The Harvard Environmental Law Program presents the Horizon Award each year to an individual who has made extraordinary contributions to environmental law and policy. The award is a means of recognizing great people who have accomplished great things in the field of environment and natural resources law, and to provide a forum in which to discuss those achievements.
Past Winners of the Horizon Award
2012 – Justice John Paul Stevens, U.S. Supreme Court
2013 – Bruce Babbit, Former Arizona Governor and Secretary of the Interior
2014 – Lisa Jackson, Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson
2015 – Frances Beinecke, Former NRDC President
2016 – Gina McCarthy, Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator
2019 – Maura Healey, Massachusetts Attorney General
2021 – Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali, Founding Member of EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and National Wildlife Federation Vice President of Environmental Justice, Climate, and Community Revitalization
2022 – Catherine Coleman Flowers, Environmental Justice Activist, Macarthur Fellow, and White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council Vice Chair
2023– Robert Bullard, Director of the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice, Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy at Texas Southern University
2024 – Sue Biniaz, Deputy Special Envoy for Climate