2007
Marianne Dellinger (‘08) – United Nations (Germany)
Ms. Dellinger interned at the United Nations in Bonn, Germany, which is the office responsible for all work on the Kyoto Protocol.  She observed the bi-annual delegate meeting, and then wrote a paper on due process of law in the context of the Kyoto Protocol compliance mechanism.  She compared due process safeguards to those of other modern multi-lateral environmental agreements.  The purpose of this analysis was to identify possible areas for improvement of the current rules.  She also worked on various legal research projects for the Kyoto Protocol Compliance Committee.

Virginia Ryan (‘08) – Great Rivers Environmental Law Center
Ms. Ryan worked in St. Louis, Missouri, researching a variety of topics, including air quality problems associated with ethanol plants and concentrated animal feeding operations.

Monica Nicole Kerslake (‘08)  - Humane Society of the United States
Ms. Kerslake worked in Washington, D.C. on a wide variety of cases for HSUS, including a lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service for the illegal issuance of permits for stellar sea lion “research”, a lawsuit to shut down the last remaining horse slaughter plant in the U.S., a suit against a foie gras production facility for Clean Water Act Violations, and another suit against the NMFS for failure to protect critically endangered right whales.  She also helped research evidentiary issues for the Michael Vick dog fighting case.

Jolene Goodnight (‘08) – Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide
Ms. Goodnight worked on a variety of projects with lawyers from around the world at ELAW.  These included analyzing renewable energy laws worldwide, a petition to the World Bank regarding the activities of multinational corporations in Africa, a case dealing with environmental and human rights issues involving gold mining in Ghana, and researching toxic tort laws to advance this area of law in China.

Zach Welcher  – Payette Land Trust

2006
Morgan Dethman (’07) -  Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide
Ms. Dethman interned at the Eugene, Oregon office of the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide, a nonprofit organization that assists lawyers and scientists in 60 countries with resources to protect the environment through the law.  She worked with attorneys and advocates from around the world, researching case precedent, evaluating legal doctrines and theories, drafting Freedom of Information Act requests, and writing legal memorandums on a variety of issues ranging from oil spill litigation to medical monitoring claims. 

Rob Schwartz (’07) – Western Environmental Law Center – Taos, NM
Mr. Schwartz drafted a motion for WELC that ultimately granted various clients’ participation in settlement negotiations between the state of New Mexico and Los Alamos National Laboratory with regard to a contentious National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit that would have allowed the Lab to report an absence of PCBs on their property, despite their actual presence.  He also worked on coal bed methane issues.

Sam Gaugush (’08) – Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center
Mr. Gaugush drafted numerous memorandums outlining substantive and procedural requirements for timber harvest plans on private lands in California.  He reviewed recent scientific studies and developed language to be incorporated into future scoping comments. 

Juna Hickner (’08) – Center for Environmental Law and Policy
Ms. Hickner worked for the Center for Environmental Law and Policy, a non-profit based in Seattle with a mission to protect Washington’s water sources.  Ms. Hickner spent the summer reviewing and commenting on proposed agency regulations and city plans to ensure compliance with the Washington Water Code.  She worked on the Washington Department of Health’s “Water Use Efficiency” draft rules, and drafted FOIA requests for new water rights applications.

2004/5
Aaron Grieser (’06) – M.C. Mehta (India)
Mr. Grieser had a seven month externship with M.C. Mehta, an Indian Supreme Court lawyer who has been a keynote speaker at the PIELC.  His primary task was to help write M.C. Mehta’s forthcoming book In the Public Interest, which details 17 of his most important cases.  Mr. Grieser also assisted him on briefs and research for an ongoing Supreme Court case in an effort to force the National Capital Territory of New Delhi to enforce its master zoning ordinance.  This litigation resulted in an order by the Court for Delhi to demolish over 100,000 illegal buildings and encroachments on Delhi’s green belt.

Rachel Kastenberg (’06) – Racimos de Ungurahui and Associacion Civil Labor (Peru)
Ms. Kastenburg interviewed health promoters from indigenous Peruvian communities to gather evidence of illness related to 30 years of oil drilling in the region.  She assisted in created a detailed schematic of all Peruvian environmental and hydrocarbon legislation via meetings between Racimos and World Wildlife Fund.  She also assisted in assembling and translating documents for Labor, dealing with toxic mining waste and its impact on surrounding communities.€

Daniel Kruse (’06) – Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Project
Mr. Kruse worked on a White Paper about old-growth logging in the Southeast.  Additionally, he wrote Scoping Comments and Administrative Appeals for timber sales in Virginia’s George Washington National Forest.   He met directly with local agency officials about management plans and conducted on-site visits of proposed timber sale sites.

2004
Michael Gustafson (’05) – Western Environmental Law Center
Mr. Gustafson had the opportunity to work on cases in all stages of litigation.  He drafted multiple complaints against the Fish and Wildlife Service for failure to consider listing endangered species under the Endangered Species Act.  He also filed Freedom of Information Act requests, and reviewed documents produced in responses to Requests for Production.  He also drafted a reply to a motion for summary judgment involving a suit against a private individual attempting to gain unrestricted motorized access on private land located within the Kalmiopsis Wilderness Area.

