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In 2019, the ELAW Fellows Program welcomed 10 ELAW Fellows from Brazil, Czech Republic, Guinea, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Hungary, Russia, and Ukraine. Many thanks to ELAW host families here in Eugene who provided homes, field trips, and more for our international guests!

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We are thrilled to share a landmark victory, announced this week by the head of the Philippines Commission on Human Rights during COP25 international climate talks in Madrid.

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We are pleased to announce a new addition to our law team!
Paola Eisner holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, a B.A. from Brown University, and a B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design.

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This Giving Tuesday, I hope you will support ELAW in our fight for environmental justice.

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 Thank you to the volunteers, partners, and supporters who endorsed ELAW's work! ELAW has also received Charity Navigator and Guidestar's highest ratings for accountability, transparency, and financial responsibility.

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ELAW Staff Scientists and partners from Liberia and Honduras inspired participants at last week’s American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) “Science, Technology and Human Rights Conference,” in Washington, D.C.
 

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Defending the environment is more dangerous than ever. Last week, ELAW partners shared disturbing details in brave testimony before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in Washington, D.C.

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We are thrilled to welcome ELAW Fellow Saa Pascal Tenguiano from Conakry, Guinea.

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We are pleased to announce our new hire!  Bernard Ngalim, Africa Program Fellow, brings valuable experience championing human rights in Cameroon and across Africa.

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 ELAW Fellow Juliana de Paula Batista arrived last week from Brasilia. She is an attorney at a leading NGO in Brazil, Instituto Socioambiental, which works to defend indigenous peoples and their organizations across Brazil.
 

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Thanks to great reviews of our work from ELAW partners and supporters like you, ELAW has been honored as a Top-Rated Nonprofit by GreatNonprofits for the fourth year in a row!

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Please join us in welcoming ELAW Fellow Laura Haiselova. Laura is an attorney on the Responsible Energy team at ELAW's partner organization, Frank Bold, based in Brno, Czech Republic.

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Grassroots defenders from 40 countries gathered in Eugene last week to collaborate across borders and help communities around the globe speak out for clean air, clean water, and a healthy planet.

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ELAW is hosting visitors from more than 40 countries for the 2019 ELAW Annual International Meeting and side events (February 24 - 28) followed by the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC, February 28 - March 3).

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ELAW is expanding its work protecting the environment through law in Francophone Africa by reaching out to new, promising grassroots advocates. ELAW is pleased to introduce Bernard Ngalim, a lawyer from Cameroon, and Issiaga Keita, a lawyer with Memes Droits pour Tous in Guinea. Issiaga and Bernard arrived this week for ELAW Fellowships.
 

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India's Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has mandated that new coal-fired power plants must comply with "Human Health and Environment" criteria as part of the environmental clearance process. This includes baseline community health assessments and periodic health monitoring.

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In honor of Giving Tuesday, I hope you will support ELAW's fight to secure climate justice and defend human rights around the world.

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As we approach #GivingTuesday on November 27, I hope you will support ELAW in our fight to secure climate justice and defend human rights around the world.

Thanks to everyone who participated in this community conversation on climate change!

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Air pollution in Poland is among the worst in Europe. "People use coal for home heating, and dangerous particulate matter contaminates the air," says  ELAW Fellow Milosz Jakubowski.
Milosz arrived this week from  the Poland office of Frank Bold, where grassroots attorneys are taking the lead to keep coal in the ground in Central Europe.

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The damage that humans are doing to the global climate may be one of the gravest injustices of all time. ELAW is working with partners around the world to fight for climate justice.

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Please extend a warm welcome to ELAW Fellow Hanna Khomechko who arrived from Lviv on Tuesday.

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Advocates challenging environmental and human rights abuses often face threats, intimidation, and harassment.  According to Global Witness, at least 207 land and environmental defenders were killed last year, making 2017 the deadliest year on record for environmental advocates.

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The world is responding to the scourge of single-use plastics: Seattle banned plastic straws as of July 1, Vanuatu announced plans to ban single-use plastics this year, Starbucks will phase out plastic straws worldwide by 2020, and Costa Rica seeks a ban on most single-use plastics by 2021.

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Please extend a warm welcome to ELAW Fellow Brice Severin Pongui who arrived from Congo-Brazzaville on Thursday.

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ELAW Fellows Delvin Rosalio and Juana Bilbano were featured in this week's edition of The Eugene Weekly.

