ELAW News

Posted December 4th, 2007 by Anonymous

ELAW Impact [ archive ]

Important victories for the environment won by E-LAW advocates worldwide.

  • Winning Clean Air for Kenya
    11/14/2007 - 00:00

    For the first time, residents of Webuye, Kenya have scientific proof that they are being forced to breathe contaminated air. The Resources Conflict Institute will use this evidence to call for corporate accountability and compensation for the pollution victims.

  • Winning Clean Water for Peru`s Achuar
    11/27/2006 - 00:00

    The Achuar of the Northern Amazon rainforests lived relatively undisturbed for thousands of years. Starting in the early 1970s, multinational oil companies began drilling for oil and dumping contaminated by-products into rivers. ELAW helped stop the poll

  • Protecting Russian Citizens from Toxic Pollution
    12/01/2005 - 00:00

    E-LAW U.S. helped win a unanimous landmark
    ruling this year from the European Court of
    Human Rights that could improve the lives of
    thousands in Russia who suffer from pollution-related illnesses, and fundamentally shift thinking in Europe on the conne

  • Chile Protects Endangered Hardwood
    12/01/2005 - 00:00

    ELAW advocate Miguel Fredes has scored a
    major victory against a multi-million dollar
    illegal logging racket that was devastating
    ancient forests in southern Chile.

  • Protecting Natural Resources in Liberia
    11/12/2004 - 00:00

    Courageous lawyers at Green Advocates in Liberia drew support from E-LAW U.S. to draft and pass Liberia`s first framework environmental law.

E-Bulletin [ archive ]

ELAW U.S. E-Bulletins report breaking news on ELAW events and environmental victories around the globe.

  • ELAW at Hazel Wolf Film Festival, May 3
    04/17/2008 - 08:44

    ELAW Executive Director Bern Johnson joins Diana McCaulay, CEO and founder of the Jamaica Environment Trust, for a panel discussion at the Hazel Wolf Film Festival in Seattle.

  • ELAW partner released from prison
    04/08/2008 - 07:01

    Netsanet Demissie was released from an Ethiopian prison on March 28, after nearly two and a half years in jail.

  • Protecting Patagonia
    02/21/2008 - 09:14

    KLCC-FM News Director Tripp Sommer interviews ELAW staff attorney Jennifer Gleason and Chilean lawyer Andres Pirazzoli about promoting renewable energy in Chile, and protecting Patagonia.

  • Defending the Cacataibo
    02/12/2008 - 01:36

    A Canadian company prospecting for oil and gas is laying down lines of explosives for "seismic testing" in a remote area of the central Peruvian Amazon. ELAW partners are working to protect indigenous peoples from this ill-advised plan.

  • ELAW Exposes Cut and Paste EIA
    01/25/2008 - 02:08

    Staff Scientist Mark Chernaik reveals that a multinational mining company`s environmental impact assessment (EIA) for a proposed bauxite mine in India is cut and pasted from an EIA for a mining project in Russia!

ELAW Press [ archive ]

E-LAW U.S. activities reported in the global press.