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E n v i r o n m e nt
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P h o t o l e f t : S t e v e F l e i s c h l i , S a nt a M o n i c a B a y K e e p e r ; M a ti W a y ia , V e n t u r a C o a st K e e p e r ; B r u ce R e z n i k, S a n D i e g o Ba y K e e p e r ; D e n i s e W a s h k o,
C a l i fo r n i a C o a st K e e p e r ; D r e w B o h a n , S a n t a B a r b a r a C h a n n e l K e e p e r ; a n d G a r r y B r o w n , O r a n g e C o u n t y C o a s t K e e p e r
Pho to r ight:
K r i s H a d da d , M a r t i n L i t t o n , a n d Te r r y Ta m m i n e n r e t u r n i ng f r o m a f l i g h t o v e r t h e S e q u o ia s
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Environment Now 2000
ME SS AG E FR OM OUR PRE SID ENT & E XE CU TIV E D IRE CT OR
2000 was a watershed year for Environment Now. We expanded our staff and achieved the
critical mass necessary to actively engage in the five program areas discussed in the
following pages. We believe that if we can achieve our goals in each of these areas, we will
make a major contribution in assuring a healthy future for California’s ecosystems and urban
environment.
In 2000 we started and staffed a new organization here at Environment Now dedicated to the
protection and restoration of our coastal waters. This organization, the California CoastKeeper,
has now matured to the point that we are ready to spin it off. In 2001 the CoastKeeper will
become a stand-alone, nonprofit organization.
In 2000 we also strengthened our ties with Lawyers for Clean Water, a dedicated band of
environmental attorneys. They provide invaluable support in just about all of our program
areas since water is the common thread running through most of the state’s critical
environmental issues.
In October we finally moved our offices into a “recycled” building in Santa Monica. The
building is roomy, providing plenty of space for our new law library and for conferences of up
to 40 participants.
The new facility means all our staff members now have offices—yes, some had actually been
working at home—and we have space left over for interns, volunteers, and other workers in
need of a desk on a part time basis. We also have plenty of reserved parking.
Everyone is very pleased with the building. And now that we have settled in we are back to
fighting for the environment.
The next time you are in the neighborhood, drop in. We will show you around and buy you a
cup of coffee. Or you can visit us at our web site, www.environmentnow.org.
Kevin Wells
Terry Tamminen
President
Executive Director
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EN V I R O N M E N T N O W PR O G R A M
O ver the past few years our focus has been ex pa nded but still ma i nta i ns an emphas i s
on Sou thern Ca l i f orn ia. As we enter the 21 st centu ry, Env i ron ment Now’s five ma i n
prog ram areas are Ur ban and Sma rt Grow th Issues, Coastal Restoration, For est
Pr eserv ation, Fr esh Water Conserv ation, and Air Qua l ity Restoration.
Ur ba n & S ma rt Grow th I ssue s
W ith an antici pated incr ease of Ca l i f orn ia’s popu lation by 25 million to 58 million in the next 40
yea r s, the problems cr eated by urban sprawl will conti nue to grow as a ma jor env i ron menta l
i ssue. Sprawl destroys our natu ral resou rces, pol l u tes the env i ron ment th rough the incr eased
use of veh icles, consu mes more resou rces than centra l ized development and tu rns cr itica l
open space and fa r m la nd into ha rdscape.
In add ition to popu lation grow th, much of this sprawl is linked to the de ter iorati ng qua l ity of life
in our cities. In order to reduce sprawl and protect Ca l i f orn ia’s env i ron ment, we must ma ke ou r
cities more appea l i ng, livable, and “user fr iend ly ” .
