Deborah Goldberg

Deborah Goldberg is the Managing Attorney of Earthjustice’s northeast regional office, located in New York City. Earthjustice, the nation’s largest non-profit environmental law firm, is dedicated to protecting the magnificent places, natural resources, and wildlife of this earth and to defending the right of all people to a healthy environment. Since her arrival at Earthjustice in July 2008, Ms. Goldberg has been working to protect public health and the environment from the adverse effects of gas development in the Marcellus and Utica Shale regions. Her litigation has focused on water impacts of gas wastes; the potential health, safety, and environmental consequences of infrastructure development; the public’s right to know; and local authority to zone out heavy industry, including oil and gas activities. Ms. Goldberg also has testified about those issues before legislative and regulatory bodies and appears regularly at public events and in the news media. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Ms. Goldberg served as a law clerk for then-Judge Stephen Breyer of the First Circuit Court of Appeals and the late Constance Baker Motley of the Southern District of New York. She then spent a decade in private practice, concentrating on environmental law. Before joining Earthjustice, Ms. Goldberg was the Democracy Program Director of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, where she engaged in research, public education, advocacy, and litigation related to voting rights and electoral reform. She also holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and taught ethics for three years at Columbia University.