Kyle Rabin
Air and Energy Program Associate
krabin@envadvocates.org

As Air and Energy Program Associate, Kyle Rabin helps to direct Environmental Advocates’ air and energy programs. Current major projects include: nuclear safety, supporting cleaner and more sustainable energy alternatives such as wind, solar, fuel cells and energy efficiency, and campaigning to clean up air emissions from dirty fossil fuel plants. Kyle also directs Environmental Advocate's Nuclear Energy Policy Project, dealing with such issues as nuclear safety at New York's six commercial reactors, whistleblower protection and the deregulation/restructuring of the nuclear industry. He works extensively with citizens and public officials, and participates in a number of state, regional and national environmental networks on clean air and energy issues. Policy development, lobbying, writing campaign literature, media outreach, coalition building, research and citizen education are key components of all these projects.

Prior to joining the program staff at Environmental Advocates, Kyle worked for the Syracuse Alternative Media Network and helped to produce a documentary about Pete Seeger and the various social movements he was involved with over the last several decades. In December 1997, Kyle earned a M.S. in Environmental Science from the State University of New York (SUNY) College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), where his area of study was environmental and community land planning. As part of his Masters program, Kyle interned with the Rainforest Awareness Project and traveled to the Malaysian State of Sarawak on the island of Borneo. From that experience, he produced an 80 minute film that documents and describes the impacts of economic globalization on indigenous communities.

In May 1994, Kyle received a B.A. in Environmental Studies from SUNY Binghamton. During the summers of 1990 and 1991, Kyle canvassed for Nassau/Suffolk Neighborhood Network educating the public about the importance of protecting the Long Island Pine Barrens ecosystem. Kyle began working in the environmental field during the summer of 1989, as a canvasser for the New York Public Interest Research Group.