Earthjustice

“A full copy of form 990 is posted on a secure web portal accessible by the trustees 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 as a conflict check to assure that individual decision-makers recuse themselves from any participation in decisions affecting the entities in which they have interests.”

“We get market data from a compensation consulting firm for all staff salaries, including our ceo. In addition, our vice president of human resources collects salaries of ceos from other national non-profit environmental organizations to make an informed recommendation to the board of directors. The recommendation and market information is passed along to the executive committee of our board of directors which reviews the data and makes an appropriate final recommendation for our ceo salary. The full board votes on the ceo salary approval. 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 consulting firm 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 vice president of human resources 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 national job market data to determine a percentage increase to all salary scales and use this as a guideline for our budgeting process. In addition, we conduct an equity review for all salary adjustments to ensure that we are in compliance with the california fair pay act and that we are compensating all staff fairly. 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].”

“We litigate hundreds of cases at the national and state level to protect our wild places and creatures, safeguard community health, advance clean energy, and combat climate change. We have continued to hold those who break our nation's strong environmental 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. Earthjustice brings cases that will set precedents for generations to come. Our litigation is strengthened by our 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 in addition to these three program areas, earthjustice has continued with its commitment to protect public access to justice. With a longstanding tradition of emphasis on partnership, we are also exploring new ways to be a better and stronger partner to groups large and small who are aligned with our causes. In every area of our work, we are prevailing in tough cases, making good law, and forcing change on the ground. Here are just a few recent highlights: strengthening protections against pesticide poisonings in a major win for farmworkers, pesticide handlers, their families, and the broader public, a federal court ruled in march 2018 that the environmental protection agency illegally delayed implementation of key pesticide safeguards that protect workers and the public from poisonings. The lawsuit was filed by earthjustice and farmworker justice on behalf of the farmworker association of florida, united farm workers, pineros y campesinos unidos del noroeste, california rural legal assistance foundation and pesticide action network north america. Defending highly endangered southwestern wolves thanks to a federal district court ruling in our favor, the u.s. Fish and wildlife service must revise a rule that unlawfully imposed roadblocks to the recovery of mexican gray wolves. The mexican wolf, the famed "lobo" of the american southwest, is one of the most endangered mammals in north america, with only roughly 100 surviving in the mountains of arizona and new mexico. In april, the court rejected provisions of a 2015 federal management rule that arbitrarily limited the lobos' population numbers, banned them from needed recovery habitat, and loosened the rules against killing the animals in the wild. States' rights in fracking permits fighting alongside new york state's attorney general, we won a federal appellate court decision upholding the state's denial of a water permit for the proposed constitution fracked gas pipeline. The decision reinforces that states can say no to pipeline projects even when the federal government says yes. National monuments earthjustice is defending the cascade-siskiyou national monument, which straddles the oregon-california border, and the northeast canyons and seamounts marine national monument off the coast of new england, against legal attacks by industry.”

“Schedule of court awarded attorney fees & costs 002414 ca neonicitinoid reevaluation 485,599.44 002554 so2 designations 242,113.23 002677 air reporting rule challenge 239,987.79 002911 montanore mine biological opin 188,667.05 003000 humboldt marten listing 182,223.30 002872 grahams & white river beardton 173,494.58 002946 bakersfield blm fracking 163,041.59 002223 industrial boilers (area sourc 110,101.77 002220 industrial boilers ii 78,736.37 001776 apple moth 75,000.00 002386 aquarium collection hepa revie 74,491.81 003339 oakland coal ordinance defense 41,723.37 003466 bp refinery air permit appeal 40,413.53 003303 indiana 2016 irps 32,639.84 002224 (ciswi 30,951.07 003288 kalama methanol 28,492.51 003021 hatfield's ferry ash landfill 24,688.81 003290 coal ash investigations 21,477.50 003506 kaua'i seabird take 15,038.35 002998 polymet/northmet sulfide mine 14,254.77 003299 gulf power rate restructure 12,546.20 003110 e.w. Brown citizen suit 11,612.10 003369 ma eversource rate case 10,841.07 003410 challenge to power pland elg 10,432.64 002615 tesoro-savage crude-by-rail 10,000.00 003450 vermilion coal ash 9,968.82 003434 nat'l grid ny 2017 rate case 9,472.56 003397 2017 co oil & gas rulemaking 9,414.52 003249 fairbanks pm 2.5 8,000.00 003243 utah regional haze defense 6,565.00 003464 blm methane rule stay 6,364.95 003115 tucson electric power rate 5,746.15 003154 access dakota pipeline 4,853.88 003245 aps 2016 rate case 4,430.80 003336 duke energy indiana coal ash 4,282.32 003488 heco rate case 4,268.37 003474 consumers energy 2017 ratecase 4,215.56 002064 west elk lease expansion 3,964.70 003515 elg rollback foia litigation 3,937.46 002314 coos bay dredging permit nm 3,926.75 003465 npc 2017 rate case 3,914.80 003430 bayou bridge pipeline 3,669.68 003531 formaldehyde in wood 3,467.61 003553 blm methane rule suspension 3,445.79 003536 central hudson ny 2017 rate 3,400.45 003139 vigneto esa consultation 3,158.58 003476 dte electric 2017 rate case 3,108.75 002609 la i-710 highway expansion 3,011.11 003513 idaho power solar classes 2,936.76 003499 ab 405 implementation 2,920.49 003035 kern county oil and gas eir 2,649.75 002888 mexican wolf 10(j) rule chall 2,450.90 003344 bears ears monument defense 2,377.69 003409 oncor rate case 2,367.00 003382 acf water control manual 2,234.25 003398 idaho power purpa storage 2,179.63 002561 dte nsr district court remand 2,144.32 002807 exelon/pepco merger proceedin 2,104.60 003400 nevada subscription solar 2,043.40 002993 amendment 1 2,036.31 003083 labadie npdes appeal 1,956.69 003421 chlorpyrifos foia 1,942.27 003306 west coast anchovy catch 1,926.12 002975 ban chlorpyrifos 1,848.25 003509 ipl new wind 2 1,799.07 003325 maryland offshore wind proceed 1,742.74 002954 grand teton wildlife jurisdict 1,725.56 002163 wyoming regional haze sip 1,692.76 003254 fl weakened water quality 1,660.12 003027 adirondack wild rivers 1,651.57 002491 seneca lake lpg storage 1,614.50 003356 ca gray wolf 1,608.99 003229 pawnee oil and gas issues 1,468.11 003359 trump reinstate fed coal 1,451.34 003273 consumers energy 2015 1,420.70 002974 doggr injection wells challeng 1,274.96 003479 srp rate litigation 1,269.29 001404 1999 hydro esa 1,268.37 003298 bpa - mt transmission barrier 1,204.52 003025 coal ash rule petition for rev 1,153.15 003374 millennium coal dnr defense 1,142.55 001435 klamath takings intervention 1,130.07 003486 ider appeal 1,121.75 003586 blm fracking rule repeal 1,101.45 003353 arctic ocean withdrawal def 1,070.32 002394 cspar better than bart 1,064.06 003130 tx & ok haze rule intervention 1,034.89 003452 duke ccr emergency action plan 1,008.45 003237 klamath reinitiation of consul 1,007.09 003511 grand staircase-escalante 1,002.40 003388 ny cafo permit challenge 979.38 003468 red snapper rec season challen 978.91 002087 6th power plan 970.52 003455 rosemont copper mine 956.69 003563 west elk coal lease ii 954.40 003228 project liberty bell 906.65 003543 2017 sps rate case 896.69 00310”

“Change in value of split-interest gift agreements -51,055.”