Park to Playa
In an effort to make Los Angeles more livable while protecting its natural resources, Environment Now
kicked off the “Park to Playa” project in 2000. This project capitalizes on a unique opportunity to preserve
over 2,000 acres of wetlands, riparian habitat, and open space as parkland. This area can be separated into
three components:
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w The first component is the area known as the Ballona Wetlands, consisting of approximately 1,000 acres of
lowland marsh and upland wildlife habitat. The restoration of this property would generate significant
economic, social and environmental benefits, including preserving a portion of the remaining 10% of
California wetlands.
w The second component is the area known as the Baldwin Hills. Easily accessible to millions of residents,
the majority of the Baldwin Hills is being used for oil production. The eventual conversion of the nearly 800
acres of “brownfields” into parkland would give the citizens of Los Angeles a chance to escape the daily
eyesores of concrete and taillights.
w The third component is the natural existing connection between the Ballona Wetlands and the Baldwin Hills.
La Ballona Creek has been channeled by concrete for flood control since the 1930’s. By restoring native
vegetation, creating a scenic “river walk” complete with bike and pedestrian trails, observation posts for
birding and educational activities, the true value of the creek can be realized.
By connecting the Ballona Wetlands to its historic watershed, the Baldwin Hills, via La Ballona Creek, we have
a once in a lifetime opportunity to preserve the last remaining, contiguous parcel of open space inside the
city. Not only would this approach enhance the natural environment, the cultural, physical, social and
economic benefits to the people of Los Angeles would be innumerable. One only has to look at the long-term
benefits created by Central Park in New York and Golden Gate Park in San Francisco to realize the potential of
a Park to Playa greenbelt.
Re-visioning Los Angeles
Regardless of the issue, be it clean water, clean air, or parks and open space, Environment Now believes that
many of the problems of urban life are the result of poor planning by our cities and counties. If we change
the dynamic of regional planning efforts, we might also impact those very areas that we have long battled to
protect - the health and safety of our urban neighbors and the environment.
It is imperative—not only for our region but for society as a whole—to begin to develop consistency in
planning our future development while taking into account the environment, social equity and economics.
The sad shape of the Los Angeles County General Plan and its inadequate update process are a good starting
point for a regional and national debate on this vital issue.
Given the unique opportunity afforded by the update process, Environment Now has assembled a coalition of
interested organizations, the Los Angeles Livability Coalition, and enlisted their participation in various
aspects of the preparation of a “regional livability plan” for Los Angeles County. This plan will be used to put
forward our vision of a sustainable county and to guide a “comprehensive update” of the General Plan.
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Coa stal Re stor at ion
The goals of this prog ram are to the restore and protect Ca l i f orn ia’s coastal waters and its 1,10 0
m i les of coast l i ne. We use the water keeper mo del to ach ieve this end. A keeper is a nongovern mental om budsper son whose special respons i bi l ity is to ad vo cate for a water bo dy. At a
m i n i mu m, the keeper ad vo cates for compl ia n ce with env i ron mental law s, responds to citizen
compla i nts, identi f ies problems on the water bo dy, dev i ses appropr iate remed ies incl ud i ng
l itigation, and ad vo cates for the publ ic's rig ht to protect and defend the env i ron ment.
P h o t o : T i m o t hy Tr e a d w e l l
California CoastKeeper
The CoastKeeper, founded by Environment Now in 2000 to implement our coastal restoration program,
coordinates the efforts of the Southern California keeper organizations (see sidebar on opposite page) on
common requirements and issues. The CoastKeeper’s primary goal in bringing these programs
together is to develop synergy to facilitate tasks such as litigation, habitat restoration, public education,
and fundraising.
The CoastKeeper is also committed to assist citizens throughout the state develop successful keeper
programs in their own watersheds by providing technical, organizational, and funding support.
When cooperative strategies such as education and advocacy fail to end a specific threat to our waters, the
Southern California Keepers acting in concert with Lawyers for Clean Water and other environmental
attorneys will resort to a litigated solution. Much of the Keeper litigation is supported by a revolving fund that
provides the upfront funding necessary to bring suits.
Publicly Owned Treatment Works, a fancy name for public sewer systems, were the Keepers primary targets
in the fight for clean water in 2000. Systems operated by the cities of San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Los
Angeles and various agencies in Orange County have been targeted, primarily for leaking sewers.
