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Monitors returned to the field to submit entries at 176 sites.
earned a stream health score of Acceptable, and 13% of sites could not be determined.
another 93 people started the online certification process and may complete their certification in 2022.
In addition to new monitors, A Mid-Atlantic Save Our Streams Coordinator was hired to coordinate the VASOS program (Kira Carney) and new monitors throughout Virginia.
Green dots are acceptable water quality, red dots are unacceptable, and grey dots are grey area and need further monitoring. data submissions).
Green dots are acceptable water quality, red dots are unacceptable, and grey dots are grey area and need further monitoring.
The League started a new Bay Program for our work as a partner in the Chesapeake Monitoring Cooperative.
This new agreement continues our work supporting volunteer and community monitoring, and expands the type of groups that we work with across the Chesapeake watershed .
As the CMC, we work with about have uploaded over 500,000 data points to our Chesapeake Data Explorer.
We also received a grant from the Chesapeake Bay Trust to develop a new benthic monitoring method to collect field samples for lab processing.
This protocol is meant to help fill in data gaps in rarely sampled areas, and help the Chesapeake Bay Program have a better understanding of stream health across the watershed.
The CMC team also was awarded a new grant from NFWF to develop a program monitoring habitat and stream health at restoration projects in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
Free to download for iOS or Android smart phones, Creek Critters introduces kids, adults, and everyone in between to macroinvertebrate monitoring.
IWLA has promoted Creek Critters through social media posts that have reached thousands of viewers and through tabling events and presentations.
Association for Environmental Education virtual conferences and at family festivals and farmer’s markets.
Thanks to our outreach, the Creek Critters app collected reports throughout the country, 433 of which have been transferred to the Clean Water Hub.
To learn more about the app, visit www.iwla.org/creekcritters.
Salt Watchers have made the news with their letters to the editor, and others and contacting their city, homeowners association, or county council to ask for change when it comes to improving their water quality.
Check out some of the winning photos below.
Share your own success stories and lessons learned by tagging us on social media or emailing us directly.
Our work simply couldn't be done without our hundreds of dedicated volunteers.
THANK YOU to all of our monitors across the country: you are the first line of defense for clean water.
Now more than ever we need your data and your voice to protect our nation's waterways.
and Honorary Life Trustees Late afternoon light bathes the trees of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska.
Carlos Rojas / Getty Images Fifty years ago, Earthjustice was founded in an era of unprecedented lawmaking in response to environmental crises that gripped the public consciousness—from rivers on fire and deadly smog to massive oil spills and rampant chemical poisoning.
In the early Agency, and Congress passed our bedrock environmental laws, giving us all extraordinary power to hold polluters and the federal government accountable for protecting our health, our communities, and the ecosystems that sustain all life.
For five decades, we have put those laws to work for us in practice, all the while deepening our expertise and growing our work to represent more clients, in more venues, in more places around the country and the world.
We have branched into new areas of law and evolved our strategies to rise to the challenges we face now, and we are winning more cases and delivering greater real-life impact than ever before.
This is all thanks to the confidence of generous supporters like you.
We are so grateful for the capacity we continue to build, because our work has never been more urgently needed.
Over the last year, our scale and reach have made it possible to continue fighting the rearguard battles that began under the Trump administration, and among many other victories, we can celebrate new and restored protections for the Tongass Forest, the Arctic Ocean, and our precious National Monuments including Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.
Meanwhile, we have ramped up affirmative litigation and advocacy to force faster progress on climate and the essential transition to clean energy, community health protection, and biodiversity defense.
In the pages that follow, you will see some of the ways in which we are propelling solutions on every front.
This decade requires us to meet unforgiving environmental deadlines.
We are living with the increasingly harsh consequences of climate inaction.
The devastating intersection of toxic pollution and race has only become more deadly in the pandemic.
Scientists are sounding the alarm that mass extinctions threaten our entire web of life.
The challenges are immense, but the possibilities for disruption and swift change are very live.
Over fifty years, Earthjustice has honed our skills to compel action and catalyze change, and we are putting those skills to work at a new scale to help secure a healthier, more just future.
Thank you for supporting us to do all we can in these make-or-break years.
Your contributions to the Never Rest campaign, our first-ever comprehensive fundraising campaign, are making it possible for us to hire more exceptionally talented staff and pursue ever more ambitious goals alongside more incredible leaders whom we are proud to represent as clients.
A LETTER FROM OUR PRESIDENT AND BOARD CHAIR Fern Shepard (left) and Abigail Dillen.
In the fifty years since Earthjustice was founded, we have represented thousands of clients to preserve what is precious.
Looking back, we celebrate the ancient forests that are still standing, the living creatures that are still thriving, all the places where people can enjoy the right to clean air and water.
Looking ahead, we are rising to the unprecedented challenges before us.
With inspired and courageous partners, we are propelling a transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.
We can and we must repair centuries of damage as we secure a better, healthier, more just future.
These pages highlight just some of the victories that lay the foundation for transformative impact in this all-important decade.
One of Earthjustice’s earliest victories, this successful suit confirmed the right of citizens to take environmental disputes to court.
See 50 of our proudest accomplishments that truly changed the world we live in now and into the future.
Our team prevented the nation’s largest proposed coal plant from being built in the Everglades – making way for a solar plant instead.
Our attorneys defended the historic veto of the massive Spruce No. Mine, turning the tide against the devastating practice of mountaintop removal in Appalachia.
Jill Tauber, Earthjustice Vice President of Litigation for Climate and Energy Left to right: Earthjustice attorneys Oscar Espino-Padron and Byron Chan talk with Jan Victor Andasan, a community organizer with East Yard Communities for Environmental Change, in front of the Phillips 66 refinery in Carson, California.
