Michael Lozeau

From 1999 through the end of 2004, Mike was a staff attorney with the Earthjustice Environmental Law Clinic at Stanford and a Lecturer at Stanford Law School. From 1994 to 1999, Mike served as the Executive Director of Waterkeepers Northern California and served as the San Francisco Baykeeper. Mike was a founding Board member of the Waterkeeper Alliance from 1997-2001 and served as the Alliances Vice-President. Beginning in 1991, Mike maintained a solo practice in San Francisco, focusing on citizen enforcement cases and served as San Francisco Baykeepers legal counsel. His legal career began as an Associate Attorney with Earthjustice (then Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund) in their San Francisco office. Mike has a B. A. in Zoology from the University of New Hampshire. Mike has published a number of articles on Clean Water Act enforcement and implementation and Tribal authority under the Act. Some of Mikes more notable accomplishments include: serving as lead counsel in precedent-setting litigation to enforce the Department of Water Resources duties under the California Endangered Species Act to protect listed fish in operating the States massive Central Valley Projects Delta pumps. representing the Committee To Save the Mokelumne in agency proceedings and state court that led to the clean-up of the New Penn mine by EBMUD and the Central Valley Regional Board; serving as lead counsel on a precedent-setting federal Clean Water Act case against the Pacific Lumber Company for discharging pollutants from its logging operations without a permit; while serving as the Executive Director of Bay Keeper, developing and implementing a successful strategy to regulate water pollution from tens of thousands of Central Valley farms, including drafting legislation that terminated long-standing exemptions from California water quality law and advocacy for an effective regulatory program; numerous actions enforcing the CWAs permitting and stormwater pollution requirements; representing several tribes and environmental organizations in federal court to help defeat a proposed low-level radioactive radioactive waste dump in Ward Valley, California. Some interesting links: Court Ruling Underscores Need For New Delta Strategy Bay Area Top 25 Lawyer, 2003 Federal Court Reins In Logging Pollution Regulating Agricultures Water Pollution U. S. Senate Testimony about TMDLs Northern Goshawk Protected