{"id":460,"date":"2012-09-17T04:40:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T04:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www3.law.harvard.edu\/orgs\/els\/?page_id=460"},"modified":"2025-07-21T19:15:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:15:31","slug":"horizon-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/els\/horizon-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Horizon Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/els\/files\/2025\/06\/stevens-main.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1359\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Past Winners of the Horizon Award<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2012<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Justice John Paul Stevens, U.S. Supreme Court<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2013<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Bruce Babbit, Former Arizona Governor and Secretary of the Interior<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2014<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Lisa Jackson, Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2015<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Frances Beinecke, Former NRDC President<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2016<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Gina McCarthy, Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2019<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Maura Healey, Massachusetts Attorney General<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2021<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali, Founding Member of EPA\u2019s Office of Environmental Justice and National Wildlife Federation Vice President of Environmental Justice, Climate, and Community Revitalization<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2022&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 Catherine Coleman Flowers, Environmental Justice Activist, Macarthur Fellow, and White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council Vice Chair<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2023<\/strong>\u2013 Robert Bullard, Director of the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice, Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy at Texas Southern University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2024<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Sue Biniaz, Deputy Special Envoy for Climate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Harvard Environmental Law Program presents the Horizon Award each year to an individual who has made extraordinary contributions to 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