ANNUAL REPORT 2011

BECAUSE THE EARTH NEEDS A GOOD LAWYER Contents

6 A Clean Energy Future: Safeguarding Communities and the Environment

14 The Tongass: Preserving Our Natural Heritage

20 Our Clients and Partners

26 2011 Financial Report

28 Board of Trustees, Council, Team and staff

30 Ways to Give

This DVD features a collection of stories about the people Earthjustice DVD Feature Stories: Finding Their Way has been fighting for during the past Air Watch year—and in some cases for many An Ill Wind years. We think you’ll find these Water Warrior Asthma Feels stories to be emotionally engaging Clean Air Is and inspirational. 2011: Our StOrieS in image & SOund www.earthjustice.org The videos tell the stories of people not willing to allow the land

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Please contact But these videos also tell a story us at about all of you—our supporters. 1-800-584-6460. You make our work possible and help us to continue our service as the environmental community’s premier legal organization. President Trip VanNoppen For your supportandpartnership inthiswork, thankyou. natural splendorandmagni cencethataboundsonthisplanetwecallhome. on CapitolHill, andinourpartnerships, wewillbetenaciousinourdefenseofthe health oftheenvironmentandourcommunities. Inourworkinthecourtroom, Looking forward to2012,weareasmotivatedevercontinuedefendingthe and haswonprotectionsfor Alaska’s Tongass NationalForest. read aboutinthefollowingpages, isholdingthecoalindustryaccountabletolaw environmental issuesconsistentlyyieldsuccess. This strategicapproach, asyouwill Our unmatched legalexpertise andourlong-termcommitmenttoaddressingcritical cleaner, healthierplanetispossible. role astheworld’s premierenvironmentallaw rmandproviderealhopethata This pastyearwehavewonamazingvictoriesthatserveastestamentstoEarthjustice’s our steadfastsupporters, wecontinuetopursuefar-reaching, big-impactlitigation. In partnershipwithourhundredsofclients, otherallies, foundations, scientists, and toward acleanenergyfuture. protected, communitiesaresafeguardedfromtoxicpollution, andsocietyismoving do everyday—andbecauseofyoursupport—theearth’s specialplacesarebetter progress rightnow. Becauseoftheworkwe some unnamed, distantfuture—wearemaking The ful llmentofthisvisiondoesnotrestin for restoringtheearthtoecologicalbalance. environmental protectionsandputforthavision decades. We havefoughttoestablishmeaningful the courseofourworkformorethanfour and abeliefinthepowerofjusticehasguided A passionfor preservingthenatural world Thank You Chairman oftheBoard of Trustees Ed Lewis

E   A  R  E   A  R  S the world’s premier environmental lawfirm. toform whatwouldbecomeEarthjustice, dedicated attorneys still guideourorganizationtoday, inspired asmallgroup of as ourcore values.Thesefundamentalprinciples,which environment andtrustinthepowerofjusticehaveserved ince ourfoundingin1971,apassion forpreserving the including tropicalincluding tropical jungles. jungles. than anyotherecosystem onEarth, than anyotherecosystem onEarth, contains morecontains more organicmatterperacre organicmatterperacre 52ºF year-round.52ºF year-round. Thistypeofforest Thistypeofforest low of32ºFtoanaveragehigh low of32ºFtoanaveragehigh temperaturestemperatures rangefrom rangefrom anaverage anaverage depending onthelocation.Air depending onthelocation.Air 38 inchestomore38 inchestomore than220inches than220inches annual precipitationannual precipitation rangingfrom rangingfrom coastal temperaterainforest,coastal temperaterainforest, with with The TongassThe Tongass NationalForest NationalForest isa isa A CoolForest Photo ©AmyGulick

