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Aquaculture | Legal Services and Representation | Local Food Systems | Natural Resource Conservation | Environmental Education | Environmental Health | Environmental Justice | Coastal and Marine Human Impacts | Water Pollution | Coastal and Marine Law and Policy | Nonprofit Law | Air Quality and Pollution | Marine Ecology and Conservation | Natural Heritage Conservation | Watershed Management | Endangered Plant Species Protection | Endangered Animal Species Protection | Energy Policy | Law and Policy Reform | Land Use Policy | Public Health | Environmental Law and Policy | Climate Change | Coastal and Marine Pollution | Wilderness | Land Stewardship
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Mission Statement
The Environmental Defense Center protects and enhances the local environment through education, advocacy, and legal action.
The EDC is the only nonprofit environmental law firm between Los Angeles and San Francisco working with citizen groups on environmentalissues such as protecting water quality, protecting precious open spaces, protecting endangered species, and guarding public health.
FocusSince 1977 we have empowered community based organizations to advance environmental protection. Our program areas include protecting coast and ocean resources, open spaces and wildlife, and human and environmental health. We primarily work within Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo counties on California's central coast.
History and Purpose
In 1969, Unocal's oil spill in the Santa Barbara Channel focused the nation's attention on the inherent dangers of irresponsible natural resource exploitation, and made Santa Barbara the birthplace of the modern environmental movement. By 1977, an increasingly bureaucratic web of regulations, coupled with a growing polluter sophistication, made necessary the creation of the Environmental Defense Center (EDC) as a public interest law firm, dedicated to defending the health of the public and the environment. For 30 years, EDC has provided legal, advocacy, organizing, and public education services to community groups dedicated to environmental quality and health, regardless of their ability to pay. EDC's staff assists other non-profit environmental groups to ensure that existing environmental laws are enforced. As the only public interest environmental law firm between Los Angeles and San Francisco, EDC focuses its efforts on water quality, biodiversity and endangered species, watershed protection, environmental health and justice, offshore oil and gas development, and access to public lands. EDC is organized as a §501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation serving Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties.
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Flag comment for removal Zoysia 7 months ago
EDC has shown sustained leadership in taking on local environmental legal issues that impact local, state, and national policy. I had the good fortune to intern at EDC during law school and consider the attorneys at EDC to be real life super heros -- jumping into the closet to change into a suit and run to court or to a TV appearance, organizing fundraisers, battling developers and big oil, recruiting and guiding interns, and providing a voice to underserved people and the environment. EDC is a real model of what's right with our legal system!
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