Richard Roos-Collins is
Principal in
the WATER AND
POWER LAW GROUP
PC. He
specializes in
settlements in
complex cases
involving
multiple
parties,
interests, and
laws. He has
drafted and
negotiated more
than 50 such
settlements.
These include:
the Klamath
Basin
Restoration and
Hydropower
Agreements, the
Mono Lake Cases,
and the Land
Conservation
Commitment
Stipulation for
the bankruptcy
reorganization
of Pacific Gas
and Electric
Company.
Richard is
Adjunct
Professor at the
University of
San Francisco
Law School (2010
- ). He is
General Counsel
to
the Hydropower
Reform
Coalition (Washington,
D.C.), which
represents more
than 2 million
people
interested in
balancing power
and
environmental
benefits. He is
a member of the
Research
Advisory Board,
Center for Law,
Energy &
Environment, UC
Berkeley Law
(2016 - ), and
the Council of
Legal Advisors,
Bren School of
Environmental
Science and
Management, UC
Santa Barbara
(2016 - ). He
was Chairman of
the Board of
Directors (2001
- 2016) for
the Low Impact
Hydropower
Institute (Portland,
ME), the
nation’s only
program to
certify the
environmental
performance of
such power
assets.
He received the American Bar Association’s Award for Excellence in Environmental and Resources Stewardship (2007), the Mono Lake Committee’s Defender of the Trust Award (2009), and the American Fisheries Society’s Carl B. Sullivan Fishery Conservation Award (2010).
Richard was
Deputy Attorney
General,
California
Department of
Justice and
Attorney-Advisor,
U.S,
Environmental
Protection
Agency. He
is a graduate of
Harvard Law
School (J.D.,
honors, 1986)
and Princeton
University
(B.A., high
honors).
More
extensive Bio
by Water and
Power Law Group
PC:
https://www.waterpowerlaw.com/sites/default/files/richard_roos-collins.pdf.
Participated in
rulemaking
negotiations
that resulted in
Federal Energy
Regulatory
Commission’s
Integrated
Licensing
Process, 18
C.F.R. Part 5.
Served as trial
counsel for
California Trout
in the Mono Lake
Cases.
Attorney-Adviser,
Office of
General Counsel,
U.S.
Environmental
Protection
Agency. Founding
Director,
Hydropower
Reform
Coalition,
California
Hydropower
Reform
Coalition,
Alaska Public
Waters
Coalition.
Helped found and
serve as General
Counsel for
coalition of
conservation and
fishing groups
representing
nearly 2 million
people in
hydropower
proceedings
across the U.S.,
Chairman, Board
of Directors,
Friends of the
River.
Co-Chairman,
Agricultural
Water Management
Council. Member,
Steering
Committee, Bay
Delta
Conservation
Plan. Member,
Federal Advisory
Committee,
Hydropower
Regulation.
Following
appointment,
advised Federal
Energy
Regulatory
Commission, U.S.
Departments of
Agriculture,
Commerce, Energy
and Interior, on
practices to
improve economic
and
environmental
benefits of
regulation of
hydropower
projects.
Member, Federal
Water Rights
Task Force.
Member,
Governor's
Advisory
Committee on
Central Valley
Project Transfer
https://islandpress.org/author/richard-roos-collins Co-author of RIVERS AT RISK with American Rivers.
Richard Roos-Collins was Deputy Attorney General in environmental law for the state of California. Previous to that position, he was a staff attorney with the Office of General Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. Mr. Roos-Collins was formerly publicist and litigation coordinator for Friends of the River, a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving California's wild rivers. He is a graduate of Princeton and of Harvard Law School.
Understanding the Bay Delta Conservation Plan https://www.lwvlamv.org/league-news/understanding-the-bay-delta-conservation-plan/ Richard Roos-Collins, along with Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council / NRDC
10/26/09
Sustainable NW paid NRI/National Heritage Institute $112,487
Richard Roos Collins, the legal services director for Natural
Heritage Institute, which is a "non-profit law and science for
global resource solutions" organization:
www.n-h-i.org, is a
participant in both the KBRA and Hydro meetings, and Roos-Collins
is the main
author of the KBRA
and KHSA. NHI represents "American
Rivers and California Trout in an ongoing effort to
decommission PacifiCorp’s Klamath River Project, so as to
restore free passage from the Pacific Ocean more than 250
miles upstream to Upper Klamath Lake." Go
HERE
for KBC's NHI webpage and clients.
https://n-h-i.org/about-nhi/partners-collaborators-funders/
Here for NHI
Partners,
Collaborators
and Funders:
a few of the
several dozen
include Soros
Foundation,
Sierra Club,
MBK Engineers,
National Fish
and Wildlife
Foundation, The
Nature
Conservancy,
Sierra Club,
PCFFA /
Pacific Coast
Federation of
Fishermen’s
Associations,
National Audubon
Society, Friends
of the River,
Environmental
Defense,
California
Trout, American
Rivers, EPA, DOI,
BOR, Countries:
Africa,
Cambodia, China,
Ghana, Mexico,
Vietnam (to name
just a few.
Richard Roos
Collins, the
legal services
director for
Natural Heritage
Institute