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ELAW Press ELAW partner Rahul Choudhary is the focus of a commentary by Sriram Khe.

ELAW eBulletin We are pleased to welcome Rahul Choudhary who arrived this morning for a 10-day ELAW Fellowship.

ELAW Advocate, Spring 2013 For too long, governments have failed to enforce environmental laws and allowed corporations to exploit natural resources for short-term gains. Citizens have been frozen out of decisions about the environment and government agencies have ignored sound science.

ELAW Press ELAW partner Golly Ramos has a regular column in the Cebu Daily News called “Mindfully Greenie.”

ELAW eBulletin Only 400 Asiatic Lions are left in the world. They all live in and around Gir National Park in the State of Gujarat, India. With all the lions living in one place, an epidemic could wipe out the entire population.

ELAW Press Cigarettes, plastic bags, food containers, caps, plastic bottles, and more litter the beaches in Belize, Guatemala and Honduras. Inadequate management of waste at the local level poses a regional challenge, according to a new report by the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW).

ELAW eBulletin ELAW partner and Oceana Attorney Audrey Matura has won a groundbreaking victory protecting the Belize Barrier Reef, the Laughing Bird Caye National Park, and Half Moon Caye Natural Monument from reckless oil development. Yesterday, a judge handed down a decision declaring six offshore oil contracts null and void.

Residents near India's largest copper smelter in Tamil Nadu are complaining of breathing problems and burning throat pain following a release of gas on March 23rd, 2013. Tamil Nadu's Pollution Control Board closed Sterlite Industries, a unit of London-based Vedanta Resources, but Sterlite filed an appeal. The National Green Tribunal has since ordered that the polluting facility remain closed except for a temporary restart of operations for the purpose of inspecting the plant.

ELAW eBulletin Plans by Barrick Gold to remove a glacier in the Andes to make way for a gold mine have been shelved by a Chilean court.

ELAW eBulletin ELAW Fellow Nataliya Horodetska arrived from Lviv on Sunday. This is orientation week for her at the University of Oregon's American English Institute. Nataliya will be with us for 10 weeks, to collaborate on her work as Legal Advisor at Environment People Law and improve her English.

ELAW partner Leo Saldhana at the Environment Support Group is pleased to announce that plans to clear valuable grasslands and forests to make way for nuclear, defense, space, and other high tech projects are on hold.

ELAW eBulletin Environmental leaders from around the world traveled to Eugene last week for the 2013 ELAW Annual Meeting. Participants arrived from Chad, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Mongolia, Kenya, Pakistan, Ecuador, and 20 other countries.

ELAW Advocate, Winter 2013: In January, a Thai court ordered the government to clean up Klity Creek and compensate the more than 300 ethnic Karen villagers for 15 years of toxic waste in their only source of water. The Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide provided Thai partners at EnLaw with information about the dangers of lead exposure and how to clean up lead contamination. In the year ahead, ELAW will help EnLaw develop, implement, and monitor an effective clean up.

ELAW partner Dana Tabachnik speaks with KLCC Radio about her work at the Israel Union for Environmental Defense.

The Eugene Weekly's Camilla Mortensen interviews ELAW partners Thuli Brilliance Makama of Swaziland and Elifuraha Laltaika of Tanzania.

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.

ELAW partner Ipat Luna joins members of the newly-formed People's Network for the Integrity of Coastal Habitats and Ecosystems to call for the restoration, instead of reclamation, of the coastal waters of Manila Bay

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 was the Featured Beneficiary of the 2013 Dance for a Reason benefit at the Hult Center in Eugene, Oregon.

ELAW was the 2013 beneficiary of Dance for a Reason's 19th Annual performance at Eugene's Hult Center.

ELAW is named 2013 beneficiary of the 19th Annual Dance for a Reason performance.

ELAW eBulletin For years, toxic waste from a lead mine had contaminated water, soil and aquatic wildlife around Klity Creek. ELAW helped our partners at EnLAW with information about the toxic impacts of lead contamination; EnLAW then obtained a judgement from a Thai court ordering the government to clean up the creek and compensate ethnic Karen villagers in Kanchanaburi province, west of Bangkok.

One of the most exhilarating things Heidi Weiskel hears before a business trip: Pack your boots. That means fieldwork, and whether it's studying snails in San Francisco Bay or trying to protect endangered mangroves in Panama, the sights, sounds and science of habitat exploration and preservation are more mission than job for this marine ecologist.

ELAW eBulletin Bazarsad Nanjindorj, an attorney who collaborates with the Centre for Human Rights and Development, arrived from Ulaanbaatar this week. He is working to protect communities and wild spaces in Mongolia from polluting mines.

After a legal battle that lasted almost a decade, a Thai court ordered the government to clean up Klity Creek and pay nearly $4 million in compensation to the villagers. ELAW provided partners at EnLaw with information about the dangers of lead exposure and advice on how to clean up the contamination.

Bern Johnson interview on storycatchers.org

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 Staff Scientists worked closely with Mexican partner organizations DAN and CEMDA to review the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for a massive open pit gold mine in the buffer zone of the Sierra de La Laguna Biosphere Reserve.

ELAW Advocate, Autumn 2012: As the U.S. market for coal shrinks, big coal companies are looking to ship their coal overseas. ELAW is helping partners around the world protect communities, ecosystems, and the climate from the scourge of coal.

Uganda's High Court of Kampala ruled that plastic bags, commonly referred to as "kaveera," violate the right of citizens to a clean and healthy environment. The Court ordered that a bill be drafted "expeditiously" to regulate the use of all plastics less than 100 microns.

ELAW eBulletin ELAW partner Kenneth Kakuru and his team at Greenwatch are celebrating the ruling by Uganda's High Court of Kampala that plastic bags, commonly referred to as "kaveera," violate the right of citizens to a clean and healthy environment. The Court ordered that a bill be drafted "expeditiously" to regulate the use of all plastics less than 100 microns.

ELAW eBulletin Emilio D'Cuire, a young scientist who works at the Honduran Environmental Law Institute (IDAMHO) has arrived for an ELAW Fellowship to build skills to prevent mining abuses and protect the Mesoamerican Reef and the coast of Honduras from short-sighted tourism development schemes.