What We Fight For
Environment and Natural Resources
At Pacific Legal Foundation, we believe human ingenuity is the ultimate resource. Our Environment and Natural Resources practice roots itself in the belief that human creativity, unleashed through liberty, solves problems and expands the world’s potential. We defend the freedom to use public and private land productively by protecting constitutional limits on government power and promoting abundance through innovation.
Since Pacific Legal Foundation’s founding in 1973, we have challenged (and successfully defeated) restrictive and arbitrary barriers to the responsible use of natural resources for a wide range of productive activities, including energy development, mining, logging, fishing, homebuilding, and farming. Through fearless litigation, strategic research, principled policy advocacy, and scholarship, PLF advances the idea that the environment and human prosperity are not only compatible—they are mutually reinforcing when guided by freedom and respect for the ultimate resource: the human mind.
