Margaret Sheehan

About

I was awarded the 2022 Environmental Service Award and Land Stewardship Award by Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions (MACC)! So honored to have been nominated by the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe of Plymouth/Pautuxet!

I am working to help save the planet as an environmental attorney with over 30 years experience in enforcement and public interest campaigns. My expertise includes water pollution, forest protection and climate.

Campaigns:

--Save the Pine Barrens, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Volunteer Coordinator of non-profit whose mission is to protect the land and waters of the globally rare pine barrens ecosystem of Southeastern Massachusetts. www.savethepinebarrens.org

-North American Megadam Resistance Alliance, an international network opposing large dams and fighting for rivers and Indigenous sovereignty, volunteer coordinator

-Save the Colorado/Save the World's Rivers - working on rights of nature for rivers - board member

- Earthrise Law Center, Advisory Board and co-counsel on various public interest lawsuits

-Cape Cod Bay Watch - co-founder and campaigner to raise awareness about Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station on Cape Cod Bay www.capecodbaywatch.org

-Save the County Wood Lot campaign to stop a mining operation on rare Pine Barrens in Plymouth www.savethecountywoodlot.org

-Northeast Wilderness Trust - former board member and advisor www.newildernesstrust.org

- Watershed Action Alliance of Southeastern Massachusetts and the Taunton River Campaign - co-founder

-Taunton River Campaign - co founder

-Lyme (NH) Biodiversity Committee Co-Chair and founder

- Lyme Conservation Commission - member