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Join us in extending a warm welcome to new ELAW Fellow Damaris Santana!

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This week we welcome new ELAW Fellows Juana Bilbano and Delvin Rosalio from Centro por la Justicia y Derechos Humanos de la Costa Atlántica de Nicaragua (CEJUDHCAN).

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New ELAW Fellows arrived yesterday! We are pleased to welcome Aura Tegria Cristancho from Colombia and Kadi-Kaisa Kaljuveer from Estonia.

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We hope you'll join us for a fun-filled evening in support of ELAW!

Wednesday, January 31
5 - 7 p.m.
Oakshire Brewing
207 Madison Street

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Throughout 2017, grassroots advocates around the world called on ELAW for the legal and scientific tools and expertise they needed to protect their communities and ecosystems.

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I'm thrilled to report that organizations are recognizing ELAW for our good work!  Recently, ELAW was named a 2017 Top-Rated Nonprofit by GreatNonprofits!

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Join ELAW Fellow Kateryna Norenko and ELAW Staff Scientist Dr. Mark Chernaik to learn about communities in Ukraine fighting pesticide abuses and progress being made around the world protecting ecosystems from pesticides.

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Visiting ELAW Fellow Kateryna Norenko will speak about communities in Ukraine fighting pesticide abuses. Kateryna is a staff scientist at the Kyiv office of Environment People Law.

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We are pleased to introduce our new ELAW Fellows, Kateryna Norenko from Ukraine (on right) and David Linares from Mexico.  Meet Kateryna and David on Tuesday, October 3 from 5-7 p.m. at the Ninkasi Tasting Room. $1 of each pint sold will benefit ELAW's Fellows Program!

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Stop by ELAW during the Pearl Street Block Party for an Open House on Thursday, September 21, 2017 from 5:00-7:00pm. 

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International Law Supports Youth Plaintiffs Case Continuing Trump Administration's Petition would have Catastrophic Implications say Groups.

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Oakshire Inspires!

Join ELAW Tomorrow, 9/6, at Oakshire Brewing.
$1 from every beer sold in our pub is donated to ELAW!

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Last year was the deadliest year on record for human rights defenders, with 281 reported murders (Front Line Defenders). Michel Forst, the UN Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, denounces these "deliberate attacks to eliminate those who are trying to protect their land and their traditions."

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We are pleased to introduce our new ELAW Fellow, Diana Vasquez from Tegucigalpa, Honduras.  Diana is a marine biologist and Executive Director at Centro de Estudios Marinos (Center for Marine Ecology, CEM).

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Last week, ELAW summer interns and visiting Fellow Zuzana Caputova
toured the Eugene-Springfield Water Pollution Control Facility, which treats wastewater from more than 200,000 residents in the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area.

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In 2015, 195 nations signed the Paris Agreement, and committed to working together to prevent catastrophic climate change by capping global temperature rise at 2 degrees celsius above pre-Industrial levels.  ELAW U.S. is shocked and disappointed by the decision of the Trump Administration to leave the Paris Agreement.

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A Global Community Conversation with Zuzana Čaputová.

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Help ELAW Meet Our $10,000 GiveBIG Challenge!

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We are thrilled to welcome Goldman Prize winner Zuzana Caputova to Eugene, where she will participate in a 10-week ELAW Fellowship.  Zuzana is an attorney at Via Iuris, Slovakia's leading grassroots environmental organization.

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ELAW is hosting visitors from more than 45 countries for the 2017 ELAW Annual International Meeting and side events (February 26 - March 2) followed by the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC, March 2 - 5).

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Tech strategy and support at ELAW got a big boost when Encore Fellow Michael Fuller joined our team last September!

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Hungarian lawyer Tamás Börcsök enjoyed smooth sailing from Budapest to San Francisco, but winter weather in Eugene delayed the arrival of our ELAW Fellow by two days!

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All of us at ELAW wish you a happy new year

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We are pleased to welcome Erick Kassongo, our first ELAW Fellow from the largest nation in Sub-Saharan Africa -- the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

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Thanks to your support, organizations are recognizing ELAW for our good work! We were thrilled when MarketWatch highlighted ELAW as one of "10 Little-Known Charities That Do the Most Good" in December 2015.  Most recently, ELAW was named a 2016 Top-Rated Nonprofit by GreatNonprofits!

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All of us at ELAW U.S. were disappointed by the results of the U.S. presidential election. Now, with strong support from our partners around the world, our disappointment is turning to resolve.

