A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from February 28th, 2018.
OREGON: Tomorrow evening, Carol Van Strum will receive the David Brower Lifetime Achievement Award at a public ceremony in Eugene, Oregon. The international honor is named after David Brower, one of the founders of the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and the Earth Island Institute, and is awarded in recognition of activists, community members, and attorneys who have engaged in outstanding environmental and social justice work. Recipients are chosen who exemplify David Brower’s spirit and the environmental awareness he sought to awaken in people. The award is presented by the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, which is being held March 1-4 at the University of Oregon School of Law. MORE…