Earthjustice

“A full copy of form 990 is posted on a secure web portal accessible by the trustees at least one week prior to filing. The trustees are notified of the form 990 posting and encouraged to review and comment on it prior to filing.”

“The conflict of interest policy requires an annual disclosure by trustees and senior staff of entities in which they have personal, financial or professional interests. The results of those disclosures are compiled into a screening list of entities used by the board chair, chief executive officer and general counsel when reviewing potential transactions with earthjustice and outside entities. The screening list is used to check to assure that individual decision-makers recuse themselves from any participation in decisions affecting the entities in which they have interests.”

“We get competitive data from an outside compensation consultant for our ceo. In addition our vp-hr collects salaries of ceos from other non-profit environmental organizations to obtain additional data for the key national non-profit environmental organizations. This information is passed along to the executive committee of our board of directors who reviews the data and makes the appropriate recommendation for our ceo salary. We do a bi-annual review of all positions in the organization including the ceo and all staff. We update all position descriptions and use an outside compensation consultant to determine salaries that match the job responsibilities in the non-profit sector in the specific geographic areas in which our jobs are located. Our vp-hr then works with managers, based on performance to determine what the appropriate salary should be within this range. Since this process is quite time intensive, we do this every other year. In the year we don't go through this process, we get competitive data about what the average raise will be and use this as a guideline for our budgeting process. Our attorneys' pay is based on the year of graduation from law school, to which we add a geographic adjustment based on the office location, e.g. Bozeman, montana vs. New york, ny. We contact other conservation organizations like the sierra club and also government entities like the department of justice to determine the appropriate pay for our attorneys.”

“The audited financial statements are available on the organization's website. In addition, the audited financial statements, the governing/organizing documents, and the conflict of interest policy are made available to the public by email request: [email protected].”

“001149 co roadless leasing 182.68 001164 jarbidge rs 2477 intervention 618.39 001345 tlmp revision 467.20 001346 tongass roadless exemption 3,900.71 001362 delta smelt biop 8,431.68 001388 sierra framework challenge 39.78 001404 1999 hydro esa 1,621.28 001473 everglades 53.94 001494 2000 mact deadline 38,796.88 001506 cement kilns iii 9,756.29 001770 roan plateau 328,217.82 001773 numeric nutrient criteria 1,294.28 001842 kane county - bald knoll rs 2477 473.58 001856 utah rmp and lease sale challenge 998.20 001938 son of fema 5,801.23 001982 montana dnrc hcp 1,058.19 001999 lahaina injection well 51,444.95 002005 hawaii feed-in tariffs 33.10 002027 ghost ships 35.51 002032 grid interconnection rule amendment 79.73 002064 west elk lease expansion 230,081.09 002065 pike san isabel motor vehicle 291.52 002078 salmon pesticide biop enforcement 347,832.01 002091 coho intervention 79.86 002106 shell oil spill plans 1,082.40 002122 no more wilderness intervention 860.29 002126 cement kilns iv 138,467.44 002137 tva bull run permit appeal 3,274.88 002151 o&c lands intervention 650.50 002163 wyoming regional haze sip 7,916.45 002180 2011 caa rtr deadlines 19,834.82 002209 colorado res defense 2,721.70 002232 montana regional haze 962.46 002235 navy nw training range 146,733.14 002268 pse decoupling 302.08 002273 san juan generating station haze 5,543.06 002281 coastal pelagic species amendment 54.24 002291 inertz 28.60 002295 hi on bill financing program 7.13 002302 wy wolf delisting 585.30 002304 grand canyon uranium withdrawal 1,776.92 002308 mn regional haze sip/fip 642.15 002309 coal ash regulations 89,000.00 002314 coos bay dredging permit nm 1,823.83 002336 dryden zoning defense 2,257.96 002353 murrelet delisting intervention 200.95 00236ar regional haze 4,279.94 002377 tahoe regional plan update 906.62 002384 farm kids petition 10.90 002395 ferc order 1000 defense 285.05 002396 unclassifiable ozone designation 3,837.79 002397 tva gallatin npdes permit 109.63 002398 cec judicial review challenge 1,317.59 002400 ozone attainment delay 2012 130.81 002409 tahoe travel management 834.91 002413 san pedro adwr challenge 3,206.75 002414 ca neonicitinoid reevaluation 1,504.88 002421 neb. Regional haze sip appeal 1,109.24 002427 export-import bank xcoal 371.61 002428 colstrip coal ash enforcement 8,206.95 002432 ca brodifacoum reevaluation 32.88 002434 stormwater permit defense 86.37 002441 clearwater travel plan intervention 784.88 002459 san pedro bo enforcement 28.02 002479 nd roadless qta intervention 3,149.17 002480 constitution 3,541.18 002488 snake dredging episode iii 258.32 002491 seneca lake lpg storage 19,196.81 002493 dominion cove point lng export 1,727.52 002497 clifty creek power plant water 21,437.38 002500 ozone naaqs deadline 134,167.27 002502 navajo generating station registry 835.78 002504 co oil and gas air rulemaking 645.72 002514 seneca lake natural gas storage 20,641.84 002524 abc carryover 45,000.00 002525 west way crude-by-rail 407.35 002531 navy hi/socal training 1,632.44 002535 otter creek mining permit 7,038.37 002539 big thorne timber sale 480.04 002555 wa fish consumption rate determination 72.68 002566 wood burners 33,043.48 002567 north pacific observer program 1,276.75 002568 irp intervention 116.38 002573 badger two medicine lease 2,547.26 002583 avenal permit extension 97,758.72 002589 kauai pesticide/ge ordinance 42.91 002598 crude-by-rail efsec jurisdiction 430.76 002601 pa. Title v epa deadline suit 37,460.00 002608 la 1-hour ozone plan 2012 171.76 002613 ca demand response design 4,579.89 002615 tesoro-savage crude-by-rail 171.30 002616 fairbanks pm2.5 nonattainment 1,736.00 002618 buckley diversion dam 527.90 002621 morton solar complaint 4,594.39 002634 feeca 2,252.57 002639 cercla 108(b) - round 2 2,467.76 002641 lansing smith ash pond 2,211.00 002642 crist ash pond 2,211.00 002643 dod stormwater appeals 49.08 002645 transmountain pipeline 5,474.78 002651 co value of solar 1,495.47 002653 idaho w”