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Solar installers with AES Renew and Solar Assist will erect a 3.5kW solar array on the roof of a 102-year old historic Eugene building, home to the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide, on Tuesday, October 25, at 1:00PM at 1412 Pearl Street.

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ELAW Fellow Samyra Idllalene, a law professor at Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech, is exploring how Islamic law and other legal systems work to protect natural heritage.

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We are thrilled to share great news from Jamaica - the Goat Islands are saved!  A plan for a trans-shipment port and logistics hub in the Portland Bight Protected Area near Jamaica's Goat Islands has been canceled because of the threat of serious environmental damage.

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Moroccan legal scholar Dr. Samira Idllalène is here working with ELAW this fall. Samira is a law professor at Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech and our first partner from Morocco.

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Thank you ELAW Volunteers!

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Stop by ELAW during the Pearl Street Block Party for an Open House, cider-tasting with WildCraft Cider Works, and live music by John Baumann of Satori Bob!

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ELAW Fellow Daena Rosa Lobo is sharing lessons with federal and state judges, and learning first-hand about the U.S. judiciary system.

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ELAW partner Zelda Soriano at Greenpeace writes with good news: "For the first time ever, a national human rights body has ordered the world's largest fossil fuel companies to respond to allegations that they have contributed to human rights abuses in the Philippines."

Zelda is Legal & Political Advisor for Greenpeace Southeast Asia.

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We are pleased to introduce our summer ELAW Fellow, Daena Rosa Lobo.  Daena is a sentencing judge in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and was recommended for a Fellowship by ELAW partners at Instituto de Derecho Ambiental de Honduras (Environmental Law Institute of Honduras, IDAMHO).

Eduardo Mosqueda Sánchez is Free, Summer 2016

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Beat the heat and join the ELAW team after work on Thursday, June 2nd for Ninkasi Brewing Company's Pints for a Cause! 

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Join ELAW Fellow Kristina Sabova for a discussion of her organization’s work with ELAW to keep coal in the ground.  Kristina leads an international team of lawyers at Frank Bold, an environmental organization in the Czech Republic. ELAW and Frank Bold are working together to protect communities from polluting coal plants and advance green energy solutions.

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In 1986, Olena Kravchenko joined hundreds of school children marching in a May Day parade in Kyiv, Ukraine.

This was five days after the April 26 steam explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant sent a plume of radioactivity over the western Soviet Union, Europe, and the eastern U.S.

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On Tuesday, May 3, The Seattle Foundation will host GiveBIG, the annual charitable giving event that inspires people to give generously.

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We are thrilled to announce that ELAW partner Zuzana Caputova will be awarded a Goldman Environmental Prize today.

Goldman announced that Zuzana led a successful campaign to protect her community from toxic waste.

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The Register-Guard included a Guest Viewpoint on Sunday by local writer Jourdan Arenson. Jourdan describes the power of the ELAW Fellows Program and how it strengthens the capacity of promising advocates from Ukraine, Morocco, Thailand, and more, to protect communities and the environment.

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Last week, the Government of Nicaragua pulled a "no show" at public hearings before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and also at a working meeting with IACHR and ELAW partner Lottie Cunningham Wren.

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A student volunteer group founded in 1995 has grown into the biggest watchdog organization in the Czech Republic.  They call themselves Frank Bold, because they are "frank" about their reasons and "bold" about their actions.

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Samira is a law professor at Cadi Ayyad University and our first partner from Morocco.  She is an expert in marine law and speaks English, French, Arabic, and her native Amazigh.

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Yesterday, ELAW Fellow Alla Voytsikhovska (Ukraine) joined Laura Palmese (Honduras), and Ashijya Otwongk (Thailand) for a tour of our local Hayden Bridge Water Treatment Plant.

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ELAW partners in Belize have won a strong victory for citizens who want a voice in decisions about proposed developments.

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ELAW Fellow Alla Voytsikhovska has arrived from Lviv, Ukraine, where she works with our partner organization Environment People Law.

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The C.S.  Mott Foundation is celebrating more than 20 years of high impact collaborating with ELAW.

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All the best in 2016 from everyone at ELAW!  Market Watch has recognized ELAW as one of "10 little-known charities that do the most good"!

Friday's Register-Guard featured a Guest Viewpoint by Bern Johnson, ELAW Executive Director.

