Serving as President of Earthjustice Has Been the Greatest Honor of My Life

Trip Van Noppen announces his departure as president of Earthjustice after over a decade, handing leadership to Abigail Dillen on October 1. He highlights the organization's growth to over 120 litigators, its legal victories against the Trump administration regarding pesticides and smog standards, and its expansion into the Midwest via a new Chicago office and an expanded international program.

• Trip Van Noppen is stepping down as president of Earthjustice after more than ten years, with Abigail Dillen, the current vice president of litigation for climate and energy, appointed as the next president effective October 1.
• Earthjustice has expanded its organizational capacity to over 120 litigators to defend environmental protections and has achieved legal victories against the Trump administration, including bans on the pesticide chlorpyrifos, the rejection of delays for chemical-disaster prevention rules, and the enforcement of smog standards.
• The organization is expanding its geographic and strategic reach by opening a new office in Chicago to serve the Midwest, expanding its international program, and increasing work in key states to drive the clean energy transition.
• Fern Shepard, the president of Rachel’s Network and a former Earthjustice staff attorney, has been elected as the chair of the Earthjustice board of trustees.

APA

Van Noppen, T. (2018). Serving as President of Earthjustice Has Been the Greatest Honor of My Life. Earthjustice. https://earthjustice.org/article/passing-the-torch

Chicago

Van Noppen, Trip. Serving as President of Earthjustice Has Been the Greatest Honor of My Life. Earthjustice, 2018. https://earthjustice.org/article/passing-the-torch.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{vannoppen2018serving, author = {Van Noppen, Trip}, title = {{Serving as President of Earthjustice Has Been the Greatest Honor of My Life}}, publisher = {Earthjustice}, year = {2018}, month = sep, url = {https://earthjustice.org/article/passing-the-torch}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }