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Corinne
Whitehead is no stranger to grassroots advocacy efforts.
Her lifetime commitment and unrelenting persistence have enhanced
the quality of Kentuckys air, soil, and water.
She
fought to get the Land Between the Lakes area of western Kentucky placed
under the control of the National Park Service.
She has addressed health risks from hazardous waste, has been
involved with eliminating dioxin from the environment, and is passionate
about the toxic pollution at the Calvert City industrial complex.
The crisis at the industrial complex pitted environmental
activists against the Chamber of Commerce, businessmen, and politicians.
Greenpeace even came to town and concluded that people accepted
working in Calvert City because jobs are on the other end of
smoke. Meanwhile,
businessmen say that those jobs produce a lifestyle the employees never
had before. Its a debate that rages over and over again across
Kentucky and America.
As
a child Whitehead was painfully shy but her father stressed that you
can do anything you want to do.
Her mother never supported her activism and often turned up on
her doorstep reminding Whitehead that she needed to be nice and quiet
and ladylike. Corinne
Whitehead has spent her life talking about environmental concerns,
ladylike or not.
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