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Protecting Costa Rica`s Tropical Coastline
Hard work by E-LAW partners in Costa Rica has led to exciting progress in a campaign to protect the Caribbean coast from oil development. The newly-elected President Abel Pacheco, in his inaugural address, declared a new era of "peace with the environment
Challenges in Sri Lanka and NepalTerms:
Court victories for E-LAW advocates in Asia working to clean up garbage and dust. Sri Lanka: Wildlife Sanctuary Doubled as Dump More than 20 truckloads of garbage, including hospital waste and waste from hotels, industries and households was being dumped daily in the Bellanwila-Athidiya Sanctuary, reports Sri Lanka`s Sunday Observer (1/6/02). Congratulations to E-LAW partners at the Environmental Foundation Ltd. in Sri Lanka for stopping this abuse of what may be Sri Lanka`s only remaining urban wildlife sanctuary. Workshop in Peten: Mesoamerican Forum for LifeTerms:
Participants discuss the negative impacts of proposed dams for the region.
Over 400 people representing 98 organizations and communities from 21 countries met at Cooperativa Unión Maya Itzá, Petén, Guatemala (March 21-23, 2002) for the "Mesoamerican Forum for Life." E-LAW advocate Candy Gonzalez of the Belize Institute of Environmental Law and Policy was joined by E Victory for Clean Air in South AfricaTerms:
South Africa will phase out leaded gasoline and reduce the sulfur content of diesel fuel. After years of intensive efforts to educate communities and government representatives in South Africa about the dangers of sulfur and lead in petrol, the South African Cabinet announced a decision in May 2002 to phase out lead and reduce the sulfur content of diesel to 500 ppm by 2006. This is a 10-fold reduction in South Africa`s current limit on sulfur. Travel Notes: John Bonine in IndiaTerms:
E-LAW co-founder John Bonine reports on his recent trip to India to visit E-LAW advocate M.C. Mehta. John Bonine has worked to protect the environment through law for 30 years, first at the U.S. Senate, then at the U.S. EPA, and now as a law professor at the University of Oregon where he founded the Environmental Law Clinic. He is an E-LAW co-founder and a member of the E-LAW U.S. Board of Directors.
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