Robin Cooley

Deputy Managing Attorney

Rocky Mountain Office

Robin Cooley, deputy managing attorney in Earthjustice's Rocky Mountain office, is smiling, looking directly at the camera.

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Robin Cooley

Deputy Managing Attorney Rocky Mountain Office

Perry Wheeler
Public Affairs and Communications Strategist
pwheeler@earthjustice.org

Robin Cooley is a deputy managing attorney at Earthjustice’s Rocky Mountain office. Robin previously served as an associate attorney and a senior attorney in the Rocky Mountain office. Robin works to protect communities and wild places in the Rocky Mountain region from the harmful impacts of energy development and to promote a clean energy future.

Prior to joining Earthjustice, Robin co-taught the Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Denver School of Law. Robin also worked as a staff attorney for the Western Environmental Law Center in Taos, NM and served as an honors attorney for the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Robin received her law degree from the University of Colorado Law School and her undergraduate degree in Environmental Systems Technology from Cornell University.

Expert Posts & Articles

Factory Butte in Utah
January 12, 2016

Court Says BLM Must Survey Utah’s Red Rock Country for Cultural Artifacts

After decades of foot dragging, the Bureau of Land Management must finally take necessary steps to protect Utah’s world-renowned archeological sites from off-road vehicles.
Drilling in the Uinta Basin near the town of Ouray.
November 13, 2014

Un-Fracking Believable: Smog in the Rural West

The people living in the Uinta Basin in eastern Utah are the unwitting participants in a massive scientific experiment whereby they're exposed to unhealthy levels of smog pollution.
Factory Butte in southern Utah.
November 13, 2013

A Victory for Utah’s Red Rock Country

Perry Wheeler
Public Affairs and Communications Strategist
pwheeler@earthjustice.org

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Quoted in the News

March 9, 2021

Colorado Public Radio

These Little Devices On Oil Fields Make A Lot Of Emissions. New Regulations Could Change That

“It's significant because pneumatics are such a large source of methane emissions from this industry. This is a step in the right direction, but there's definitely going to be more that needs to be done to meet those targets in the future.”

Latest Press Statements

Flaring at a gas drilling site
March 28, 2024

National Conservation and Environmental Groups Respond to BLM Methane Waste Rule

BLM rule take steps to reduce waste from routine venting and flaring of gas at well sites