Clients hire Just Change Law Offices to achieve real-world, tangible results. Paula Maccabee has represented and worked in partnership with clients to obtain outcomes that protect clients' and community interests.

• Represented citizens on a proposed route for the CapX2020 Brookings Project 345 kV Power Line. The Administrative Law Judge recommended the clients' proposed alternative route to markedly reduce impacts on human settlement and the environment. ALJ Recommendation - Brookings
• Represented the Gardens of Eagan organic farm in routing proceedings and prevented a crude oil pipeline proposed by the Minnesota Pipeline Company from crossing the farm. Secured agricultural impact mitigation provisions to provide additional protection to any organic farm potentially impacted by the pipeline.
  • Agricultural Impact Mitigation Plan for Organic Farms The Appendix to the Agricultural Impact Mitigation Plan developed to specifically protect organic farms is attached. AIMP:Organic Farms.pdf
• Provided legal and consulting services to owners of commercial and office real estate in St. Paul's urban core to remediate pollution, develop plans and achieve approvals and funding assistance for redevelopment projects.

Paula Maccabee speaking
at a Sierra Club rally
• Lobbied for Environmental Justice Advocates of Minnesota with a coalition of environmental groups to enact legislation reducing mercury emissions from Minnesota's larges coal plant by 90 percent.
• Represented the Sierra Club and the City of Minneapolis in administrative proceedings at the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, resulting in approval of a landmark plan to convert two coal plants to natural gas and install state-of-the art pollution controls on a third coal plant.
• Successfully represented Our Children Our Future in lobbying for laws to require culturally-appropriate services and preference for care by relatives to reduce family violence and racial disparities in foster care
• Successfully lobbied at the State Legislature and advocated at the municipal level for environmental organizations to enact a Minneapolis City ordinance to limit gas station emissions, Minneapolis City laws to reduce mercury and to launch a new Minnesota program to recycle mercury-containing switches.
• Helped non-profit groups, private developers and the City of Minneapolis raise over $6 million in grants for development of supportive housing, lead hazard reduction, and remediation of pollution.
• Advocated for the City of Minneapolis in environmental review and municipal consent proceedings for the I-35W highway project to secure a mass transit busway and environmental improvements.
• Litigated in administrative hearings at the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to ensure that a certificate of need for a high voltage power line was contingent on conditions requiring development of wind energy.
• Developed and implemented a multi-year statewide campaign with the Sierra Club to reduce toxic air pollution.