Earthjustice

“The Organization's Bylaws were amended in November 2015 in accordance with the recommendation of the Organization's Governance Committee. The previous comprehensive review and revision occurred in 2012. The most significant changes adopted in November were as follows: 1) Updated the Bylaws' statement of purpose to incorporate the current mission statement. 2) Permitted Trustees to take a leave of absence from the Board for personal reasons. 3) Eliminated two corporate officers: the Vice-Chair for Finance and the Vice-Chair for Development. 4) Revised the terms and length of terms for corporate officers to be consistent with the practice of electing all officers at each annual meeting, to serve until the next annual meeting. 5) Revised the role of the Board Chair when the office of the President is vacant to accommodate the process for naming interim staff leadership. 6) Reduced the number of at-large members of the Executive Committee from five to three.”

“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 thoses 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 proess 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].”

“Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit public interest environmental law organization. We wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people's health, to preserve magnificent places and wildlife, to advance clean energy, and to combat climate change. We are here because the earth needs a good lawyer. We are heading into a challenging and unpredictable time. However, 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 To that end, below are a just a few highlights of our legal victories and other progress in service of our mission during fiscal year 2016: Grand Canyon: A sprawling residential and commercial development proposed just five miles from the Grand Canyon's South Rim was stopped in its tracks when, faced with strong opposition from Earthjustice, conservation groups and the public, the US Forest Service refused to consider a permit the project needed to proceed. The development threatened to destroy the area's natural ecosystem and lower the aquifer that feeds the park's South Rim and Havasu Falls. Mexican gray wolf settlement: In a hopeful development for Mexican gray wolves, the "lobo" of the American Southwest, we reached a court settlement requiring the federal government to prepare a legally required blueprint for rebuilding the population of these highly endangered wolves after nearly 30 years of delay. Columbia/Snake salmon win: In May, we won a groundbreaking 20-year fight to protect and restore salmon in the Columbia and Snake rivers when a federal judge invalidated the government's inadequate salmon plan for the Columbia Basin. The judge's order requires the government to give serious consideration to removing dams on the lower Snake River that are devastating salmon. EPA reaffirms MATS: The first-ever national limits on mercury and other toxic air pollution from coal plants went into effect in 2015 and are already saving lives. Earthjustice battled for these protections for over 15 years, side by side with a large coalition of clients and partners. In April 2016, the EPA reaffirmed the limits in response to a ruling by the US Supreme Court. Clean energy wins in the Southwest: Across the country, Earthjustice is fighting utility attempts to undermine solar and other clean, renewable energy sources that threaten their bottom line. We defeated proposals to impose charges on solar customers and otherwise block the rise of rooftop solar with big wins in Colorado (August 2015) and New Mexico (November 2015).”

