Stuart Henry
Austin | Attorney
Stuart Henry began his environmental career in positions with the Harris County Air Pollution Control Department, the San Jacinto chapter of the American Lung Association, Houston’s Citizens’ Environmental Coalition, and the City of Austin’s Environmental Program. In later years, he worked as the lead attorney in an Austin-based partnership that specialized in representing public interest groups and landowners in environmental cases. Mr. Henry was particularly well-known for his work on water-related cases, such as Sierra vs. Babbitt, the controversy involving protection of endangered species dependent on the Edwards Aquifer regime. He was also active in fighting dams, radioactive waste sites, strip mines, wastewater discharge permits, feedlots, hazardous waste incinerators and other environmental problems.
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June 18, 1999Austin, Texas
Reels 2007 and 2008