The CLF Team

Tricia K. Jedele is Vice President and Director of CLF Rhode Island. Tricia is a graduate of Providence College. She received her J.D. from Creighton University. She joins CLF after serving 10 years as a Special Assistant Attorney General and the State’s Environmental Advocate with the Rhode Island Office of the Attorney General. During her tenure at the Attorney General’s office, Tricia brought the first of its kind lawsuit against the United States Navy, recovering 1.4 million dollars in natural resource damages that resulted from Navy operations at Quonset Point. She was the State’s lead attorney in the Brayton Point Station litigation which led to the settlement and closed-cycle cooling at the power plant. Among other cases, she represented RI in the Clean Air Act case filed against American Electric Power Company, which resulted in the single largest environmental settlement in U.S. history and the installation of 4 billion dollars worth of pollution controls at midwestern power plants. She was the lead author of the briefs filed by RI and five other states before the United States Supreme Court in the Clean Water Act case, Riverkeeper v. EPA. Most recently, she represented Rhode Island’s environmental agency, working closely with CLF on defending the state’s adoption of California clean car standards.