Dustin White

Senior Campaigner: Plastics & Petrochemicals

Dustin (he/him) is a Senior Campaigner on Plastics and Petrochemicals based in the so-called “Chemical Valley” of Appalachia.

Before joining CIEL’s Fossil Economy team, Dustin worked for nearly a decade throughout his home state and the Appalachian Region in rural environmental justice communities. He started as a volunteer before becoming a full-time community organizer involved in issues ranging from Mountaintop Removal and other egregious coal mining practices to fracking and, more recently, petrochemicals and plastics as the Appalachian Storage and Trading Hub was proposed for the Ohio River Valley. In 2014, Dustin worked with local community members to organize emergency relief efforts during the MCHM Chemical Disaster in West Virginia.

Along with his work as an organizer, Dustin has had extensive coalition-building experience, including helping found the People Over Petro Coalition and work with the Alliance for Appalachia. He has participated in strategic litigation, citizen lobbying, has assisted national and international journalists, worked with members of the United Nations to highlight environmental justice issues, and has even testified before Congress.

Guided by a personal creed that no one should come into this world or be taken out of it without the promise of clean air and clean water; Dustin is excited to now be on staff at CIEL to further aid environmental justice communities facing the threat of plastics and petrochemicals.

Dustin can be reached at: dwhite@ciel.org