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Winning Clean Air for Kenya
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
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
Achuar march for clean water (PHOTO: FECONACO, Racimos de Ungurahui)
For thousands of years, the Achuar indigenous people of the Northern Amazon rainforests in present-day Peru lived relatively undisturbed.
Chile Protects Endangered Hardwood
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.
Remains of an ancient alerce tree. Photo: Carlos Poblete
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 Russian Citizens from Toxic Pollution
ELAW 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
Steelworks in Cherepovets, Russia. Photo: www.cultinfo.ru
ELAW 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.
Protecting Natural Resources in Liberia
Courageous lawyers at Green Advocates in Liberia drew support from ELAW U.S. to draft and pass Liberia`s first framework environmental law.
Lawyers at Green Advocates, Monrovia, Liberia
The war-torn nation of Liberia is richly endowed with tropical rainforests, iron ore, diamonds, and gold. The abusive exploitation of these natural resources has helped fuel Liberia`s continuing civil conflict.
Managing Hospital Waste in Jamaica
ELAW U.S. scientists worked with the Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) to halt a proposed medical waste incinerator that would have released dioxins and heavy metals into surrounding communities.
Diana McCaulay, JET`s director, was working with citizens concerned about plans for a proposed medical waste incinerator at the University Hospital of the West Indies, in Kingston.
The incinerator would have released dioxins and heavy metals into surrounding communities.
Diana called on ELAW U.S. for help.
Access to Information in Brazil
To participate in decisions about the environment, citizens need information. Citizens need to know about projects that are proposed for their communities, so they can speak up before local ecosystems are destroyed, and air and waterways are polluted.
Rachel Biderman, attorney at Instituto Pro-Sustentabilidade, Brazil
To participate in decisions about the environment, citizens need information. Citizens need to know about projects that are proposed for their communities, so they can speak up before local ecosystems are destroyed, and air and waterways are polluted.
Clean Water for Chacras de la Merced
ELAW partners in Argentina have won clean
water for Chacras de la Merced, a low-income
community of 5,000 along the Suquia River
on the eastern end of Cordoba.
Left to right: Victor Ricco, CEDHA; Ricardo Tosseli, CEQUIMAP Laboratory; Meche Lu, E-LAW U.S.
ELAW partners in Argentina have won clean water for Chacras de la Merced, a low-income community of 5,000 along the Suquia River on the eastern end of Cordoba.
Cleaning up Mercury Waste in India
ELAW advocates in southern India have
helped defuse an environmental time bomb. Tons of mercury waste from broken thermometers at the India site found its way to a dirt lot in a neighborhood near the factory. Local environmental authorities ordered the
Hindustan Lever Ltd., a subsidiary of the Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever, operated a mercury thermometer factory in Kodaikanal, in the state of Tamil Nadu.
Protecting Children from Lead Emissions in the Peruvian Andes
High in the Peruvian Andes, the community of La Oroya is gravely affected by lead, arsenic, and cadmium emissions from a U.S. corporation’s polymetallic smelter. Hundreds of children in La Oroya suffer from high blood lead levels.
High in the Peruvian Andes, the community of La Oroya is gravely affected by lead, arsenic, and cadmium emissions from a U.S. corporation’s polymetallic smelter. Hundreds of children in La Oroya suffer from high blood lead levels.
