ELAW News
ELAW Impact [ archive ]
Important victories for the environment won by E-LAW advocates worldwide.
- 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.
- 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
- 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 - 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. - 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 02/29/2008 - 04:56
ELAW`s Bern Johnson is interviewed on KPFK 90.7 FM (Los Angeles) about using courts to hold countries accountable for climate change.
- 02/21/2008 - 03:53
KLCC News Director Tripp Sommer talks with ELAW staff attorney Jennifer Gleason and Chilean lawyer Andres Pirazolli about promoting renewable energy in Chile and protecting Patagonia.
- 08/29/2007 - 23:00
Read a Q&A with Hongthong Sirivath in the Eugene Weekly.
- 08/02/2007 - 23:00
ELAW partner Augustine Niber is joined by ELAW Communications Director Maggie Keenan on KWVA-FM’s "InFormed Talk" radio program.
- 04/05/2007 - 23:00