CELP

The Center for Environmental Law & Policy was co-founded by University of Washington Law School Professor Ralph W. Johnson and NGO public interest lawyer Rachael Paschal Osborn in 1993. Their shared vision was to create an organization to serve as a voice for the public interest in water resource management and preservation throughout Washington State. They recognized that water belongs to all of us, and that the Public Trust Doctrine should be used to protect this precious resource for humans, wildlife, and life itself... For three decades, the Center for Environmental Law & Policy has been Washington State's top watchdog and defender of water rights and resources. Washington's water resources are over-appropriated. Hundreds of streams and rivers are impaired due to lack of flow. Statewide, more than two dozen salmon species are listed as endangered, and the lack of adequate river flows are a limiting factor for recovery. Climate change is making matters even worse as increasing..

Also known as: Center for Environmental Law & Policy, Center of Environmental Law & Policy

Primary location: Seattle United States