SALEM REPORTER — Robin Morris Collin knows the impacts of climate change aren’t spread evenly around. Like most other environmental problems, they hit people already marginalized harder – farmworkers laboring outdoors in extreme temperatures, or Oregonians who can’t afford air conditioning during a heat wave. After almost two decades teaching law at Willamette University in Salem and pushing forward Oregon’s work on environmental justice, Morris Collin is now positioned to address those impacts at the federal level. She was recently appointed as a senior advisor to the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on environmental justice, a new position she hopes to use to help communities around the country find solutions to environmental problems that address their needs. “We tend to only respond to the disasters that we see, and that’s no position to try to deal with climate change. We’ll be forever in catch-up mode and we’ll never catch up,” she said.