ENVIRONMENTAL LAW INSTITUTE
1730 M STREET NW 700, WASHINGTON, DC 20036 www.eli.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: TO BUILD EFFECTIVE LAW-BASED ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION SYSTEMS BY PROVIDING INFORMATION SERVICES, ADVICE, PUBLICATIONS, TRAINING COURSES, SEMINARS, RESEARCH PROGRAMS AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS IN A MANNER THAT ENGAGES AND EMPOWERS LEADERS TO ADVANCE ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE AND RULE OF LAW. ELI'S AUDIENCE IS LEADING ENVIRONMENTAL PROFESSIONALS IN GOVERNMENT, INDUSTRY, THE LAW PRACTICE COMMUNITY, PUBLIC INTEREST GROUPS, AND ACADEMIA.

To build effective law and governance systems for environmental protection by providing information services, advice, publications, training courses, seminars, research programs and policy recommendations in a manner that engages and empowers leaders and practitioners to advance environmental governance and rule of law. ELI's audience includes leading environmental professionals in government, industry, the law practice community, public interest groups, and academia.

RESEARCH AND POLICY DIVISION: Provided research, training, and technical assistance in environmental law and policy to all sectors in the U.S. and numerous foreign countries. Research programs in 2019 ranged from reporting on the global status of environmental rule of law in a flagship report with the UN Environment Programme, to convening environmental law and policy thought leaders to reimagine what environmental law should become in the coming decades, to building capacity of Chinese environmental organizations to bring public interest litigation, to empowering women and improving gender equality in environmental peacebuilding, to identifying state policy strategies for addressing key indoor environmental impacts, to developing a new community water tenure tracking methodology in partnership with the Rights and Resources Initiative and testing it in twenty countries, to advancing sustainable small-scale fisheries, to educating judges about climate science. Our on-going programs continued to provide guidance, education, and recognition to environmental professionals nationwide through the Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review, training for states, territories, and tribes on the Total Maximum Daily Load and other Clean Water Act programs, the Indoor Air Quality program, the National Wetlands Awards, and others. ELI has become a global leader of the new field of environmental peacebuilding. This field integrates natural resource management into conflict prevention, mitigation, resolution, and recovery to build resilience in communities affected by conflict. This year, our environmental peacebuilding program continued to expand our delivery of information though our website, newsletter, workshops, and publications. ELI plays a leading role developing better legal systems to govern ocean resources. ELI continued its critical work in the Gulf of Mexico, which has included developing an interactive database and map of Deepwater Horizon restoration projects to raise awareness among Gulf state citizens of where and how restoration funds are being spent. We brought together state, tribal, territorial, and federal Clean Water Act officials for a three-day workshop on innovations and effective collaborations for achieving water quality restoration and protection. For a fuller description of our programs, please refer to our annual report which can be found at www.eli.org.

EDUCATION DIVISION: Led more than 137 education events, including 50th Anniversary programming, Master Classes, conferences, webinars, co-sponsored programs, a Breaking News webinar, policy forums, networking receptions, convenings, topical conference calls, Summer School seminars, seminars and more, for over 11,800 environmental professionals in a number of states, including California, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Washington, DC. Highlights included: the 50th Anniversary Programming, including 12 monthly topics encompassing 28 signature 50th Anniversary programs; Master Classes on current and emerging issues of greatest interest to environmental legal practitioners including natural gas and pipelines, mitigating environmental liability, responding to environmental inspection and enforcement actions, climate change mitigation and adaptation, managing for multiple use in a changing world, managing private sector environmental initiatives, navigating NEPA 50 years later; Conferences on sustainable infrastructure and resilience, environmental law, environmental policy, addressing climate change, EPA and the future of environmental protection, law and regulation of the Clean Water Act, TSCA: Three Years Later, representing truth in agriculture, MTCA 30: three decades of Washington's contaminated site cleanup law; Breaking News webinar on revisions affecting the Endangered Species Act; The annual Corporate Forum on the corporate obstacles and opportunities with renewable energy; The ELI-Miriam Hamilton Keare Policy Forum on reassessing nuclear power in a climate sensitive world; and Seminars covering the most current topics in environmental, energy, and natural resources law and policy. Topics included: energy and resiliency, the circular economy, climate mitigation, pollution prevention, CERCLA environmental peacebuilding, whistleblower laws, environmental enforcement, the Federal-State relationship, hazardous waste pharmaceuticals and nicotine, the Global Pact for the Environment, migration with dignity, the PG&E Bankruptcy, citizen enforcement, solid and hazardous waste in China, environmental rule of law, the future of the electricity grid, legal pathways to deep decarbonization in the United States, state and local advances in energy and the environment, the future of wetlands protection, plastic pollution, sustainable investment in agriculture, women and environmental law careers, low carbon fuels, wildfires, women leaders in developing U.S. environmental law, community-based water tenure and women in water diplomacy, environmental law and enforcement in China, developing future leaders through non-profit board and community service, science in the courts, bioplastics, turning networking occasions into career opportunities, groundwater discharges, genetic engineering, the value of increased women on corporate boards, enforcement in marine protected areas, sustainability programs and mergers and acquisitions environmental due diligence, cybersecurity, translating science for trial, reconciling water quality and quantity management, the Endangered Species Act, managing the Great Lakes, managing marine litter, local enforcement of international wildlife law, women leading innovation in climate change, voluntary corporate programs, partnerships to reduce air emissions, and more. We continued our Summer School Seminar Series offerings, which provide an introduction to the legal and policy foundations of environmental protection in the United States, with sessions that covered land use, product regulation, hazardous waste, clean water, clean air, and climate change, among other topics. We expanded Summer School to eight sessions with the addition of a seminar on environmental justice. We hosted the annual Supreme Court Review and Preview program at Harvard Law School. We continued our discussion series for in-house corporate environment health and safety leaders, holding a program on managing environmental compliance through the global supply chain and during transactions. Our Eastern and Western Boot Camps on Environmental Law in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, CA, continued to provide early career environmental professionals with training on critical aspects of environmental law and their application by leading environmental practitioners from across the U.S. who serve as faculty. And our monthly climate change briefings provided regular conference call updates on developments in climate policy in the U.S. and around the globe. For a fuller description of our programs, please refer to our annual report which can be found at www.eli.org

PUBLICATIONS DIVISION: Provided timely, accurate, and practical information to environmental professionals through nationally recognized publications: the Environmental Law Reporter and The Environmental Forum. ELI Press advanced the field by publishing two books, Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States by Michael B. Gerrard and John C. Dernbach (editors) and Beyond Zero-Sum Environmentalism by Sarah Krakoff, Melissa Powers, and Jonathan Rosenbloom editors). The Environmental Law Reporter remains the most cited publication of its type in the nation and draws premier authors on current legal events. And ELI's award-winning The Environmental Forum continued to provide the best coverage of the environmental profession and environmental policy. For a fuller description of our programs, please refer to our annual report which can be found at www.eli.org.

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