Staff - National Environmental Law Center

Charles Caldart (Litigation Director). Mr. Caldart completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Washington in 1970, and received his JD from the University of Washington School of Law in 1974. He earned an M.P.H. from the Harvard University School of Public Health in 1982. Mr. Caldart worked at the firm of Miles, Way & Caldart in Olympia, Washington from 1974 to 1983, becoming a partner in 1979, and specializing in civil litigation. He began working as MASSPIRG's Litigation Attorney in 1985, bringing environmental, public health, and constitutional law cases. Mr. Caldart is also on the teaching faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has taught environmental law courses at MIT since 1983. Mr. Caldart helped found the National Environmental Law Center in 1990.

Josh Kratka (Senior Attorney). Mr. Kratka, 1979 graduate of Harvard University, received his JD from Northeastern University School of Law in 1984. He served as a Law Clerk for the Superior Court of Massachusetts until 1986, when he became MASSPIRG's Staff Attorney. At MASSPIRG, he advocated for environmental and consumer protection laws. Mr. Kratka joined NELC's litigation staff in 1994.

Joe Mann (Staff Attorney). Mr. Mann graduated from Northwestern University in 1991. He earned his JD degree from New York University School of Law in 1999, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the NYU Environmental Law Journal. He spent a year as the Law Clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Irma E. Gonzalez in the Southern District of California before joining NELC in 2000.

Mary Rock (Paralegal). Mary graduated from the University of Michigan in 2011 with a BA in English and a minor in the Program in the Environment. Before joining the NELC staff in the summer of 2011, Mary interned with the Environmental and Energy Study Institute in Washington, DC and facilitated writing workshops in Michigan.