Current ELAW Press

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ELAW Press Cigarettes, plastic bags, food containers, caps, plastic bottles, and more litter the beaches in Belize, Guatemala and Honduras. Inadequate management of waste at the local level poses a regional challenge, according to a new report by the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW).

Residents near India's largest copper smelter in Tamil Nadu are complaining of breathing problems and burning throat pain following a release of gas on March 23rd, 2013. Tamil Nadu's Pollution Control Board closed Sterlite Industries, a unit of London-based Vedanta Resources, but Sterlite filed an appeal. The National Green Tribunal has since ordered that the polluting facility remain closed except for a temporary restart of operations for the purpose of inspecting the plant.

ELAW partner Leo Saldhana at the Environment Support Group is pleased to announce that plans to clear valuable grasslands and forests to make way for nuclear, defense, space, and other high tech projects are on hold.

The Eugene Weekly's Camilla Mortensen interviews ELAW partners Thuli Brilliance Makama of Swaziland and Elifuraha Laltaika of Tanzania.

ELAW partner Dana Tabachnik speaks with KLCC Radio about her work at the Israel Union for Environmental Defense.

Profiles of grassroots advocates from around the world who traveled to Eugene for the 2013 ELAW Annual Meeting followed by the 31st Annual Public Interest Environmental law Conference.

ELAW partner Ipat Luna joins members of the newly-formed People's Network for the Integrity of Coastal Habitats and Ecosystems to call for the restoration, instead of reclamation, of the coastal waters of Manila Bay

The Wood River Land Trust of Hailey, Idaho has given its most prestigious award, the Founders’ Award, to ELAW Staff Attorney Liz Mitchell.

ELAW is named 2013 beneficiary of the 19th Annual Dance for a Reason performance.