Krueger Jill, Lawton Betsy
Jill 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.
J Law Med Ethics. 2020 Dec;48(4):664-680. doi: 10.1177/1073110520979373.
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.
改变自然环境的权力在公共卫生法中受到的关注相对较少,但却是环境法和农业法的核心关注点。环境法和农业法中的实例可能为改变自然环境以减少气候变化对健康影响的努力提供借鉴。关注自然环境的公共卫生律师可能会成功地在环境法和农业法领域提升对健康问题的关注,同时为其公共卫生法工具箱增添新工具。