Michael Wall's Blog
About
- Bio:
I am a litigator, an environmentalist, and a dad. As the head of NRDC’s San Francisco litigation team, my colleagues and I go to court to protect families and communities from pollution, to preserve endangered wildlife and wild places, and to fight for a healthy, sustainable environment. In the past few years, I’ve had the chance to brief, argue and try major cases at all levels of the federal judicial system, including cases to restore Chinook salmon to a vast river that the federal government had dried out sixty years earlier; to clean up hazardous waste hot spots in the San Francisco Bay and in rural Tennessee; to prevent the imminent extinction of fish in California’s Bay-Delta estuary; and to protect the rights of private citizens to petition federal agencies without being sued by hostile interests. Before joining NRDC, I practiced labor, environmental, and First Amendment law at a small San Francisco firm, and before that, I served for several years in the environment division of the U.S. Department of Justice. I learned something about the law at Harvard Law School, and a lot more while clerking for the Honorable Edward E. Carnes on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. I learned something about life at Harvard College, but far more from my parents, my family, and my friends. I run, read, wander, very occasionally bodysurf, and (as often as can be) play with my wife and our two boys.
- Roots in:
- Malibu, California
- Favorite place:
- Tennessee Beach (Marin) on a morning run. Leo Carrillo Beach (LA County Line) with whales in the kelp. Big Horn Plateau (the High Sierra) with my family growing up. The Jardin du Luxembourg with my boys (and some brioche).
- Why "environmentalism" matters:
- This is where we live. We won’t get a second chance.
Recent Blog Posts
- Ghost Fleet Images (November 6, 2009)
- Two vessels (almost) down, 55 to go. Much work remains to be done. (October 22, 2009)
- Mothball Fleet's Flaking Paint Poisons and Pollutes San Francisco Bay (March 14, 2009)
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