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Earth Day And The March For Science

People from around the U.S., including 13.7's Adam Frank, plan to gather in DC Saturday for the March for Science. Kathleen Rodgers, president of Earth Day Network, discusses the march and Earth Day.
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This Saturday, April 22, people from around the country will gather in Washington, DC, to join the March for Science (there will also be satellite marches in many cities).

After the March was first announced, I wrote on some of the issues it raised about politics and science — and why I was planning to attend. (I will be attending the march and will be giving a "teach-in" with planetary scientists David Grinspoon and Ellen Stofan titled Climate Change and the Cosmic Perspective.) The piece generated a lot of conversations online and in person.

One of people I spoke with was Kathleen Rodgers, the president of Earth Day Network an organization taking a led role in staging the march. Rogers is an attorney who has spent 20

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