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E   A  R  E   A  R  T human health. A recentstudyfound also hasadevastatingimpacton drives climatechange. Burningcoal emissions ofcarbondioxide, which more thanathirdofthenation’s forward—a cleanenergyfuture. an alternativevisionforthepath catastrophic impacts. And weoffer and ourcommunitiesagainstcoal’s industry. We defendtheland, theair, communications, tocleanupthecoal campaign oflitigation, advocacy, and the law. must answertoahigherauthority— powerful thecoalindustryis, itstill public’s expense. Butnomatterhow disposal, theindustrypro tsat mining, transport, burning, andwaste Coal- red powerplantsgenerate Earthjustice isengagedinastrategic of ourcommunities. Through change, andthreatensthehealth landscapes, exacerbatesclimate he coalindustrydestroysthriving reform thecoalindustry. to protect. In2008,DillenhelpedopenEarthjustice’s Northeastoffice, where sheworksto issues whensherealized thatclimatechangecoulddestroy thelandsshewasworkingsohard she washiredwithadocketofpublic landscases.Herfocusshiftedtoenergy asanattorney Impressed, atEarthjustice. WhenDillengraduatedayearlater, Honnoldinvitedhertointern Abigail Dillen,Attorney, NortheastOffice Doug HonnoldmetDillenwhilerecruiting atBerkeley. summerinterns growing interest inenvironmental law. In1999,Earthjusticeattorney a greater appreciation forthenaturalworld,whichpaired wellwithher seasonal jobatYosemite NationalPark.Hertimein the Sierrafostered in law. Onbreak from UCBerkeleyduringthesummer, shetooka during thelate1990sshewasrethinking herdecisiontopursueacareer AbigailDillenisEarthjustice’sAttorney CoalProgram Director, but b the shoresof terminal inLongview, Washington, on been the West Coast’s rstcoalexport the constructionofwhatwouldhave This pastyear, Earthjusticestopped signi cant greenhousegasemissions. resulting intoxicairpollutionand to Asia andburnedinpowerplants, From there, thecoalwouldbeshipped before arrivingatcoastalterminals. would windthroughtheinterior West Powder RiverBasinontotrainsthat desires toloadcoalminedinthe of theUnitedStatesto Asia. Industry of exportingcoalfromthe West Coast increasingly interestedintheprospect importer inrecentyears, theindustryis days annually. more than1.5millionmissedwork attacks, 217,600asthmaattacks, and cause 13,200deaths, 20,400heart red powerplantsisprojectedto that neparticlepollutionfromcoal- With Chinabecominganet coal P CONTINUEDONPAGE 10

Blue heron inflightover water, DashPointStatePark, Washington State Jim Pew, Attorney, Washington, D.C.Office environmental law. lot oftimetothinkandheeventuallyemergedwith anewfocusandcareer path: down thePacificCoast.Thatinspirationalandlife-changing trek afforded Pewa off, shippedhisbicycletoVancouver, B.C., andstartedalongride prospect ofanother40wasnotappealing.So,hetooksometime 1993, he’dspentthree yearsinacommercial lawfirmandthe Earthjustice, Pewwasready togiveuplawaltogether. Itwas Washington, D.C.,office in1997.Butafewyearsbefore joining power plants,andotherindustrialpolluters.Hejoined Earthjustice’s communities plaguedbyhazardous wasteincinerators,coal-fired Jim Pewisanexpertairtoxicslitigator, fightingtoprotect b