Other CoastKeeper litigation in 2000 focused on the Environmental Protection Agency for not setting limits
on pollutants flowing into impaired waterways, the State Water Resources Control Board for weak storm water
runoff requirements from construction sites, and the Department of the Interior on behalf of the State of
California on offshore oil leases.
As stewards of our waters, it is critical for the Keepers to continually monitor pollutant levels. Given the high
cost associated with professional water quality monitoring, the Keepers rely on citizen volunteers to staff
their monitoring programs. The CoastKeeper has been actively working with each of the Keepers to develop
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and update their citizen monitoring programs. The CoastKeeper is also developing a geographic information
system (GIS) to systematically handle the vast amount of data generated by the volunteers and allow for its
meaningful interpretation.
All of the Southern California Keepers are developing habitat and species restoration programs along the lines
of the kelp restoration programs that have been implemented by the Santa Monica BayKeeper and the Orange
County CoastKeeper. Since kelp has faired better in San Diego and Santa Barbara than in Los Angeles region
over the past decade, the Keepers there will focus on other species. San Diego Bay has historically had vast
eelgrass beds that the BayKeeper will start restoring while the Santa Barbara ChannelKeeper will work to find
methods to bring back the abalone, an integral species in the kelp ecosystem.
Many of California’s marine fisheries continue to be unsustainably exploited through over fishing. As a result
catches have been trending down over the past decades and some species, such as the abalone, are on the
verge of being extirpated from local waters. The CoastKeeper has been meeting with various regional and
local groups interested in protecting marine fisheries with the aim of developing a unique role for the
organization. As a first step, CoastKeeper in 2000 joined the Ocean Wilderness Society, which promotes the
development of fully protected marine areas up and down the Pacific Coast.
As Keeper organizations have proliferated across the country and around the world – there are now over 70 – so too have they in Southern California. In 1993 the first
Keeper organization in the region was launched in Santa Monica Bay. Today there are five along the Southern California B ight: the Santa Barbara ChannelKeeper,
Ventura CoastKeeper, Santa Monica BayKeeper, Orange County CoastKeeper and San Diego BayKeeper. While their missions vary with locale, they are all concerned
with habitat preservation and restoration and fighting pollution be it from leaking sewers, industry, agriculture, development, or storm water runoff.
Windows-on-Our-Waters
During 2000 the CoastKeeper began raising funds for Windows-on-Our-Waters, a unique educational program
that will bring an actual, living marine ecosystem to elementary, middle, and high school students in
Southern California. Windows-on-Our-Waters is comprised of a 53’ eighteen-wheeler with an installed 3,600gallon salt-water aquarium, called the MobileOcean, and an accompanying vehicle, the Traveling Discovery
Center, containing a touch tank and computer-learning lab. When on the road, Windows-on-Our-Waters will
bring the ocean and its inhabitants to the schoolyard. In addition to learning about marine species, the
students will learn about the impact of pollution on the ocean and how they can prevent pollution in their
daily lives. To see more about this innovative project, visit www.windowsonourwaters.org.
Crude Awakenings
In September Environment Now and the Santa Monica BayKeeper released a report exploring the question of
what is being done to prevent oil spills along the Southern California coast. Crude Awakenings: Could an
Exxon Valdez Spill Happen in Southern California discloses that agency complacency has replaced the
vigilance exhibited in the months after the Exxon Valdez spill. Hopefully, Crude Awakenings will challenge
officials at all levels to reexamine prevention measures and tighten any found lacking. Response measures
must also be evaluated through actual drills to assure that we can cope with a catastrophic spill.
Crude Awakenings can be found in its entirety in the “Project Spotlight” section of our website,
www.environmentnow.org.
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Fo r e s t P r e s e r v a t i o n
For estry pr eserv ation is Env i ron ment Now’s first and thus longest ru n n i ng prog ram area.
In past years we have rel ied heav i ly upon litigation to fig ht the irrespons i ble destruction of
Ca l i f orn ia’s for ests.
While ex pens i ve, litigation will remain our main weapon for the
f or eseeable futu r e.
