DUNLAP & BROWDER, INC.
Strategic services to business, government and the public interest
Dunlap and Browder provide significant reduced rate and pro bono services to environmental, community, Native American and other public interest groups. The following examples include current and previous work by Louise Dunlap and Joe Browder for public interest and government clients, and pro bono activity in behalf of some government organizations and public interest and Native American projects.
Examples of projects by Louise Dunlap and Joe Browder for public interest organizations, governments and international organizations
For public interest organizations, US state governments
· for a US national environmental organization (with a coalition of real estate and business interests): reduce electricity and natural gas use and greenhouse gas emissions through federal tax incentives for more energy efficient buildings
· for a US Native American rights organization: secure White House, Interior Department, environmental support for restoration and return of 700,000 acres of former reservation lands to a Native American tribe in the Pacific Northwest
· for California Energy Commission: advice, analysis regarding federal policy affecting California energy transportation issues
· for a coalition of western ranchers and Native American communities, midwest farmers, Appalachian community leaders: lead successful seven-year campaign to enact first federal legislation requiring the US coal industry to safeguard sensitive lands and waters and reclaim mined lands
· for Hopi leaders' Black Mesa Trust: analysis and representation regarding water, energy and economic development issues important to the Hopi people
· for California Air Resources Board: analysis and advice about fuels/automotive provisions of the 1990 Clean Air Act
· for western US state governments: analyze environmental issues related to proposed Asian export of western US coal
· for community groups in all US coal producing states: legislation extending a fee on current coal production to help pay the cost and reinforce the federal Abandoned Mine Lands program to protect communities and their water supplies from pollution and other damage caused by thousands of abandoned coal mines
· for all major US environmental organizations: organize and lead campaigns to establish Biscayne National Park, Big Cypress National Preserve; serve as initial (1968) coordinator of Everglades Coalition; in 1994-95 serve Everglades Coalition again as National Chair during development of Everglades water/biointegrity restoration plan
· for a coalition of community groups: negotiate with landowner, the Governor of Maryland and local officials to secure public ownership and protection of important Chesapeake Bay wetlands
For US government and international organizations
· for Export-Import Bank of the United States: help develop first US Export-Import Bank environmental program
· for western hemisphere water resource agencies: help establish InterAmerican Water Resources Network
· for United Nations Environment Programme: management and goals analysis of US United Nations Environment Programme support organization
· for United States Department of State: participate in seminars for US Consular officials assigned to environmental, natural resources issues