At Pacific Legal Foundation, we believe people are the ultimate resource. Our work is rooted in the conviction that when human creativity is unleashed through liberty...
At Pacific Legal Foundation, we believe people are the ultimate resource. Our work is rooted in the conviction that when human creativity is unleashed through liberty, it solves problems and expands the world’s potential. The future isn’t built on fear or control—it’s built on freedom and innovation.
For that reason, it’s an honor and privilege to announce the launch of Pacific Legal Foundation’s newest legal program: Environment and Natural Resources (ENR)
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Since our founding in 1973, we have successfully challenged restrictive, arbitrary barriers to the use of natural resources in courtrooms across the country—including the Supreme Court
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—supporting energy development, mining, logging, fishing, farming, and homebuilding.
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We’ve established significant legal precedents that protect all Americans and have secured hard-earned victories for our clients—but there is still much work to be done.
In fact, earlier today we launched a new challenge on behalf of Dr. Sedigheh Zolfaghari
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—a retired pediatric physician who now finds herself at the center of an abusive permitting dispute with the Army Corps of Engineers. In February 2025, in direct defiance of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Sackett II—which limited the Corps' authority to regulate “navigable waters of the United States”—Dr. Zolfaghari was notified that the Corps was refusing to relinquish control over nearly half of her five-acre Florida homestead.
Now, she’s fighting back—and we’re proud to stand with her.
Through fearless litigation on behalf of courageous Americans like Dr. Zolfaghari, strategic research, constitutional scholarship, and principled advocacy, we’ve set out to reshape how Americans think about law, land, and liberty.
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We reject the zero-sum view of environmentalism—the belief that protecting nature requires restraining people.
We believe that property rights are the foundation of innovation, sustainability, and opportunity.
And we’re determined to prove that the scarcity mindset behind much of our nation’s environmental law is not only wrong—it’s counterproductive.
The proper goal of environmental policy isn’t to stop people from using natural resources—it’s to ensure they can do so responsibly, innovatively, and sustainably.
In launching our ENR program, our mission is threefold:
Defend the freedom to use both public and private land productively
Protect constitutional limits on government power
Promote abundance through innovation
If you’re interested in partnering with us to advance these goals, I encourage you to get in touch with PLF’s coalitions director, Michael Slabinski
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If you’ve fallen victim to government overreach in these areas and you’re interested in legal representation, please share the details of your case
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with us for review. As a reminder, all PLF clients are represented free of charge.
If you believe that a better world is possible through liberty and the genius of the human mind, I invite you to stand with us.
Let’s build an environmental future rooted not in fear, but in freedom.
Onward,
Mark Miller
Director of Environment and Natural Resources Litigation
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, for regular updates from the front lines of our fight against government overreach.
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