fire in me to spend the next 30 years fighting those kinds of issues.
In the early 2000s, I successfully sued the U.S. Navy to stop polluting one of the poorest communities in our country: the Black and Brown people who live on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, who are American citizens. I was even jailed for a summer in 2001 for protesting the actions of the U.S. Navy in Vieques.
For decades, I have worked alongside a blue-collar coalition of commercial and recreational fishermen on the Hudson River to reclaim the river from its polluters. The Hudson River is the oldest commercial fishery in North America. Yet, in 1966, the Penn Central Railroad began spilling oil from a pipe in the Croton-Harmon railyard. The oil went up the Hudson River on the tides. It blackened the beaches, and it made the fish taste like diesel so they couldn't be sold. The river even caught on fire, and turned colors, depending on what color they were painting the trucks at the Tarrytown GM plant. I joined forces with the community of Crotonville, New York, to monitor the river for illegal polluters. Over the next couple of decades, we brought more than 500 successful legal actions against Hudson River polluters. That model inspired the creation of the Waterkeepers Alliance. With more than 300 Waterkeepers in 47 countries, we're now the biggest water protection group in the world.
I have dedicated my life to protecting the precious resources of the Earth. Environmental stewardship will be a core objective of my Presidency. Environmental protection is critical to social and racial justice, to America’s economic prosperity, and to the survival of humanity.
Learn more at Kennedy24.com.
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You can see this post, below, on The Kennedy Beacon's Substack, by CLICKING HERE.
What Bobby Said: In a Rare Uncut Video Clip, RFK Jr. Rails Against Big Polluters
As Earth Day turns fifty-four, we celebrate Kennedy’s environmental legacy
By Leah Watson, The Kennedy Beacon
In an uncut 2014 interview with former Republican political aide Marc Morano, Kennedy stands near Columbus Circle in New York City, on Earth Day, at the People’s Climate March. He reflects on the evolution of the environmental movement and rails against big polluters.
“I remember what it was like then,” says an animated Kennedy, referring to the first Earth Day in 1970, also in NYC. “The Lake Erie was declared dead, the Cuyahoga River was burning, the Santa Barbara oil spill had destroyed the beaches in Southern California,” says an animated Kennedy.
Kennedy recalls how there was little hope that things would change. However, the creation of “Earth Day” inspired some 20 million Americans to take to the streets and protest against pollutants, oil spills, and factory emissions in an effort to protect and preserve the planet.
“Over the next 10 years we passed 28 major environmental laws in this country that protect our air, water, wildlife, fisheries [and] public lands,” Kennedy tells Morano.
Kennedy grows passionate and angry when asked about big polluters, expressing disdain for large polluters, including companies like Shell, Exxon, and Chevron. He’s especially irate about the Koch brothers, accusing them of feeding millions of dollars into the political process so that in return, politicians do the Koch brothers’ bidding and promote climate crisis skepticism. When asked about ‘skeptic’ politicians, Kennedy calls such people “contemptible human beings” and says he wishes there was an existing law that could punish them.
Since then, Kennedy has re-thought some of his views on the environment and climate change.
“Having seen what happened with COVID, if I had known that back then I probably would not have made that speech,” said Kennedy in an interview on ReasonTV with Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller.
“There's a lot of things that I know now, that I think the issue is more complex today than it seemingly was at that point,” said Kennedy, expressing regret about statements he made in 2014.
In a recent interview with Politico, Kennedy spoke about creating a climate policy that “makes sense to skeptics and activists alike.” He also told Politico that he wants to roll back President Biden’s climate bill, the Inflation Reduction Act, which is funding carbon capture projects supported by the fossil fuel industry.
Still, Kennedy remains committed to the environment. His chief environmental policy concerns include ending the corporate capture of environmental regulatory agencies (including the EPA and USDA); reducing toxic chemical pollution and plastic waste; and protecting rivers, forests, fisheries, and wildlife habitats from corporate abuse.
Interview about Coal mining: https://www.climateone.org/people/robert-f-kennedy-jr
You can see his environmental work is listed on Congress.gov.
https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116258/witnesses/HHRG-118-FD00-Bio-KennedyR-20230720.pdf
https://www.kennedy24.com/earth-day-message-rfk-jr
Our Environmental Destiny - Robert Kennedy, Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: How Corporations Threaten Our Environment and Democracy
This republican, Rick Dancer, just mentioned an interview with Tucker Carlson that made him teary-eyed. RFK talked about seeing the environment as God's creation, and taking care of it. I'll put the Tucker Carlson interview below this video.
I Was Wrong About RFK
RFK Jr: Teaming up With Trump, Pavel Durov’s Arrest, CIA, and the Fall of the Democrat Party
Why Nature Matters
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