Hannah Benet for Earthjustice With their unparalleled expertise, our attorneys continue to hold the line against the previous administration’s assault on critical protections for communities and the environment.
We will never back down from this fight.
Each of the following victories represents years, sometimes decades, of litigation that has moved us one step forward in a larger effort, indeed a movement greater than any single organization can encompass.
We are taking on our country’s biggest challenges and building an equitable, just, and climate-resilient world — leaving no one behind.
The Los Angeles region is home to the largest collection of petroleum refineries on the West Coast, many of which are situated within communities of color that consequently suffer sky-high rates of asthma, cancer, and cardiovascular disease.
Thanks to community organizing by East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, we built a powerful case against Phillips based on years of bad practices, including failures to conduct proper inspections and repair leaking equipment that discharged toxic fugitive emissions.
In April, after we filed notice of intent to sue, Phillips action to protect people’s health as the law requires.
“ The outcome of this case represents the power that community has with our voice, our stories and our ability to organize towards a common goal of trying to breathe in our neighborhoods.
Jan Victor Andasan, Community Organizer for East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice Kids play soccer near the Phillips 66 refinery in Wilmington, California.
drilling, and the looting of centuries-old archaeological sites.
Following in the footsteps of several Native American tribes, Earthjustice sued the Trump administration over its move to shrink Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monuments.
Our cases and the threat of further litigation helped to keep these lands safe from development through the duration of the Trump administration until President Biden restored the original boundaries of all three national monuments.
of the Navajo Nation A summer storm creates double rainbows over the Comb Ridge in Bears Ears National Monument.
The science has long been clear, and now the law supports it: toxic pesticides have no place in our food.
In August, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it will ban chlorpyrifos, the toxic pesticide linked to lifelong intellectual disabilities, from all food crops.
Earthjustice represented farmworkers, health, labor, and learning disability organizations in a protection.
The ban of chlorpyrifos from food uses is a huge milestone in the pursuit of total elimination of the full class of harmful organophosphates from our communities.
Yanely Martinez, a city councilmember in Greenfield, California and member of Safe Ag Safe Schools, protests outside the California Environmental Protection Agency headquarters after a public hearing on adding restrictions on the use of chlorpyrifos in pesticides.
In its search for petroleum, the oil industry acquires authorizations that allow companies to “incidentally” harm whales and other animals when blasting the ocean floor with seismic air guns.
Earthjustice and a broad coalition of marine wildlife advocates spent two years in litigation fighting authorizations for air gun surveys in the Atlantic Ocean.
The industry’s authorizations expired before it could start even a single survey.
Steve Mashuda, Earthjustice Managing Attorney - Oceans A North Atlantic right whale in Cape Cod Bay.
A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT In May, the Maya children of Homún won a resounding victory in front of Mexico’s Supreme Court, defeating a highly polluting industrial hog facility in Yucatán, Mexico that threatened to unleash millions of pounds of animal waste, among other pollutants, into the Maya community.
Earthjustice was privileged to represent the Maya children in their fight to protect their constitutional right to a healthy environment and dignified life.
Beyond the important result in this case, this landmark ruling will operate more broadly to strengthen this essential constitutional right in practice.
SACRED LANDS FROM MINING We have been fighting the Rock Creek copper and silver mine project for over 20 years.
The mine, proposed for the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness of northwest Montana, would threaten already vulnerable grizzly bears, bull trout, and sacred and aboriginal lands of the Ktunaxa Nation.
In April district court ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service violated the Endangered Species Act by unlawfully ignoring the impacts of the full mine proposal on federally protected wildlife.
This victory is yet another setback for a mine that we will never stop fighting.
Earthjustice and our partners celebrated in April when Illinois state regulators finalized rules implementing the Coal Ash Pollution Prevention Act, a vanguard law that we secured in to address coal ash pollution.
The rules establish protective safeguards for the operation, cleanup, and closure of toxic coal ash ponds.
The finalized rules also rejected industry efforts to exclude certain ponds from the protections.
These new rules provide a model for the nation, as we work to shutter coal plants and address their enormous legacy of toxic waste.
Katherine O’Brien was an attorney in Earthjustice’s Northern Rockies office for seven years, where she worked to defend the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness.
She now works in Earthjustice’s Toxic Exposure and Health Program.
INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE MIDWEST In October petrochemical build-out in the Ohio River Valley.
Ohio regulators canceled permits for the Mountaineer gas storage facility which, if built, would facilitate the development of additional infrastructure that would turn fracked gas into the feedstock for plastics, emitting millions of tons of carbon pollution and cancer-causing air toxics in the process.
Earthjustice represented a coalition of environmental groups and clean water advocates and demonstrated that the Ohio Department of Natural Resources violated their own state regulations as well as the federal Safe Drinking Water Act in issuing the contested permit.
OF OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING When our government greenlights fossil-fuel projects without assessing their climate impacts, they are breaking the law.
In December Ocean Energy Management’s approval of the giant Hilcorp Liberty oil and gas project in the Beaufort Sea.
The proposed project was in the heart of polar bear habitat and would have been the first offshore oildrilling development in federal Arctic waters.
This court win has not only stopped the Liberty project, but it has also set an important precedent that is helping us defeat other fossil fuels development, including the massive Willow drilling project proposed in the Western Arctic.
After years of litigation, Earthjustice and our partners stopped Northwest Innovation Works’ proposed fracked-gas-to-methanol facility behemoth in Kalama, Washington.
The facility was slated to produce millions of tons of methanol every year.
After we prevailed in both state and federal litigation, the company officially abandoned the project in June.
This plant would have polluted nearby communities and locked in climate-warming emissions for decades to come.
Since has defeated over a dozen coal export terminals, oil-by-rail proposals, and fracked gas facilities in the Pacific Northwest.