In 2000 we sig n i f ica nt ly incr eased the geog raph ical scope of our prog ram by add i ng Sier ra
Nev ada for ests north of Sequoia. We now cons ider for estry projects in virtua l ly all of Ca l i f orn ia’s
f or ests, be they on pr i v ate or publ ic la nds, in the Sier ra or the North Coast.
Photo: Mar tin L itton
Private Land Forestry
While there are rules to protect forests and promote sustainable forestry on private land, they are often
inadequate or are not enforced. For various reasons ranging from property rights to politics, government
agencies such as the California Department of Forestry and the overseeing Board of Forestry are often
hesitant to interfere with the management of private forests even when the impacts are felt far beyond the
forest in question.
Accordingly, Environment Now and our partners have been looking at strategies to change the status quo,
especially in the Sierra Nevada. One effort will focus on forcing the state to evaluate timber harvest plans not
as stand-alone proposals, but in conjunction with other completed and proposed logging projects. Without
evaluating the cumulative impact of all logging projects within a given watershed or region, the effect on the
environment cannot be adequately assessed.
Our partner on California’s North Coast is the Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC). During
2000 we provided partial support for two of their very important cases. The first, an Endangered Species Act
case against the state seeks to protect coho salmon from harm caused by irresponsible logging operations.
The coho are dependent on cool, clean water. If logging occurs too close to salmon streams, the sediment
load can increase to the point where it smothers salmon eggs and, without trees, water temperature can rise
to the point where the fish cannot survive.
EPIC is also part of an effort to challenge the area’s Regional Water Quality Control Board to terminate the
waiver of waste discharge requirements for logging operations and to compel fur ther action by the water
board to better protect the rivers and streams on the North Coast. In the past companies such as Pacific
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Lumber have not had to comply with clean water standards for the runoff from their logging operations –
runoff that carries sediment and toxics into the streams and rivers.
Environment Now has also helped fund an effort to protect the Hole in the Headwaters. When the
Headwaters Forest Reserve was acquired a few years ago, 700 acres square in the middle of the Reserve was
left in the hands of Pacific Lumber. When the timber company sought to log the area, several groups filed suit
to stop it because of the threat to the South Fork of the Elk River and the habitat value of the Reserve. A trial
is scheduled for 2001.
Public Land Forestry
Over the past decade Environment Now’s public land forestry campaign has focused primarily on protecting
Sequoia National Forest. This effort seemingly paid off when in April 2000 President Clinton designated a
portion of the forest a national monument. However, numerous loopholes were found in the monument
proclamation, including one allowing logging within the monument in the name of “restoration”.
In subsequent months we developed with our allies a strategy to end commercial logging, not just in Sequoia,
but in all of the eleven Sierra Nevada national forests. In early fall our ally, the John Muir Project, filed a
“California spotted owl (CASPO)/fisher” lawsuit against the Forest Service for their failure to adopt a
management plan that will ensure the viability of the owl and the Pacific fisher in the Sierra. In November we
came to an agreement with the government and they halted logging activities throughout the Sierra until a
range-wide plan could be issued. Not so coincidently, the plan was issued soon thereafter, in January 2001.
Our attorneys are currently evaluating the plan to determine our next step.
Yosemite Valley
We are also involved in the fight to protect the Yosemite Valley and Wild and Scenic Merced River through our
support of the Friends of Yosemite Valley. Development and a flawed Management Plan for the Valley continue to threaten the beauty of this remarkable area. By challenging the Management Plan we hope to stop
the destructive prescriptions for the valley, including new road development, parking lots alongside the river,
diesel buses and implementation of high-priced lodging.
ForestKeeper
For many years we have wanted to create a new occupation, a forest keeper. Based on the water keeper
model, a forest keeper would be a non-governmental ombudsperson whose responsibility would be to
advocate for a forest or forest region. Dedicated to protecting and preserving both private and public forests,
the keeper will monitor forest plans and practices for compliance with state and federal law, identify cases
where laws are broken, advocate for proper compliance, and, when necessary, resort to litigation to enforce
compliance.