E   A  R  E   A  R  C in Centralia, Washington, between 1,400-megawatt TransAlta coalplant that willleadtothephasingoutof Earthjustice broughtaseriesofcases construction ofnewcoal-redplants. old powerplants, andpreventingthe Act standards, workingtoshutter we areghtingfortougherClean Air gases intheUnitedStates. That’s why industry prots. communities forthesakeofcoal of thePacicNorthwest’s coastal working topreventthesacrice West Coastcoalterminalsandis continues tomonitornewlyproposed Columbia River. Ourlegalteam single largestsourceofgreenhouse oal-red powerplantsarethe Northeast Office Lisa GollinEvans,SeniorAdministrativeCounsel, National AcademyofSciencesontheissue. expert oncoalashandhastestifiedbefore Congress andthe nonprofit CleanAir Task Force. Evansisanationally recognized worked ontoxiccoalwasteissuesfortheBoston-based a coastalaccessproject fortheStateofMassachusettsand to thenonprofit world.FollowinghertimeatEPA, sheled at theEnvironmental Protection Agencybefore transitioning regulate toxiccoalashwaste.Butshebeganherlegalcareer LisaGollinEvansleadsEarthjustice’sAttorney campaignto communities. to improvedisposalmethodsprotect categorized asahazardouswasteand legal teamisworkingtohavecoalash waste into Tennessee’s ClinchRiver. Our 2008, spilling1billiongallonsoftoxic plant’s coalashdamdidinDecember nearby townsastheKingstonFossil settling pondsthatcanburstand ood ash wasteiscommonlydisposedofin communities acrossthecountry. Coal byproduct ofburningcoal, threatens and burned. Toxic coalashwaste, a after thecoalismined, transported, gas pollution. residents andreductionsingreenhouse means cleanerairforthestate’s largest sourceofairpollution, Centralia plant, Washington’s single 2020 and2025. The closureofthe Coal’s dirtylifecycledoesnotend P b CONTINUEDONPAGE 12

Sunset atColumbiaRiverGorgevista the wayweproduce energy. its operationshasenormous practicalandsymbolicimportintheeffort toreform it asanationalmodelof how todothingsright,challengingtheutilityclean up it’s oneofthenation’s dirtiestutilities,andbecause FranklinD.Rooseveltfounded owned utility, theTennessee Valley Authority. BecauseofTVA’s sheersize,because and scrubbersludge,ourlitigationstrategytargets thenation’s largestpublicly shutdowns ofcoal-fired powerplantsnationwide.Involvingcoalash,airpollutants have collaboratedonalegalcampaignthatcould contribute towidespread Environmental IntegrityProject. Formore thanayearnow, EarthjusticeandEIP power plants.Herworkledhertodiscussionswith theWashington, D.C.-based for opportunitiestouselitigationcompelmultiple shutdownsofcoal-fired that couldreduce thenation’s outputofglobalwarmingpollution,shelooked AbigailDillenbeganlookingforlegalstrategies When Earthjusticeattorney Environmental IntegrityProject Client Partner: b

E   A  R  E   A  R  A at compellinggovernment agenciesto with electricity. Ourcampaignisaimed gas emissionsandsupplying Americans environment whilereducinggreenhouse and thussafeguardthehealthof wind andsolarcouldreplacecoal lternative energysourcessuchas Hikers pausetoenjoytheviewonMountKathadininremote BaxterStatePark,Maine in favorofacleanenergy future. sources, eventuallytippingthebalance eld betweencoalandrenewable strategy levelstheeconomicplaying internalize thecostsofpollution. This standards, forcingthecoalindustryto implement tougherpollution-control b sending emailsandtheir photostoEPA andtheWhite HouseCouncilonEnvironmental Quality. to ourwebsite.Through thewebsiteandtargeted email alerts,visitorshadtheopportunitytotakedirect action, to uploadphotosofthemselvesandpersonalstatements, tocreate theirown billboard-style adsand post them ourmtrstories, where theycouldread andhearthestoriesofaffected residents. Website visitors were alsoable service advertisementswere placedinairportsandbusstopsdirecting peopletoawebsiteatearthjustice.org/ to empowercitizensvoicetheiropposition mountaintop removal bycontacting federalofficials. Public aim wastoengagenewaudienceswiththepersonal storiesandfamiliarvaluesofAppalachianresidents, and and thedamageitcauses.Thecampaignfocused onthehumanstoriesbehindthisdestructivepractice.Our During fall2010,Earthjusticelaunchedanational campaigntoraiseawareness ofmountaintopremoval mining Protecting Communitiesfrom MountaintopRemoval b

