ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT
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Mission Statement
The Environmental Integrity Project is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting public health and our natural resources by holding polluters and government agencies accountable under the law, advocating for tough but fair environmental standards, and empowering communities fighting for clean air and clean water. Your donations help us fight illegal pollution, expose political intimidation of enforcement staff, and encourage federal and state agencies to take necessary enforcement actions to protect our environment and all of us who share it.
About This Cause
The Environmental Integrity Project is a 501 (c)(3) nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog organization that advocates for effective enforcement of environmental laws. Comprised of former EPA enforcement attorneys, public interest lawyers, analysts, investigators, and community organizers, EIP has three goals: 1. To illustrate through objective facts and figures how the failure to enforce or implement environmental laws increases pollution and harms public health; 2. To hold federal and state agencies, as well as individual corporations, accountable for failing to enforce or comply with environmental laws; and 3. To help local communities obtain the protections of environmental laws. We act as a watchdog because we have to. State and federal agencies charged with protecting the environment often are squeezed by limited resources and political interference from well-funded lobbyists hired by the industries they are required to regulate. We help level the playing field by giving communities the legal and technical resources they need to claim their rights under environmental laws. Political influence should play no role when the government decides whether to enforce laws which keep cancer-causing benzene out of the lungs of children, for example, or deadly coal soot particles out of the bloodstreams of the elderly. We do this by advocating for fair enforcement of environmental laws and regulations; writing and distributing reports and data; taking legal actions against big polluters and government agencies, when necessary; and by teaching communities how to participate in the public process regarding important state and federal environmental decisions. We ENFORCE EXISTING ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS: Congress gives ordinary citizens the power to enforce environmental rules when bureaucracies stumble or polluters skirt the law. We provide legal and technical know-how to help average people exercise their power to challenge big agencies and well-connected polluters. Our enforcement actions get real results and improve public health. We INVESTIGATE, INFORM, and IMPROVE. Our team extracts, analyzes, and posts data from dense government files to make it available (and understandable) to the public. We are proud of our efforts to ensure the data on which environmental rules depend is accurate and easily available to citizens, with straightforward explanations. We support COMMUNITY-LED ACTION TO SAFEGUARD PUBLIC HEALTH & THE ENVIRONMENT We are inspired by local activists willing to stand up, against the odds, to defend the environment and protect their communities. These local heroes show what a few individuals can do for the environment by claiming their rights granted under the law. EIP works shoulder to shoulder with these community leaders to provide the technical expertise they need to bring a fair fight. INTEGRITY is our middle name. We understand that details are everything, and EIP has a hard-earned reputation for careful attention to both law and fact. We always look for environmental improvements that make economic sense in the long run. Our backgrounds in law, engineering, public health, government, economics, geology, and biology help us to get a full picture. In fact, our work has been cited in Congressional hearings and debates, in reports by the U.S. General Accountability Office, and in frequent news articles.