In 2000 we decided to start the first keeper program in the southern Sierra Nevada. The Sequoia
ForestKeeper will begin work in the second half of 2001. The Keeper will be an extremely dedicated, longtime advocate for Sequoia National Forest, Ara Marderosian. Within a few years, we envision a chain of forest
keepers running from Sequoia up through the Sierra and into the North Coast region.
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Fre sh Water Conser vation
Ca l i f orn ia has always lived on the edge of a water cr i s i s. We know that some ti me in the 21 st
centu ry our bu rgeon i ng popu lation will come face to face with an extended droug ht.
Our goal is to conserve our water in order to assure susta i nable suppl ies for people and the
env i ron ment. However, there are several problems that must first be overcome. Fi r st, althoug h
a forum for equ itable division of su rface water is in place, i. e., Ca l Fed (see sidebar below), there is
a lack of cons i sten cy in dema nd reduction and conserv ation eff orts by all user s. Second,
g rou nd w ater is unprotected and bei ng deple ted at a rate of 1.3 million acr e / feet per yea r. And
f i na l ly, water qua l ity is not adequately and cons i stent ly protected from pol l u ted urban and
ag r icu ltu ral ru noff.
Total Maximum Daily Loads
In 2000 our grantee, the Natural Resources Defense Council, in conjunction with other allies including the
Frank G. Wells UCLA Environmental Law Clinic, worked to strengthen the Environmental Protection Agency’s
TMDL rules (see sidebar on opposite page) and protect them from industry attack. Among their accomplishments were the following:
w The NRDC went to court and successfully fought back an industry initiative demanding that economic costs
be considered when setting TMDLs for pollutants.
w The NRDC commented extensively on new TMDL national regulations slated to take effect next year.
The new rules are a major step forward for the TMDL program.
w The UCLA Clinic took a major role in the development of regional TMDLs, including a trash TMDL for the Los
Angeles River. As a result we can expect to see the river substantially free of trash within 5 years and
completely free of trash within ten years!
All of the goals set out for this grant were achieved and now the TMDL regulations have become one of our
most valuable tools for assuring Californians and the environment clean water.
CalFed is a cooperative effort among the public and state and federal agencies with management and regulatory responsibility in the Bay-Delta system.
It was formed to address water management and environmental problems including ecosystem restoration, water quality, water use efficiency and levee
system integrity.
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Groundwater
Groundwater is the unseen factor in the water formula. We see the water in our reservoirs, lakes and rivers.
We see it in our rain gauges and we hear reports on the Sierra snow pack, but when was the last time you
heard about aquifer drawdown? Like surface water resources, the state’s aquifers belong to all Californians,
held in trust by the state to be used for public benefit, but not accruing to the benefit of a few at the expense
of the resource itself. Overdraft is theft, pure and simple!
As part of our grant to the NRDC and in order to develop a strategy to address this critical issue, they have
drafted two reports on California’s groundwater resources for release in 2001. The first report will cover
groundwater contamination issues; the second will address supply and use issues.
Environment Now’s first grant focused on a specific groundwater issue was made in 2000. Although the
grant is for work on the Hopi reservation in northeastern Arizona, the link with California and Los Angeles is
very strong. Our grant recipient, the Black Mesa Trust, is fighting the depletion of the mesa’s aquifer in an
effort to save the Hopi way of life. As the water is drawn down, the springs the Hopi depend upon for their
agriculture and their day-to-day sustenance are drying up. Without these springs the Hopi culture will die.
Why is the water being depleted? ...to keep the lights on in Los Angeles! The water is being pumped by
Peabody Western Coal Company and used to slurry the coal mined on Black Mesa hundreds of miles to
Mohave Power Plant on the Colorado River in Nevada. Mohave’s power is used throughout the Pacific
Southwest, including here in Los Angeles.
