Environmental Integrity Project

Environmental Integrity Project
Abbreviation EIP
Formation 2002
Founders Eric Schaeffer, Michele Merkel
Type 501(c)(3) non-profit
Purpose Environmental Advocacy
Headquarters Washington, D.C.
Website http://environmentalintegrity.org/

The Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) is a Washington, D.C.-based environmental nonprofit organization that advocates for more effective enforcement of environmental laws.[1] The organization was founded in 2002 by former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) attorneys, Eric V. Schaeffer[2] and Michele Merkel.[3] EIP is known for its legal and investigative efforts to reduce air and water pollution from coal-fired power plants,[4][5] oil and gas facilities,[6][7] factory farms,[8] and other sources including incinerators[9] and waste water treatment plants.[10] The group also focuses on environmental justice and pollution in the Chesapeake Bay. EIP is headquartered in Washington, DC, and it has another office in Austin, TX and staff in Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Georgia. In 2013, Charity Navigator, an independent charity evaluator, rated EIP as a four-star charity organization.[11]

EIP maintains Ashtracker.org, a website that shows groundwater quality at coal ash disposal areas. The site relies on groundwater monitoring data from public documents.[12]

Mission

The Environmental Integrity Project’s objectives are to “1) To provide objective analysis of how the failure to enforce or implement environmental laws increases pollution and affects the public's health; 2) To hold federal and state agencies, as well as individual corporations, accountable for failing to enforce or comply with environmental laws; 3) To help local communities in key states obtain the protection of environmental laws.”[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Environmental Integrity Project". www.environmentalintegrity.org. Retrieved 2015-08-10.
  2. ↑ "Read the resignation letter from Eric Schaeffer, former head of the U.S. EPA's Office of Regulatory". Grist.
  3. ↑ "EIP 5-year Report" (PDF).
  4. ↑ "Did Texas Illegally Relax Rules on Coal Plants?". Retrieved 2015-08-10.
  5. ↑ "Tracking groundwater contamination at coal combustion waste disposal sites.". Retrieved 2015-08-10.
  6. ↑ "TRI Petition" (PDF).
  7. ↑ "Plant flares emit more pollutants than previously thought, the EPA reports". Retrieved 2015-08-10.
  8. ↑ "Green groups sue to end pollution-reporting exemptions for animal feeding operations | AgriPulse". www.agri-pulse.com. Retrieved 2015-08-10.
  9. ↑ Sun, Baltimore. "Trash-burning power project hits new snag". Retrieved 2015-08-10.
  10. ↑ "Environmental Groups Sue WSSC Over Plant". Retrieved 2015-08-10.
  11. ↑ "Charity Navigator Rating - Environmental Integrity Project". Charity Navigator. Retrieved 2015-08-10.
  12. ↑ "Tracking groundwater contamination at coal combustion waste disposal sites.". Ashtracker. Retrieved 2016-01-06.
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