Monitors returned to the field to submit entries at 176 sites.

earned a stream health score of Acceptable, and 13% of sites could not be determined.

another 93 people started the online certification process and may complete their certification in 2022.

In addition to new monitors, A Mid-Atlantic Save Our Streams Coordinator was hired to coordinate the VASOS program (Kira Carney) and new monitors throughout Virginia.

Green dots are acceptable water quality, red dots are unacceptable, and grey dots are grey area and need further monitoring. data submissions).

Green dots are acceptable water quality, red dots are unacceptable, and grey dots are grey area and need further monitoring.

The League started a new Bay Program for our work as a partner in the Chesapeake Monitoring Cooperative.

This new agreement continues our work supporting volunteer and community monitoring, and expands the type of groups that we work with across the Chesapeake watershed .

As the CMC, we work with about have uploaded over 500,000 data points to our Chesapeake Data Explorer.

We also received a grant from the Chesapeake Bay Trust to develop a new benthic monitoring method to collect field samples for lab processing.

This protocol is meant to help fill in data gaps in rarely sampled areas, and help the Chesapeake Bay Program have a better understanding of stream health across the watershed.

The CMC team also was awarded a new grant from NFWF to develop a program monitoring habitat and stream health at restoration projects in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

Free to download for iOS or Android smart phones, Creek Critters introduces kids, adults, and everyone in between to macroinvertebrate monitoring.

IWLA has promoted Creek Critters through social media posts that have reached thousands of viewers and through tabling events and presentations.

Association for Environmental Education virtual conferences and at family festivals and farmer’s markets.

Thanks to our outreach, the Creek Critters app collected reports throughout the country, 433 of which have been transferred to the Clean Water Hub.

To learn more about the app, visit www.iwla.org/creekcritters.

Salt Watchers have made the news with their letters to the editor, and others and contacting their city, homeowners association, or county council to ask for change when it comes to improving their water quality.

Check out some of the winning photos below.

Share your own success stories and lessons learned by tagging us on social media or emailing us directly.

Our work simply couldn't be done without our hundreds of dedicated volunteers.

THANK YOU to all of our monitors across the country: you are the first line of defense for clean water.

Now more than ever we need your data and your voice to protect our nation's waterways.

and Honorary Life Trustees Late afternoon light bathes the trees of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska.