Any discussion of pollution must be couched in terms of Total Maximum Daily Loads or TMDLs. The EPA defines a TMDL as a calculation of the maximum amount of
a pollutant that a water body can receive and still meet water quality standards. It is also an allocation of that amount to the pollutant’s sources. A TMDL is the sum
of the allowable loads of a single pollutant from all contributing sources.
The goal of achieving sustainable water use will require many tools ranging from public education to litigation.
We began tackling this problem in 2000 at home with an effort to improve the Los Angeles County Land Use
Plan through the administrative process. Adequate urban planning can go far in reducing water use.
Environment Now would also like to see the planning process include accountability for impacts to source
watersheds. For example, how will the water needs for those planned 22,000 new homes in Newhall Ranch
impact the mountain watersheds providing the water? What salmon or steelhead run will be lost? What herd
of big horn sheep will die for lack of water during drought? The cumulative impact of our water use decisions
on the environment must be taken into account by the planning process.
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Air Quality Re storat ion
Air pol l u tion and Los Angeles — the two have been indel i bly pa i r ed in the minds of most
A mer ica ns and for good reason. Los Angeles is ack now ledged to have had the wor st smog in the
cou ntry th rough the latter half of the 20 th Centu ry. But Env i ron ment Now is out to cha nge th i s
w ith the help of some very ded icated, effecti ve orga n izations.
Photo: Rick M oo re
Alternative Fuel Advocacy
In 1997 Environment Now became the principal funding organization of the Dump Dirty Diesel Campaign. As
implied, the goal of this project is to rid the streets of Los Angeles, California, and, hopefully, the entire nation
of toxic diesel exhaust. Heavily composed of microscopic particulate matter, diesel exhaust penetrates
deeply into our lungs and stays to cause and exacerbate pulmonary diseases such as asthma.
Our partners in this work include the Los Angeles office of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and
the Coalition for Clean Air. Spearheading Dump Dirty Diesel they have employed advocacy, public education,
scientific research and litigation to attack this pernicious pollutant. In 2000 their efforts began paying off –
big time!
The project’s advocacy efforts with the Board of the South Coast Air Quality Management District were instrumental in getting six fleet rules passed which will require most new vehicles put into service by public fleets
to be powered by alternative fuel, e.g. natural gas. All the rules will be in effect by or beginning in 2002 unless
a lawsuit against them by the Engine Manufacturers Association succeeds. The NRDC will be representing a
coalition of environmental groups in the defense of these rules.
In 2001 the Management District will consider adopting a similar alternative fuel rule for school bus fleets in
the South Coast Air District. In order to better demonstrate need for a school bus rule, the NRDC conducted a
study to evaluate the air quality on actual school buses. Documented in No Breathing in the Aisles: Diesel
Exhaust Inside School Buses, they found that a child riding inside a diesel school bus may be exposed to up
to 46 times the cancer risk considered significant by the EPA. (The report can be found in its entirety on their
web site at www.nrdc.org)
Cost is the basis for the argument against alternative fuel school buses; a natural gas school bus can cost
$30,000 more than a diesel bus, however, some of this is made up over the life of the bus through cheaper
fuel and maintenance costs. Is this a convincing argument where our children’s health is a stake?
We don’t think so.
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Supermarket Lawsuits
On the litigation front, the NRDC, the Coalition for Clean Air and the California Attorney General achieved a
consent decree against the last of the four major Southern California supermarket chains in November 2000.
This suit capped two years of intensive Proposition 65 litigation against the supermarkets.
California’s Proposition 65, The Safe Drinking Water & Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, was a voter initiative passed to address citizen
concerns about exposure to substances, which cause cancer or reproductive toxicity. The law prohibits businesses from discharging such
chemicals into sources of drinking water, and requires that warnings be given to individuals exposed to them.
As a result of these supermarket settlements, the chains will purchase almost 200 clean, alternative fuel
heavy-duty trucks and yard utility vehicles over the next three years, build three natural gas refueling
stations, and install idling shut-off controls on all trucks. In addition over 20,000 Prop 65 diesel exhaust
warnings in both English and Spanish will be sent out to workers and residents living near supermarket
distribution centers.
