Jim Earhart

Laredo | Professor

Dr. Earhart is a retired professor of biology who taught at the Laredo Community College. He has also worked as a co-founder and executive director of the Rio Grande International Study Center, as a father of the Lamar Bruni Vergara Environmental Science Center, and a board member of Laredo’s Citizens Environmental Advisory Committee. In each of these posts, Dr. Earhart has worked to protect the Rio Grande and the contributing creeks, wetlands and watersheds in the Laredo area from its booming growth and development. With the development of the maquiladora and warehousing industry, the increase in trade across the international border, and the tripling of population in the Nuevo Laredo / Laredo metropolitan area from 1960 to 2000, pressures on the area’s water supply and quality, solid waste, traffic and air quality have intensified.