Annual Benefit returns on August 9 to the St. Regis Aspen Resort
June 5, 2023 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Grant Stevens, Communications Director, grant@wildernessworkshop.org; 319-427-0260 (Cell)
CARBONDALE, CO – Wilderness Workshop is pleased to announce that Abigail Dillen, President of Earthjustice, will be the featured speaker at Wild Feast on Wednesday, August 9 at the St. Regis Aspen Resort. Wild Feast, an annual benefit, is an evening celebrating conservation, climate action, public lands, and free-flowing rivers. It raises critical funds that ensure WW can continue to protect western Colorado’s public lands and waters, build an equitable environmental movement, and help stop the climate crisis.
“Having Abigail speak at Wild Feast is a true honor. Wilderness Workshop has a long history working with Earthjustice and I know attendees will walk away with a reinvigorated desire to protect Western Colorado’s public lands. Hearing a national perspective on some of our local challenges – such as efforts to protect intact biodiversity and free-flowing rivers – is certain to be eye-opening and inspiring to all.” – Will Roush, Wilderness Workshop Executive Director
Earthjustice is “…the premier nonprofit public interest environmental law organization. We wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people’s health, to preserve magnificent places and wildlife, to advance clean energy, and to combat climate change.” Abigail Dillen is the President of Earthjustice, leading the organization’s staff, board, and supporters to advance their mission of using the courts to protect our environment and people’s health.
Before stepping into her current role, Abigail served as the Vice President of Litigation for Climate & Energy, heading the organization’s litigation and legal advocacy to achieve the essential shift from fossil fuels to 100% clean energy. Prior to that, she was managing attorney of Earthjustice’s Coal Program, which has played a central role in forcing the overdue retirement of coal-fired power plants around the country.
Abigail has litigated precedent-setting cases that have held polluters accountable and cleared the way for clean energy nationally. These wins include: requiring the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate first-ever standards to govern disposal of coal ash and limit the wastewater discharge of toxic pollutants from coal-fired power plants; blocking a $2 billion transmission project to transport dirty coal energy from the Ohio Valley to East Coast cities; blocking permits for new coal-fired power plants; and cutting off federal funding of new coal plants.
Abigail joined Earthjustice in 2000, working first out of the Northern Rockies Office in Bozeman, Montana, where she worked to protect public lands and the many imperiled species that depend on them, including wolves, grizzly bears, and native trout. Abigail received her B.A. from Yale University and her law degree from the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated Order of the Coif.
Earthjustice and its attorneys have represented and partnered with Wilderness Workshop on the organization’s critical work to protect public lands from oil and gas development in iconic landscapes like the Thompson Divide, Roan Plateau and Colorado’s Roadless areas. Earthjustice currently represents Wilderness Workshop in litigation related to BLM’s Leasing Pause and BLM’s Methane Waste Reduction Rule.
Tables and tickets for Wild Feast are currently available. If you have any questions or want to purchase tickets, please email WW Philanthropy Director Emily Kay, Emily@wildernessworkshop.org or visit wildernessworkshop.org/wildfeast.
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Wilderness Workshop is a nonprofit advocacy organization based in Carbondale, CO, whose mission is to protect the wilderness, water, and wildlife of Western Colorado’s public lands. Learn more at WildernessWorkshop.org