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Eugene Talk show host Sam Evans from Nonprofit Eugene set up shop in our conference room yesterday and interviewed ELAW Communications Director Maggie Keenan and ELAW partner Laura Palmese, a former ELAW Fellow, from Honduras.

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"Lawyers around the world are galvanizing to seek climate justice." writes Jennifer Gleason in today's Climate Dialogue series at the London-based Business and Human Rights Resource Centre.

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ELAW was splashed across the cover of yesterday's Eugene Register-Guard, announcing our new home.

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The Defenders: Eugene Environmental Law Advocates Move to Historic Home

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You're invited to an ELAW Open House & Pearl District Block Party

ELAW Advocate, Summer 2015

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ELAW welcomes Paul Zepeda Castro from Honduras! Paul is an attorney volunteering with the Instituto de Derecho Ambiental de Honduras (IDAMHO). ELAW has worked with IDAMHO for many years, and we are excited to support Paul's efforts protecting the environment in Honduras.

ELAW eBulletin ELAW Staff Scientist Meche Lu was in Peru yesterday, sharing her expertise with leading non-profit organizations that are assessing the impacts of a new law that fast tracks oil, mining, and other projects, at the expense of the environment and citizens' rights. Meche was beamed in from her desk here in Eugene, saving costly airfare and the associated greenhouse gas emissions.

Environmental Heroes Come to Eugene

ELAW eBulletin "It can be lonely back home, working in the public interest," says Sofiya Shutiak, Staff Attorney at Environment-People-Law in Ukraine, one of more than 50 grassroots leaders from 30 countries that met in Yachats, Oregon, last week for the 2015 ELAW Annual International Meeting.

ELAW eBulletin ELAW partners around the world are collaborating to seek justice for the communities that are poised to suffer the worst consequences of climate change.

ELAW eBulletin ELAW partners in India, Russia, the Philippines, Pakistan, Jamaica, and around the world are making news, and ELAW is tweeting it.

ELAW eBulletin Dear friends, With the gift-giving season in full swing, please consider making a gift to ELAW to honor someone you love and protect the environment. When you make a gift to ELAW in honor of a friend or loved one, we will send the recipient a personalized, seasonal wildlife card.

ELAW eBulletin Nobody likes trash. All over the world, we should produce less of it. Here in Eugene, we have good systems for reducing, re-using, and recycling waste. ELAW fellows from Mexico, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Slovakia, and more have taken home valuable lessons from touring our local municipal solid waste operations.

ELAW eBulletin A new report published by the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide concludes that courts in several countries are poised to pursue climate justice.

ELAW Bulletin ELAW is helping lawyers around the world protect communities and the environment, and they need help from scientists.

ELAW Bulletin Mangroves play a critical role buffering coastal communities against flooding and storms and provide habitat for thousands of species of birds and marine animals. Recent evidence suggests that mangroves sequester carbon very effectively and healthy mangroves could help protect our climate.

ELAW Bulletin ELAW Fellows Oksana Imetkhenova and Liubov Balandina returned to Ulan-Ude earlier this month with new tools and inspiration to protect Lake Baikal and surrounding forests.

ELAW Bulletin We were surprised and thrilled Saturday night to learn that we were receiving the 2014 David Brower Lifetime Achievement Award. The students of Land Air Water, the organizers of the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC), awarded us this high honor.

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ELAW's newest Fellow, Harriet Bibangambah from Kampala, Uganda, arrived on Monday. Over the next two weeks she will work with the ELAW team to strengthen her organization, Greenwatch. She will also attend the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC) and meet ELAW partners from around the world.

ELAW eBulletin ELAW is thrilled to be releasing a new publication, "Natural Resource Contracts: A Practical Guide," which will help grassroots advocates around the world understand these agreements and advocate for stronger environmental, social, and fiscal provisions.

ELAW eBulletin ELAW celebrates this next generation of grassroots advocates!

Profiles of grassroots advocates from around the world who traveled to Eugene for the 2013 ELAW Annual Meeting followed by the 31st Annual Public Interest Environmental law Conference.

The Wood River Land Trust of Hailey, Idaho has given its most prestigious award, the Founders’ Award, to ELAW Staff Attorney Liz Mitchell.

ELAW eBulletin ELAW is thrilled to welcome Alejandra Serrano to Eugene. She joins ELAW Fellows Ana Lucia Maya from Colombia, Thuli Makama from Swaziland, and Emilio d'Cuire from Honduras who arrived earlier this year.