“001128 Wolf Delisting 10.00 001149 CO Roadless Leasing 1,165.93 001164 Jarbidge RS 2477 Intervention 16,612.13 001223 Pila`a CWA 77,354.88 001307 Chukchi OCS Lease Sale 193 328,035.05 001345 TLMP Revision 1,665.16 001404 1999 Hydro ESA 8,038.50 001473 Everglades 448.45 001544 OSWI 24,165.43 001552 Power Plant Air Toxics 1,260.96 001770 Roan Plateau 226.15 001773 Numeric Nutrient Criteria 1,340.84 001776 Apple Moth (6,125.17) 001780 Ozone Standards 27,803.87 001856 Utah RMP and Lease Sale Challe 328.74 001908 Montgomery County MS4 141.40 001944 Sunflower Air Permit 4,148.23 001982 Montana DNRC HCP 85,489.50 001999 Lahaina Injection Well 67,242.88 002044 Four Corners PSD 216,727.17 002064 West Elk Lease Expansion 15,823.57 002065 Pike San Isabel Motor Vehicle 149,392.27 002090 Luminant Power Plant Enforcem 278.90 002106 Shell Oil Spill Plans 650.32 002110 CWA Dispersant Challenge 58.86 002122 No More Wilderness Interventio 262.31 002137 TVA Bull Run Permit Appeal 25.92 002147 WA Triennial Water Qual Stand 207.11 002157 PM2.5 Increments 129.58 002163 Wyoming Regional Haze SIP 147.87 002178 Oil & Gas GHG Reporting Defens 41.50 002209 Colorado RES Defense 582.80 002219 MTR Spruce Veto Defense 218.88 002220 Industrial Boilers II 921.84 002221 Energy Storage - CPUC 116,695.15 002223 Industrial Boilers (Area Sourc 540.44 002224 CISWI 482.19 002232 Montana Regional Haze 104,968.92 002237 Definition of Nonhazardous Sol 198.56 002268 PSE Decoupling 55.50 002291 Inertz 74.09 002301 Fern Hardy HFRA Timber Sale 39,722.67 002304 Grand Canyon Uranium Withdrawa 542.22 002308 MN Regional Haze SIP/FIP 960.37 002314 is Coos Bay Dredging Permit NM 500.00 002318 Caribbean Coral Biop 69,990.00 002338 Power Plant Air Toxics 668.48 002349 Evans Creek, OR Dams Removal 58.52 002356 CPUC LTPP 2012 326,938.03 002361 AR Regional Haze 636.70 002381 Caloosahatchee River 163.08 002413 San Pedro ADWR Challenge 1,343.17 002414 CA Neonicitinoid Reevaluation 840.93 002421 Neb. Regional Haze SIP Appeal 1,403.29 002427 Export-Import Bank Xcoal (9,755.00) 002428 Colstrip Coal Ash Enforcement 61,067.53 002434 Stormwater Permit Defense 315.84 002443 Baltimore City MS4 2012 1,786.54 002451 Haze CSAPR Appeals-4th Circuit 919.90 002465 Chrome Plating Air Toxics Risk 136.73 002466 Morrow Pacific Coal Terminal 145.53 002474 Waimea River Restoration 621.64 002477 New York Water Transfer Rule 462.87 002480 Constitution 674.18 002488 Snake Dredging Episode III 616.16 002491 Seneca Lake LPG Storage 1,455.50 002493 Dominion Cove Point LNG Export 3,091.40 002497 Clifty Creek Power Plant Water 1,361.14 002499 AEP Big Sandy 2 Retirement 714.20 002502 Navajo Generating Station Regi 240.62 002531 Navy HI/SoCal Training 197,675.80 002539 Big Thorne Timber Sale 1,676.60 002542 Buffalo River Swine Facility 197,017.75 002554 SO2 Designations 238.79 002558 Sulfoxaflor EPA 188.52 002559 Conowingo Dam Relicensing 326.88 002561 DTE NSR District Court Remand 705.85 002567 North Pacific Observer Program 62,730.96 002569 Tongass Transition Plan Amendm 82.86 002572 Cross State Air Pollution Rule 99.00 002573 Badger Two Medicine Lease 1,151.23 002576 Scholtz Plant 121,838.38 002577 2013 Air Toxics Risk & Technol 36,282.77 002608 LA 1-Hour Ozone Plan 2012 144.74 002613 CA Demand Response Design 273,663.66 002615 Tesoro-Savage Crude-By-Rail 24,960.96 002618 Buckley Diversion Dam 40,269.66 002632 Shell Chukchi Sea OCS Explorat 635.53 002639 CERCLA 108(b) - Round 2 1,250.00 002645 TransMountain Pipeline 2,995.51 002651 CO Value of Solar 1,900.91 002653 Idaho Wilderness Wolf Eradicat 688.28 002662 Shell Refinery CBR 3,938.65 002664 Prince George's MD 2014 stormw 1,628.31 002666 Baltimore County MD 2014 Storm 675.00 002675 Kennewick water right/Columbia 603.06 002677 Air Reporting Rule Challenge 423.60 002679 Port of Albany Crude by Rail 17,748.75 002694 Lima Energy Ohio Air Permit 22,507.10 002699 Pacific Bigeye Quota Allocatio 92.28 002702 LG&E/KU 2014 Energy Efficiency 29.79 002706 Westway/Imperium”

“002987 Columbia River Fish and Wildli 2,343.93 002988 World Logistics Center 1,408.68 002991 Shell Homeport Seattle Defense 1,773.41 002992 BLM Fracking Rule Intervention 3,017.24 002993 Amendment 1 1,215.04 002996 Off-Site Waste Recovery Interv 20.14 002997 SO2 Designations Amicus 18.91 002998 PolyMet/NorthMet Sulfide Mine 90.73 003000 Humboldt Marten Listing 468.14 003010 Port of Stockton Coal Exports 7,783.79 003012 SSM SIP Call Intervention 57.55 003015 UNS Electric Rate Case 5,284.32 003016 Power Plant Fabric Filters 529.86 003020 MISO Zone 4 FERC Complaint 2,232.57 003021 Hatfield's Ferry Ash Landfill 173.64 003024 EPE 2015 Rate Case 998.67 003025 Coal Ash Rule Petition for Rev 435.55 003027 Adirondack Wild Rivers 1,128.98 003031 WOTUS Rule 2,016.87 003035 Kern County Oil and Gas EIR 9,232.08 003036 Post-Buffalo River Investiga 251.42 003038 MT Water Quality Standards 40.01 003040 NV Energy NEM 13,156.65 003044 Carlsbad Power Plant Appeal 1,135.67 003047 Arkansas Haze Deadline Suit 9,936.28 003050 NY State E&G/Rochester G&E 3,493.45 003056 Ferroalloys Air Toxins Interv. 14.35 003063 Oakland Coal Exports - CEQA 11,111.00 003080 Arizona Value of Solar 1,098.73 003082 Arkansas Haze Intervention 143.00 003086 Power Plant ELG Litigation 230.00 003104 MD NOx Regulation Challenge 505.16 003108 WA Fish Consuption Stnds 540.75 003110 E.W. Brown Citizen Suit 43,060.76 003111 SPS 2015 General Rate Case 192.59 003115 Tucson Electric Power Rate 1,087.66 003144 Xcel CO Solar Connect, Part II 318.53 003145 World Logistics Center Initi. 371.22 003150 Merom NPDES appeal 115.65 003162 PSCo Rate Case, Phase II 300.48”

“Change in Value of Split-Interest Gift Agreements -15,483.”