 | Jerome Ringo | | President of the Apollo Alliance |
Jerome Ringo is the president of the Apollo Alliance, the highly influential vanguard coalition of labor, business, environmental, and community leaders working to catalyze a clean energy revolution and put millions of Americans to work in high-quality, “green-collar” jobs. Ringo got firsthand experience of pollution working for more than 20 years in Louisiana’s petrochemical industry and seeing the impacts on his fellow workers and on adjoining (mostly poor and black) communities’ health. He became a union activist, an environmental justice advocate and eventually chair of the board of the National Wildlife Federation, the first African-American to head a major conservation organization. Jerome was also the U.S.’ only black delegate at the 1998 Global Warming Treaty Negotiations in Kyoto.
The Color Of Green: The Next Inconvenient Truth
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