ELAW eBulletin: The ELAW office is an exciting place this week! Grassroots leaders from Haiti, Mongolia, and Russia have arrived, and partners from Guatemala, Canada, and Madagascar will join us soon. These ELAW Fellows are collaborating across borders to protect the Lake Baikal watershed, challenge polluting mining operations, and win justice for disenfranchised communities.

ELAW and the Ems. ELAW will be the Featured Nonprofit at the Eugene Emerald's baseball game on August 4th. You can take part in a Eugene tradition and support ELAW.

ELAW welcomes Maria Rosario Mayi to Eugene for a ten-week Fellowship. Maria works with the Dominican Republic's leading grassroots environmental law organization: Instituto de Abogados para la Protección del Medio Ambiente (INSAPROMA).

Imrich Vozár arrived Monday night from Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, for a 10-day ELAW Fellowship. This is Imrich's first visit to the U.S. He is working one-on-one with ELAW staff while finding time to explore Eugene on the ELAW bicycle.

ELAW Fellows from three continents arrived on Monday to work with us to protect communities and the environment, and to participate in the 2011 Public Interest Environmental Law Conference. Yesterday, we toured NextStep Recycling, a model for e-waste recycling.

Agnes Gajdics has arrived from Hungary! She is our new ELAW Fellow and will spend the next nine weeks learning English and collaborating with ELAW staff to protect communities in Hungary from polluting coal mines, hazardous waste, and other environmental abuses.

Euren Cuevas, an environmental lawyer from the Dominican Republic, is spending the next six weeks at the ELAW office in Eugene, learning English and collaborating with ELAW staff. We are excited to have him here with us!

CRUDE: The Real Price of Oil is coming to the Northwest. This award winning documentary features ELAW Partner and Goldman Prize winner Pablo Fajardo, and his community's fight to obtain justice from ChevronTexaco for the devastation of the Ecuadorian Amazon. We recommend that you go see it.

ELAW partners from 25 countries traveled to Eugene for the 2009 ELAW Annual Meeting, February 22 - 26. See news reports on our partners and this inspired gathering.

ELAW partners from 25 countries traveled to Eugene for the 2009 ELAW Annual Meeting. They gained skills and resources that will make them more effective advocates for their communities and wild places.

The Public Interest Environmental Law Conference is the oldest and largest annual gathering of its kind. The Conference is organized solely by the volunteers of Land Air Water (LAW), a student environmental law society, and is sponsored by Friends of Land Air Water (FLAW), a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. More information about the PIELC can be found at the PIELC website, "http://www.pielc.org/".

Staff Attorney Jennifer Gleason is helping lawyers around the world advance laws that encourage the production of electricity from renewable sources. This work is helping policymakers in Oregon promote the use of renewable energy.

When a multinational oil company sends natural gas flares into the air in Nigeria, or a factory dumps chemicals into Mexico`s Lake Chapala, will local environmentalists be able to harness the legal clout to get the pollution stopped?

Harvard Law School has recognized the valuable work of Bern Johnson in the current Harvard Law Bulletin. Bern has served as Executive Director at E-LAW U.S. for more than 10 years.

E-LAW U.S. contributed to a landmark report released by Friends of the Earth International, showing that oil giant ExxonMobil and its predecessors are responsible for about 5% of all human caused carbon dioxide emissions around the world.

ELAW advocates in Chile have scored a tremendous victory for the snowy peaks and icy fjords of Central Patagonia. Toronto-based Noranda Inc. has canceled plans to build three dams and one of the world`s largest aluminum smelters in the Aysén region of so

2003 E-LAW Annual International Meeting Best Yet! Sixty-six environmental advocates from 34 countries traveled to Oregon for the 2003 E-LAW Annual International Meeting (March 2 - 6) and built the partnerships that make the E-LAW network strong.

Help E-LAW U.S. launch its "Corporate Challenge for a Sustainable Future" campaign. Join an opening evening reception at the 6th Annual Sustainable Business Symposium, November 7, at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

E-LAW U.S. is co-sponsoring an exciting event this week. On Thursday, October 3rd, Lottie Cunningham Wren, a Miskito Indian lawyer, will speak at the University of Oregon School of Law about an inspiring victory for the human rights of indigenous people

Although separated by language, culture and thousands of miles, these individuals and hundreds more have found crucial scientific and legal counsel via their membership in E-LAW, a Eugene-based nonprofit that has set up an electronic communication network

ENS interviews one of ELAW's founders, John Bonine.