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Photo © Amy Gulick The Tongass:The Preserving OurNaturalHeritage growth forest leftintheUnited States. temperate rainforest, andthelargestreserves ofintactold- contains nearlyone-third oftheworld’s remaining old-growth thousands ofislandsintheAlexanderArchipelago. TheTongass Forest fringesthecoastalpanhandleofAlaskaandcovers One oftherarest ecosystemsonEarth,theTongass National Where theForest MeetstheSea Photography byAmyGulick

E   A  R  E   A  R  E began tochange. But beginninginthe1970s, things environmental regulationoroversight. logged the Tongass withscant private pro tsatthepublic’s expense. majestic old-growthstands,and reaped roads throughvirginforests, logged will fordecades. The industrybuilt that thetimberindustryharvestedat is alsohometomillionsoftrees—trees natural landscapesintheworld. eagles, andsomeofthemoststunning salmon, brownandblackbears, bald rainforest. Itishometo vespeciesof the earth’s largestremainingtemperate And formanyyears, theindustry Being athrivingforest, the Tongass 17-million acres, the Tongass isalso in perseveranceanddedication. Tongass NationalForestisastudy arthjustice’s defenseof Alaska’s protections fortheTongass. Earthjustice tocommunicate theneedforenhancedenvironmental Forest (salmoninthetrees.org).Gulickisworkinginpartnership with form photoessayaboutAlaska’s Tongass National she publishedherbookSalmonintheTrees, along- world’s mostamazingnaturalplaces.Mostrecently, a career creating awe-inspiringimagesofsomethe with herskillsbehindthecamera.Theresult hasbeen exploring theIllinoiscountryside—wassooncoupled Her lovefornature—fostered duringachildhoodspent heart, Gulickbeganexperimentingwithphotography. handed acameraforthefirsttime.Astorytellerat her future wassetattheage ofeightwhenshewas path earlyon.Fornature photographer AmyGulick, Some folksare latebloomers andothersfindtheir Amy Gulick,Nature Photographer The nation’s largestforestat b Carter created once againsuccessfulwhenPresident bears intheworld. Oureffortswere one thedensestpopulationsofbrown Admiralty Island, whichmaintains fought toprotectthe Tongass’s Juneau of cein1978, Earthjustice preserve theforest. a decades-longlegalcampaignto set. That landmarkvictorysparked and animportantprecedenthadbeen of the Tongass hadbeenprotected contract in1976. An importantpiece company nallydecidedtovacatethe throughout thedecadeuntil Litigation overthecontractwound contract tologthemiddle Tongass. company fromsecuringa50-year started workingtopreventapaper as theSierraClubLegalDefenseFund, Following theopeningofour In 1971Earthjustice, thenknown P CONTINUEDONPAGE 18 Forest. See:amygulick.com. within theTongass National and intricateconnections to documenttheremarkable streams ofSoutheastAlaska misty islands,andsalmon paddling amongthebears, spent twoyearstrekking and Photographer AmyGulick

well asthestreamside foliageintheforest. decaying bodiesnourishotherwildlifeas After spawning,theadultsdie,andtheir birth streams tospawnthenextgeneration. to mature. Asadults,theyreturntotheir and rivers,salmonmigratetotheoceans infreshwaterchum, andpink.Born streams in theTongass—chinook, coho,sockeye, Forest. Allfivespeciesof Pacific salmonexist streams throughout theTongass National nutrients intomore than4,500 spawning wild salmoninfuseanupstream flowof Salmon Time:Everyyear, millions of communities, whilesustainingthehealthofTongass. industries tobecomeeconomicallyviableandbenefit the region’s rural a thriving,healthyregional ecosystem.SEACCworkstoenablesmall-scale the sustainableuseofarea’s naturalresources, SEACCisdedicatedto safeguard theintegrityofSoutheastAlaska’s environment whilesupporting to reinstate RoadlessRuleprotections fortheTongass. Foundedin1970to Alaska office in1978.SEACChasbeenacriticalpartnerourcampaign Earthjustice toprotect theTongass NationalForest sinceweopenedour The SoutheastAlaskaConservationCouncil(SEACC) hasworkedwith Southeast AlaskaConservationCouncil Client Partner: b Photo ©AmyGulick

