Victories and Steps Along the Way

Victories Around the World

Terms:

UKRAINE
Court orders industry to inform citizens about air pollution

In January, ELAW partners in Ukraine celebrated a high court ruling ordering a subsidiary of France’s Lafarge Cement to release information on plans to expand kiln capacity by switching fuels from natural gas to coal and used tires! This victory for clean air ends a three year dispute between Environment-People-Law (EPL) and JSC Mykolaivcement (Lafarge Group).  

Around the World

Terms:

VICTORIES for clean water, for clean air, and healthy communities

Jamaica: Sewage PlantJAMAICA
Fixing a Leaking Sewage Plant
Who spends time thinking about what happens when you flush the toilet? A visit to the Harbour View Sewage Treatment Plant back in the 1980s prompted ELAW partner Diana McCaulay to leave her work in the insurance industry and launch the Jamaica Environment Trust.

Pellew Island Saved

Terms:

An idyllic Jamaican island has escaped its fate
as another high-end tourist destination.

Cleaning up Pesticide Dumps

Terms:
Hundreds of thousands of tons of obsolete pesticides are stockpiled around the world, many in rotting, rusting containers or bags that were discarded decades ago. These chemicals spill and leach from their containers, threatening water supplies and the world’s poorest communities. ELAW is working with partners in Nepal, Ukraine, and South Africa to protect communities from this toxic contamination.

Pellew Island, Jamaica

India Pollution Control Board Pulls the Plug on Worst Offenders

Terms:

In August, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board literally pulled the plug on two of the worst offenders: Tagros Chemicals and Shasun Drugs and Chemicals Ltd. The Pollution Control Board cited repeated failures by these companies to comply with the law, issued closure notices, and shut off their electrical power!

 ELAW partner Nity Jayaramand
ELAW partner Nity Jayaramand

Paint, pesticide and pharmaceutical manufacturers at the government-owned SIPCOT industrial complex in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, India, are endangering residents with toxic emissions.

Relief in Sight for Families in Hazaribagh

Terms:

The Bangladesh High Court has ruled that more than 1,000 polluting tanneries and other industries in Bangladesh will be closed if they do not put pollution control systems in place by February 2010. The people of Hazaribagh have been complaining about the tanneries for so long that they almost gave up hope. They will celebrate when the pollution stops,” says Rizwana Hasan, Executive Director of the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA).

Victories for Communities: Major victories for Uganda; Chile; Malaysia

Terms:

Mabira Forest and Bugala Island saved; Justice for toxic waste victims; Clean Air for Broga

UGANDA

Mabira Forest and Bugala Island saved

Victories for Communities: Ecuadorean protected area; South African steelworks pollution; Protecting World Heritage from global

Terms:

Victories for Communities: Copper mine near protected area halted; Steelworks must improve pollution control; Protecting World Heritage from global warming; Clean water for Ukraine; Cleaning-up abandoned pesticides.

Spider Monkey (Ateles sp.)
Spider Monkey (Ateles sp.) PHOTO: Jameson Weston, Utah`s Hogle Zoo

Developers of the Junin project, a potentially devastating mining project in the Intag region of Ecuador, have been sent back to the drawing board.

Victories & Steps Along the Way: Peru, Chile, Spain, Tanzania, Honduras, South Africa

Terms:

Protecting Public Health in Peru; Chile to Compensate Toxic Waste Victims; Chile Protects Endangered Hardwood; Protecting Birds in Central Spain; Cleaning up Lake Victoria; Hope for Natural Resources in Honduras; Nuclear Power Plant Halted in South Africa

E-LAW U.S. has collaborated with partners around the world to win hundreds of victories for the environment, public health, and human rights. These victories mean that forests and critical ecosystems are healthier, and communities around the world are breathing cleaner air and drinking cleaner water. A few recent successes illustrate E-LAW’s high impact work.

Protecting Public Health in Peru

12next ›last »
Syndicate content
“The best thing one can do to secure the future of her children is to leave behind a livable earth – a place that allows us to breathe, dream, evolve, assist and when necessary, resist.”

Rizwana Hasan
Bangladesh: Rizwana with workers