Attorney for the environment, 1966-1981
Subtitle: Center for Law and Social Policy, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Department of Justice Division of Lands and Natural Resources
By: James W. Moorman ; an interview conducted by Ted Hudson, 1984 ; with an introduction by Mike McCloskey. Sierra Club History Committee [under the auspices of the Regional Oral History Ofice, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley],
Contributors: Hudson, Ted.; McCloskey, J. Michael 1934-; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1994
Subjects: Sierra Club.; United States.; Lawyers -- United States -- Interviews.; Environmentalists -- United States -- Interviews.; Environmental law -- United States.; Forestry law and legislation -- United States.; Forest protection -- United States.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: Sierra Club History Committee Oral history series.; Donated oral histories collection.
Description: Moorman discusses family, education, and interest in environment; Sierra Clubs Atlantic and Southeast chapters, 1960s; legal cases as attorney in Justice Department's Lands Division, 1966-1969; attorney for Center for Law and Social Policy, 1969-1971: early use of the National Environmental Policy Act in environmental litigation, trans-Alaskan pipeline case, growth of field of environmental law; Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund executive director, 1971-1977: relationship with the club and its legislative program, litigation on wilderness, forestry, clean air issues, Admiralty Island timber sales; assistant attorney general for land and natural resources, 1977-1981: Attorney General Griffin Bell and other members of Carter administration, land acquisition, Indian rights, Alaskan land, toxic . waste issues.