E   A  R  E   A  R  government caved, and the Tongass room deal: The statesued, thefederal and theForestServicecutaback- Roadless Rule. In Alaska, thestate interests immediatelychallengedthe unspoiled nature. Rule, protecting58-millionacresof the Roadless Area Conservation the U.S. ForestServiceimplemented 2001 ourworkcametofruitionwhen imprint wasscarcelyifatallvisible. In areas—places wherethehuman protect thenation’s remainingroadless pushed theClinton Administration to an integralpartofacoalitionthat During thedecade, Earthjusticewas key victoriestopreservepristineareas. over theforestin1990s, winning Wilderness Area. declaring itafederallyprotected Admiralty IslandNationalMonument, States, timbercompanies, andother But therewasacatch. Our legalteamcontinuedtolitigate important totheirlives.” theirstories,andtounderstandwhyourworkis many ofthem,tolearn growth forests. Ourlitigationhasgivenmetheopportunity tomeet with thelandandwanttoprotect itsabundantfish,wildlife,andold- Tom Waldo, Attorney, AlaskaOffice islands oftheTongass. Allofthemshare adeepbond make theirlivinginthewaterssurrounding thecountless businesses. We represent commercial fishermenwho entrepreneurs whohavestartednature-based tourism occupied thislandforathousandyears.We represent clients. We represent Nativevillageswhoseancestorshave National Forest. AsWaldo explains,“Iaminspired byour has manyreasons tofightprotect thestate’s Tongass Tom Waldo, inEarthjustice’s anattorney AlaskaOffice, B Earthjustice andthe organization’s reinstated fortheforest. and RoadlessRuleprotectionswere the Tongass exemptionwas awed John Sedwickruledthatthebasisfor victory came:U.S. DistrictCourtJudge in March2011, newsofahistoric Tongass exemptiononitsfaceand, for 40years. We challengedthe Earthjustice’s legalteam. shroud overtheaccomplishmentsof but theexemptionhunglikeanugly attempt tocuttreesinroadlessareas, litigation, wereabletoblockeverynew Environmental groups, viaEarthjustice Rule’s protections. was exemptedfromtheRoadless Buck Parker, strategicadviserfor And thereitsatformostof10years. b ghting toprotectthe Tongass y thispoint, Earthjusticehadbeen to preservingtheearth’s specialplaces.” shows—Earthjustice’s unyieldingcommitment work. And that’s whatour Tongass work to havededicationandarealpassionfor the action afteraction. Itmeansthatyouneed have topursuecaseaftercase, andchallenge difference. And thatmeansyouaregoingto or 15yearsbeforeyoucanmakealasting an agencyandissueforaminimumof10 way itworks. You reallyhavetoworkwith then everybodyfollowsthelaw. That’s notthe lawyer youestablishalegalprecedentand and putthevictoryincontext. nature ofthecampaigntoprotect Tongass former executivedirector, re ectedonthe and drawnintotherootsofplants. streams, upto70percentofthenitrogeninnearbyfoliageisoceanorigin—broughtbysalmon,delivered bybears, Built bySalmon:InpartsoftheTongass NationalForest,treeshelpgrowsalmon,andsalmontrees.Near salmon “There isamyththatasanenvironmental b alternative. alternative. from Juneaumustbeanalyzedasan making clearthatimproved ferryservice brakes onthehalf-billiondollarproject, U.S. 9thCircuit CourtofAppealsputthe Earthjustice filedsuitandinMay2011the would haveendedatanewferryterminal. service already existsinJuneau,theroad other animals.Despitethefactthatferry the habitatofbears,moose,wolves,and than 90baldeaglenests,andimpacted forest, comewithinahalf-mile ofmore of thelargestroadless areas inanynational road wouldhavebeenbuilt through one road leadingoutofJuneau. Theproposed would haveadded51milestoadead-end A project pushedbytheState ofAlaska from aDead-EndRoad Protecting aPristineForest b Photo ©AmyGulick

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