“Today's environmental challenges are greater than ever. But we live in a country of strong environmental laws-and earthjustice holds those who break these laws accountable for their actions. As the nation's original and largest nonprofit environmental law organization, we leverage our expertise and commitment to fight for justice and create lasting change. We bring cases that will have the biggest impact, setting precedents for generations to come. Our many successes across the decades are thanks to strong partnerships with hundreds of organizations and hundreds of thousands of passionate supporters. Of course, winning a case is only part of the battle. Our litigation is strengthened by policy and communications teams working with decision-makers in washington, d.c., and within the court of public opinion to sustain our legal victories. Earthjustice pursues three key goals to secure a just and flourishing world: - fighting for healthy communities - preserving the wild - advancing clean energy and a healthy climate fiscal year 2015 was an eventful one for earthjustice, as we transitioned to even more ambitious strategic goals in our three major programs and continued to rack up victories for people and our environment. During the year, we maintained a docket of over 350 cases, representing over 500 clients. Below are a sample of victories achieved in service of our mission. Advancing clean energy and a healthy climate earthjustice's work in the courts, and increasingly in public utility commission venues, continues to focus on forcing an end to coal-fired power and removing barriers so that clean energy to take hold. We are achieving results in cutting carbon emissions, lessening our reliance on fossil fuels and moving the world closer to a clean energy future and a healthy climate. Victories for a healthy climate we continued a state-by-state fight to retire coal-fired power plants by working to ensure that plants were complying with federal clean air act requirements. As a result of our efforts, by the end of june, 2015, 28 coal plants were forced to retire as a result of not being able to comply with existing regulations. Unrelenting work by our attorneys over more than a decade culminated in a supreme court ruling in 2014 that upholds the epa's authority to limit carbon pollution. That victory is the foundation for the clean power plan - the american commitment to cut carbon pollution that contributed to an international break-through at the 2015 paris climate change conference. We halted the expansion of an oil train facility in albany, ny, designed to handle dirty tar sands oil, successfully defended a permit denial for a coal terminal expansion on the columbia river in oregon, and blocked construction of a refinery oil train facility in washington state. Victories for clean energy our advocacy efforts helped secure the passage of bills in maryland which allow for the creation of community solar projects, enabling all marylanders to generate renewable solar energy, access affordable solar energy, and reap the benefits of energy efficiency, from lower utility bills to more comfortable living spaces. Earthjustice and several partner organizations intervened to successfully defend colorado's renewable energy standard. This victory ensures that the cornerstone of colorado's clean energy economy remains in place. Colorado has one of the most ambitious renewable energy standards in the nation, requiring large investor-owned utilities to supply 30 percent of retail electricity sales with renewables by 2020. Our advocacy in the kentucky public service commission proceeding helped to secure approval of a 10-megawatt solar project proposed by louisville gas and electric and kentucky utilities. This project, expected to go online in 2016, will become the commonwealth's largest solar facility and the first utility-scale truly renewable energy project in the state. Fighting for healthy communities earthjustice works at regional and na”

“Wildlife front, from blocking a wolf-killing program in idaho to halting a plan to eliminate secure grizzly bear habitat in montana to upholding a uranium-mining ban on lands near the grand canyon to forcing full environmental review of a proposed oil-transport facility on padilla bay, near the san juan islands in washington state.”

“Change in value of split-interest gift agreements -456,863.”