RECIPIENTS SECTION AWARD
2024 Walter E. Mugdan, Deputy Regional Administrator, Unites States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2 (ret.)
2023 New York League of Conservation Voters
2022 No award was presented due to COVID pandemic
2021 No award was presented due to COVID pandemic
2020 The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
2019 Peggy M. Shepard
2018 Marcia Bystryn
2017 Dr. Ross Whaley
2016 Hon. Thomas P. DiNapoli, NY Comptroller
2015 Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc.
2014 New York City
2013 The Wild Center
2012 Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff, Esq. – (posthumously)
2011 30th Anniversary Awards in lieu of Section Awards
2010 Prof. Philip Weinberg
2009 The Nature Conservancy
2009 New Yorkers for Parks
2008 Hon. Pete Grannis
2008 Peter A.A. Berle, Esq. – (posthumously)
2007 Environmental Protection Bureau, New York State Department of Law
2007 Kent L. Barwick
2007 Prof. John R. Nolon
2007 Sean F. Nolon, Esq.
2006 David Shaw
2005 Hon. Erin M. Crotty
2004 Prof. Jeffrey D. Sachs
2002 George E. Pataki, Esq. (NY Governor)
2001 Hon. Sherwood L. Boehlert
2001 Hon. John P. Cahill
2000 John H. Adams, Esq.
2000 Bernadette Castro
1999 Carol Browner (Lifetime Achievement Award)
1999 J. Winthrop Aldrich
1998 Prof. Ross Sandler
1997 Hon. Nita Lowey
1997 Val Washington, Esq.
1996 US Environmental Protection Agency, Region II
1996 Hudson Riverkeeper Fund, Inc.
1996 Natural Resources Defense Council
1996 Hon. Michael C. Finnegan
1996 Hon. Marilyn Gelber
1996 Daniel A. Ruzow, Esq.
1995 New York Parks and Conservation Association
1995 Dean Richard L. Ottinger
1994 Michael LoGrande
1994 Richard Amper
1992 Elizabeth Thorndike
1991 Sheldon Leffler
1991 Richard A. Persico, Esq.
1991 Klara Sauer
1991 Tim Conti
1990 Langdon Marsh
1989 Christopher Daggett
1989 David Miller
1989 Hon. Maurice Hinchey
1988 Dorothy M. Miner, Esq.
1988 Albert K. Butzel, Esq.
1987 Hon. Robert Abrams
1987 John G. Proudfit, Esq.
1987 Frances Reece
1986 Richard Sullivan
1986 Hon. Edward S. Conway
1985 Cyril H. Moore, Esq.
1985 Hon. Abraham D. Sofaer
1985 Robert C. Stover, Esq.
1985 Mario M. Cuomo, Esq. (NY Governor)
1984 Center for Environmental Information
1983 John L. Greenthal, Esq.
1983 Robert C. Glennon, Esq.
1982 Hon. Bernard C. Smith
1982 Prof. Philip Weinberg
1982 Hugh L. Carey (NY Governor) (John Burroughs Award)
1981 Peter A.A. Berle, Esq.
1981 Henry L. Diamond, Esq.
1981 Prof. Nicholas Adams Robinson
1981 Joel H. Sachs, Esq.
1981 David Sive, Esq.