Rosolie, Eugene, 1949-
Biographical note
Eugene Rosolie was born in New York, New York, in 1949, and grew up in the Brooklyn and Queens boroughs of New York City. From 1967 to 1970, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps. He attended Mount Angel College in Oregon for a year, and later earned a bachelor’s degree at Portland State University. He was active with the Coalition for Safe Power and Northwest Environmental Advocates (NWEA), and campaigned against the use of nuclear power. He married Nina Bell in 1982; she later became the director of NWEA, and Rosolie served as director of NWEA’s green power program.
Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Rosolie in his interview; "About Us," Northwest Environmental Advocates website (accessed November 2025), https://northwestenvironmentaladvocates.org/about-us
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Oral history interview with Eugene Rosolie
Oral history interview with Eugene Rosolie, conducted by Clark Hansen in three sessions, from February 27 to March 17, 1999, as part of the Columbia River Dissenters Oral History Series. Rosolie discusses his environmental activism, particularly his efforts to shut down nuclear power plants in the Pacific Northwest, his advocacy for renewable energy sources, and his efforts to restore estuaries in the Columbia River Basin.