Author Description
Kristen Boyles is a staff attorney in Earthjustice’s Northwest office. For over 20 years, her work has focused on public lands and wildlife issues including: Pacific Northwest forestry; Columbia and Klamath River salmon protection; protection and recovery of threatened and endangered species; impacts of pesticides on people and the environment; and the national Roadless Rule. Kristen currently coordinates Earthjustice’s work to stop crude-by-rail and other fossil fuel infrastructure expansion. Kristen and her Northwest Earthjustice colleagues represent: the Quinault Indian Nation in efforts to stop crude-by-rail in Grays Harbor; conservation and community groups in the Shell Puget Sound Refinery and Tesoro-Savage proceedings; conservation groups in challenges to coal export facilities at Cherry Point and Port of Longview, Washington and defense of permit denial for the coal terminal at Port of Morrow, Oregon; conservation groups in the Clean Air Act challenge to Global Partners’ facility; and conservation groups challenging the methanol terminal proposed in Kalama, Washington. She also represented four US Coast Salish Tribal Nations in regulatory proceedings in Canada over the proposed Kinder Morgan crude oil pipeline. Her colleagues in Seattle currently represent the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in its ongoing effort to halt the Dakota Access Pipeline. Kristen and Earthjustice are members of the executive committees for the Power Past Coal and Stand Up to Oil coalitions.