Michael Ryan Casey (’05) – Foundation La Era Agricola (Venezuela)
Mr. Casey worked for a NGO on a project called Venezuela 2058, which will invite scientist, academics, attorneys, doctors, and others to offer perspective on where the country is heading in terms of sustainable development.  He worked with attorneys from various NGOs, explaining many aspects of U.S. environmental law, and international laws. 

Brandon Rushing (’05) – Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Center
Mr. Rushing worked on many aspects of timber sale challenges, from scoping, reviewing Environmental Assessments, and filing administrative appeals.  He also worked on Off Road Vehicle racing permit issues, and worked on a complaint alleging failure to list the Cerulean Warbler as a threatened species. 

2003
Rachel Bredfeldt (’03) – Oregon State Public Interest Research Group
Ms. Bredfeldt assisted with writing a report detailing the connection between water quality and the availability of recreation activities to tourism dollars spent in the state.  This report was published in The Oregonian.  She also began a comprehensive report of the water quality status of the Willamette River, to determine whether the Oregon DEQ’s new proposed water quality standards were sufficiently stringent to protect the public health and the ecology of the river. 

Jason Flanders (’05) – Environmental Protection Agency Region 4 (Atlanta)
Mr. Flanders completed 20 projects dealing with 20 different issues and 6 environmental statutes during his time at EPA.  Some of his work ended up in legal briefs and negotiations.  He worked mainly on civil administrative actions and a few criminal cases.

2002
Jason Klein (’03) – Land and Water Fund of the Rockies
Mr. Klein worked on coal bed methane issues, namely working to convince the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to better analysis sites prior to issuing drilling permits on National Forests in Colorado.  His work culminated in a letter to the regional Forest Supervisor outlining the legal position of the environmental organizations.  He also researched ESA issues involving the goshawk, a bird of prey that would be adversely impacted by a Wyoming timber sale.

Justin Massey (’03) – Earthjustice
Mr. Massey worked in the Juneau office of Earthjustice, drafting multiple memorandums to assist his supervising attorney at Earthjustice.  One issue involved demonstrating that the National Marine Fisheries Service could not use FOIA exemption 4 to prevent disclosure of consolidated by-catch date for the North Pacific fishery.  Other issues involved NEPA requirements for fishery management and natural gas exploration in 500,000 acres of prime waterfowl habitat, and detailing administrative strategies available to force the Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game to issue an emergency order closing bottom trawling in State waters.

Jonathan Manton – Southern Environmental Law Center
Mr. Manton’s work at SELC focused on challenging the Forest Service’s prescribed burn program in the Cherokee National Forest, drafting a complaint for a suit challenging the Bark Camp Timber sale, and orchestrating a meeting with Congressional Staff to promote clean energy technology.

2001
Jeff Adams (’02) – Western Environmental Law Center
Mr. Adams worked on timber, Clean Water Act enforcement involving tribal trust duty issues and concentrated animal feeding operations, and mining reclamation issues during his time at WELC.  He reviewed Records of Decision for timber sales for compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act and the Northwest Forest Plan, and drafted numerous legal documents.

Emily Shack (’02) – Western Environmental Law Center
Ms. Shack worked on a Wild and Scenic Act case during her summer at WELC, which involved researching legislative history to ascertain the true meaning of specific terms such as “carrying capacity”.  She also worked to a petition to designate critical habitat for the woodland caribou in Washington and Idaho, and a petition to designate critical habitat for the lynx.

2001
Rachel Warner (’03)  - Oregon Natural Resources Council
Ms. Warner worked on the Westside Forests’ Program, contributing to the monitoring and litigation efforts directed at halting ecologically harmful logging activities throughout the forests of western Oregon.  She reviewed Environmental Assessments of timber sales and then contributed to federal timber sale appeals. 

2000
Heather Merfeld (’01) – Western Environmental Law Center
Among various projects completed for WELC, Ms. Merfeld wrote a draft memorandum in support of a motion for summary judgment for the Pegasus case.  This work involved reviewing treaties held between the US government and tribes, researching federal trust responsibilities owed to tribes, review of agency environmental impact statements, and consultation with hydrologists and geologists. 

1999
Alex Roth (’01) – Oregon Natural Resources Council/Western Environmental Law Center
At ONRC, Mr. Roth wrote a legal brief on their behalf in a dispute before the Interior Board of Land Appeals in an attempt to postpone logging by the Bureau of Land Management, which sought to log without surveying for sensitive species.   Although the appeal was ultimately denied, he gained extensive knowledge of forestry issues while working with organizations to create an exhaustive citizen’s guide to federal timber appeals. 

Derek Scheer (’01) – Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission
The GLIFWC manages hunting and gathering rights of 11 tribes in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota, which retained through the 1837 Treaty with the U.S.   Mr. Scheer worked with the Mole Lake Ojibwa regarding a proposed sulfide mine that would have had potentially contaminated the reservation’s Rice Lake with runoff. He dealt with the Army Corps of Engineers regarding their Trust duties and researched mining regulations.   He also worked to analyze and summarize bills that proposed dedication of monies from Offshore Oil Drilling Leases.

1998
Brendan Kane (’99) – Earth Justice Legal Defense Fund
Mr. Kane worked with staff attorneys on issues ranging from NFMA and NEPA claims, international treat law, the Clean Water Act, and land use appeals.  He provided support research projects and memorandum, and helped a staff attorney prepare for oral argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.