Spill" won an Emmy Award for "Outstanding On-Air Host or Moderator" for Billy Frank Jr and received nominations for "Outstanding Documentary" and "Outstanding Photography." Harris was a co-recipient with the Berman Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Washington for a "National Clinical Legal Association Award of Excellence in a Public Interest Case or Project" for their efforts to provide legal assistance and help in photo-documenting the successful campaign of 187 tribes in Native Alaska to push the State and federal government to call on Exxon to fulfill its legal obligations toward the cleanup of Prince William Sound. That special became "Native Alaska & The Big Spill," the first episode of a television series entitled, THIS IS INDIAN COUNTRY With Billy Frank Jr. In 2009, Harris won an Emmy for "Dairyman Blues," his short investigative documentary on factory dairy farms in Eastern Washington, in the category of "Outstanding Advanced Media — News Programming." Conservation Harris has led a number of conservation efforts. As a "climate correspondent" for a coalition of environmental groups called the Arctic Refuge Defense Campaign, he hit the campaign trail for the 2020 Democratic Presidential primaries, getting major candidates on record on climate policy and specifically fossil fuel development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. As President and member of the Board of Directors of Orca Conservancy, a Seattle-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, Harris helped lead a number of high-profile killer whale rescues. The group was central in saving a stranded orca at Dungeness Spit, Washington State in January 2002 and a month later initiated a campaign to save the orphaned orca Springer, the first successful rescue and translocation of a wild orca back to its family. Orca Conservancy was also a petitioner in an historic U.S. District Court case that led in 2005 to the first federal protection for the Southern Resident Community of orcas in Puget Sound under the Endangered Species Act. Harris served as Northwest Spokesperson for the Free Willy-Keiko Foundationt. References External links Baby Wild Films Living people Businesspeople from Seattle Filmmakers from Seattle Television producers from Ohio Businesspeople from Dayton, Ohio University of Washington alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Regional Emmy Award winners