The NRDC and the Coalition deserve the thanks of all Southern Californians for this great effort to clean
our air!
Energy Crisis
The state’s current energy crisis has prompted us to revisit a project we funded in 1999 to facilitate energy
efficiency and conservation in commercial office buildings. The work resulted in a guide for building owners,
especially of tenant-occupied office buildings, interested in improving energy efficiency and reducing
operating costs. We feel the guide, RoadMaps: Greening the Bottom Line, is such a valuable tool to reducing
energy consumption we have put an interactive version on the web. You can find the RoadMaps at
www.energyroadmaps.org.
Over the past decade the Grand Canyon Trust, with funding from Environment Now, has fought to reduce air
pollution from coal-fired power plants on the Colorado Plateau. Now this good work done in the 1990’s is at
risk. The energy crisis is prompting plans to expand at least two power plants on the Plateau. We are
concerned that the crisis will be used as an excuse to relax air quality standards for these expansions.
Environment Now and the Trust are committed to fight any such relaxation and will remain vigilant in the
effort to reduce pollution over this magnificent region.
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Abou t Env ironment Now...
Environment Now is a private operating foundation founded by Frank and Luanne Wells in 1989. Their early
adventures exploring California’s coasts and mountains helped shape the way they viewed our environment
and embedded a passionate desire to help protect it —ultimately with the creation of Environment Now.
Environment Now’s mission is to protect, preserve, and restore the health of California’s ecosystems by influencing public policy and promoting responsible resource management. Our operating strategy is to collaborate with other organizations on projects where we feel we can make a meaningful, measurable contribution.
BOARD
STAFF
Kevin Wells – President
Paul Heeschen – Secretary/Treasurer
Dan Emmett
Mary Nichols
Briant Wells
Luanne Wells
Terry Tamminen – Executive Director
Julie Barr – Coastal Restoration
Kris Haddad – Forest Preservation
Dave Myerson – Urban & Smart Growth
Gary Poe – Windows on Our Waters
Denise Washko – Coastal Restoration
Robert Wells – Air Quality Restoration
2000 GRANT RECIPIENTS
Listed below are our grantees for 2000.
(Please note that Environment Now does not accept unsolicited grant proposals.)
Urban & Smart Growth
Ballona Wetlands Land Trust
California Coastal Protection Network
California State Parks Foundation
Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy
Endangered Habitats League
Liberty Hill Foundation
Wetlands Action Network
Wishtoyo Foundation
Coastal Restoration
Orange County CoastKeeper
San Diego BayKeeper
Santa Barbara ChannelKeeper
Santa Monica BayKeeper
Sustainable Conservation
Whale Rescue Team
Forest Preservation
Environmental Protection Information Center
Friends of Yosemite Valley
John Muir Project
Living Forest Project
Natural Resources Defense Council
Sierra Club
Fresh Water Conservation
Black Mesa Trust
Natural Resources Defense Council
Air Quality Restoration
Coalition for Clean Air
Natural Resources Defense Council
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EN V I RONMENT NOW W E L L S FA M I LY A WA R D
In 1999 Environment Now began honoring members of the California environmental community for outstanding
dedication and achievement. The recipients receive a $10,000 discretionary grant to further their work.
The recipients to date are:
Urban & Smart Growth
Carlos Poros - Communities for a Better Environment, Los Angeles (1999)
Alan Ramo - Golden Gate University School of Law, San Francisco (2000)
Coastal Restoration
Susan Jordan - California Coastal Protection Network, Santa Barbara (1999)
Linda Krop - Environmental Defense Center, Santa Barbara (2000)
Forest Preservation
Martin Litton - Tule River Conservancy, Portola Valley (1999)
Kathy Bailey - Sierra Club, Philo (2000)
Air Quality Restoration
Gail Ruderman Feuer - National Resources Defense Council, Los Angeles (1999)
Tim Carmichael - Coalition for Clean Air, Los Angeles (2000)
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