Carlos Rojas / Getty Images Fifty years ago, Earthjustice was founded in an era of unprecedented lawmaking in response to environmental crises that gripped the public consciousness—from rivers on fire and deadly smog to massive oil spills and rampant chemical poisoning.

In the early Agency, and Congress passed our bedrock environmental laws, giving us all extraordinary power to hold polluters and the federal government accountable for protecting our health, our communities, and the ecosystems that sustain all life.

For five decades, we have put those laws to work for us in practice, all the while deepening our expertise and growing our work to represent more clients, in more venues, in more places around the country and the world.

We have branched into new areas of law and evolved our strategies to rise to the challenges we face now, and we are winning more cases and delivering greater real-life impact than ever before.

This is all thanks to the confidence of generous supporters like you.

We are so grateful for the capacity we continue to build, because our work has never been more urgently needed.

Over the last year, our scale and reach have made it possible to continue fighting the rearguard battles that began under the Trump administration, and among many other victories, we can celebrate new and restored protections for the Tongass Forest, the Arctic Ocean, and our precious National Monuments including Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.

Meanwhile, we have ramped up affirmative litigation and advocacy to force faster progress on climate and the essential transition to clean energy, community health protection, and biodiversity defense.

In the pages that follow, you will see some of the ways in which we are propelling solutions on every front.

This decade requires us to meet unforgiving environmental deadlines.

We are living with the increasingly harsh consequences of climate inaction.

The devastating intersection of toxic pollution and race has only become more deadly in the pandemic.

Scientists are sounding the alarm that mass extinctions threaten our entire web of life.

The challenges are immense, but the possibilities for disruption and swift change are very live.

Over fifty years, Earthjustice has honed our skills to compel action and catalyze change, and we are putting those skills to work at a new scale to help secure a healthier, more just future.

Thank you for supporting us to do all we can in these make-or-break years.

Your contributions to the Never Rest campaign, our first-ever comprehensive fundraising campaign, are making it possible for us to hire more exceptionally talented staff and pursue ever more ambitious goals alongside more incredible leaders whom we are proud to represent as clients.

A LETTER FROM OUR PRESIDENT AND BOARD CHAIR Fern Shepard (left) and Abigail Dillen.

In the fifty years since Earthjustice was founded, we have represented thousands of clients to preserve what is precious.

Looking back, we celebrate the ancient forests that are still standing, the living creatures that are still thriving, all the places where people can enjoy the right to clean air and water.

Looking ahead, we are rising to the unprecedented challenges before us.

With inspired and courageous partners, we are propelling a transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.

We can and we must repair centuries of damage as we secure a better, healthier, more just future.

These pages highlight just some of the victories that lay the foundation for transformative impact in this all-important decade.

One of Earthjustice’s earliest victories, this successful suit confirmed the right of citizens to take environmental disputes to court.

See 50 of our proudest accomplishments that truly changed the world we live in now and into the future.

Our team prevented the nation’s largest proposed coal plant from being built in the Everglades – making way for a solar plant instead.

Our attorneys defended the historic veto of the massive Spruce No. Mine, turning the tide against the devastating practice of mountaintop removal in Appalachia.

Jill Tauber, Earthjustice Vice President of Litigation for Climate and Energy Left to right: Earthjustice attorneys Oscar Espino-Padron and Byron Chan talk with Jan Victor Andasan, a community organizer with East Yard Communities for Environmental Change, in front of the Phillips 66 refinery in Carson, California.

Hannah Benet for Earthjustice With their unparalleled expertise, our attorneys continue to hold the line against the previous administration’s assault on critical protections for communities and the environment.

We will never back down from this fight.

Each of the following victories represents years, sometimes decades, of litigation that has moved us one step forward in a larger effort, indeed a movement greater than any single organization can encompass.

We are taking on our country’s biggest challenges and building an equitable, just, and climate-resilient world — leaving no one behind.

The Los Angeles region is home to the largest collection of petroleum refineries on the West Coast, many of which are situated within communities of color that consequently suffer sky-high rates of asthma, cancer, and cardiovascular disease.

Thanks to community organizing by East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, we built a powerful case against Phillips based on years of bad practices, including failures to conduct proper inspections and repair leaking equipment that discharged toxic fugitive emissions.

In April, after we filed notice of intent to sue, Phillips action to protect people’s health as the law requires.

“ The outcome of this case represents the power that community has with our voice, our stories and our ability to organize towards a common goal of trying to breathe in our neighborhoods.

Jan Victor Andasan, Community Organizer for East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice Kids play soccer near the Phillips 66 refinery in Wilmington, California.

drilling, and the looting of centuries-old archaeological sites.

Following in the footsteps of several Native American tribes, Earthjustice sued the Trump administration over its move to shrink Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monuments.

Our cases and the threat of further litigation helped to keep these lands safe from development through the duration of the Trump administration until President Biden restored the original boundaries of all three national monuments.

of the Navajo Nation A summer storm creates double rainbows over the Comb Ridge in Bears Ears National Monument.

The science has long been clear, and now the law supports it: toxic pesticides have no place in our food.

In August, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it will ban chlorpyrifos, the toxic pesticide linked to lifelong intellectual disabilities, from all food crops.

Earthjustice represented farmworkers, health, labor, and learning disability organizations in a protection.

The ban of chlorpyrifos from food uses is a huge milestone in the pursuit of total elimination of the full class of harmful organophosphates from our communities.

Yanely Martinez, a city councilmember in Greenfield, California and member of Safe Ag Safe Schools, protests outside the California Environmental Protection Agency headquarters after a public hearing on adding restrictions on the use of chlorpyrifos in pesticides.

In its search for petroleum, the oil industry acquires authorizations that allow companies to “incidentally” harm whales and other animals when blasting the ocean floor with seismic air guns.

Earthjustice and a broad coalition of marine wildlife advocates spent two years in litigation fighting authorizations for air gun surveys in the Atlantic Ocean.

The industry’s authorizations expired before it could start even a single survey.

Steve Mashuda, Earthjustice Managing Attorney - Oceans A North Atlantic right whale in Cape Cod Bay.

A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT In May, the Maya children of Homún won a resounding victory in front of Mexico’s Supreme Court, defeating a highly polluting industrial hog facility in Yucatán, Mexico that threatened to unleash millions of pounds of animal waste, among other pollutants, into the Maya community.

Earthjustice was privileged to represent the Maya children in their fight to protect their constitutional right to a healthy environment and dignified life.

Beyond the important result in this case, this landmark ruling will operate more broadly to strengthen this essential constitutional right in practice.

SACRED LANDS FROM MINING We have been fighting the Rock Creek copper and silver mine project for over 20 years.

The mine, proposed for the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness of northwest Montana, would threaten already vulnerable grizzly bears, bull trout, and sacred and aboriginal lands of the Ktunaxa Nation.

In April district court ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service violated the Endangered Species Act by unlawfully ignoring the impacts of the full mine proposal on federally protected wildlife.

This victory is yet another setback for a mine that we will never stop fighting.

Earthjustice and our partners celebrated in April when Illinois state regulators finalized rules implementing the Coal Ash Pollution Prevention Act, a vanguard law that we secured in to address coal ash pollution.

The rules establish protective safeguards for the operation, cleanup, and closure of toxic coal ash ponds.

The finalized rules also rejected industry efforts to exclude certain ponds from the protections.

These new rules provide a model for the nation, as we work to shutter coal plants and address their enormous legacy of toxic waste.

Katherine O’Brien was an attorney in Earthjustice’s Northern Rockies office for seven years, where she worked to defend the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness.

She now works in Earthjustice’s Toxic Exposure and Health Program.

INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE MIDWEST In October petrochemical build-out in the Ohio River Valley.

Ohio regulators canceled permits for the Mountaineer gas storage facility which, if built, would facilitate the development of additional infrastructure that would turn fracked gas into the feedstock for plastics, emitting millions of tons of carbon pollution and cancer-causing air toxics in the process.

Earthjustice represented a coalition of environmental groups and clean water advocates and demonstrated that the Ohio Department of Natural Resources violated their own state regulations as well as the federal Safe Drinking Water Act in issuing the contested permit.

OF OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING When our government greenlights fossil-fuel projects without assessing their climate impacts, they are breaking the law.

In December Ocean Energy Management’s approval of the giant Hilcorp Liberty oil and gas project in the Beaufort Sea.

The proposed project was in the heart of polar bear habitat and would have been the first offshore oildrilling development in federal Arctic waters.

This court win has not only stopped the Liberty project, but it has also set an important precedent that is helping us defeat other fossil fuels development, including the massive Willow drilling project proposed in the Western Arctic.

After years of litigation, Earthjustice and our partners stopped Northwest Innovation Works’ proposed fracked-gas-to-methanol facility behemoth in Kalama, Washington.

The facility was slated to produce millions of tons of methanol every year.

After we prevailed in both state and federal litigation, the company officially abandoned the project in June.

This plant would have polluted nearby communities and locked in climate-warming emissions for decades to come.

Since has defeated over a dozen coal export terminals, oil-by-rail proposals, and fracked gas facilities in the Pacific Northwest.