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Last week, ELAW partners in South Africa shared their latest victory: South Africa’s Constitutional Court slammed one door shut on plans to build a new coal mine inside an Mpumalanga Protected Area.

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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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Communities in the Mexican port city of Veracruz are celebrating a decision this week by the state environmental authority (SEMARNAT) that shelved short-sighted plans for a new landfill that threatened wetlands and a biological corridor.

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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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Last week, Poland’s Parliament dropped plans for a law that would allow the government to open new coal mines without the approval of local authorities. The Institute for Energy, Economics, and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) says this postponement pressures Poland “to prepare for the gradual closure of Bełchatów, Europe’s largest coal-fired power plant.”

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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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Valdivia Environmental Court canceled the license for the proposed blasting at Mina Invierno on remote Isla Riesco in Chile.

 ELAW staff scientists and attorneys worked closely with partners at Fiscalía del Medio Ambiente (FIMA) to challenge the project.

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In May, more than 100 shipping containers filled with waste from the United Kingdom (UK) arrived at the port city of Colombo, Sri Lanka. ELAW partners at the Centre for Environmental Justice (CEJ) are fighting to have the waste sent back to the UK and hold polluters accountable. A report from The Guardian says the leaking containers have an unbearable stench and may contain human remains.

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Coal kills people and hammers the climate, but governments and corporations continue trying to build new coal-fired power plants. ELAW is pleased to help partners in the Dominican Republic amplify local voices and present the economic case that a coal-fired power plant is a bad investment and should not be allowed to operate.

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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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Great news from Indonesia! In May, we reported that ELAW joined partners at the Indonesian Center for Environmental Law (ICEL) to advance work to ban plastic bags, straws, and styrofoam in Bali.

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The Lumbini UNESCO World Heritage site will now be protected from polluting cement plants and brick kilns that have encroached on a Buddhist pilgrimage site with archaeological remains associated with the birth of the Lord Buddha.

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Kenya’s National Environmental Tribunal revoked the license for a Chinese-backed coal-fired power plant, proposed for a UNESCO World Heritage site in Lamu, Kenya.

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We are thrilled to welcome ELAW Fellow Natasha Lisitcyna from Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East.

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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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We were thrilled to announce in November 2017 that Jamaican Prime Minister the Most Hon. Andrew Holness ordered protection for Cockpit Country from proposed bauxite mining.

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Plastic waste in Bali is a serious problem.

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ELAW partners in Bangladesh and Zimbabwe are celebrating hard fought victories for wetlands near Dhaka and Harare.

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We are thrilled to announce that ELAW partner Alfred Brownell, co-founder of Liberia’s Green Advocates, will be awarded a Goldman Environmental Prize today.

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We are inspired by many victories this past year for communities and the environment around the world.

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ELAW partner Natalia Lisitcyna at Sakhalin Environment Watch in Russia, and her colleagues, won a landmark court case last month, ordering the release of nearly 100 orcas and beluga whales captured in the Sea of Okhotsk and held in “whale jail” in Srednyaya Bay, near the far east port city of Nakhodka.

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In a stunning upset, grassroots attorney and Goldman Prize winner Zuzana Caputova has been elected President of Slovakia.

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ELAW has worked for years with partners in Malaysia to protect the community of Bukit Koman from a polluting gold mining operation. Villagers conducted environmental surveys to identify contaminants.

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More than 20 years ago, Udupi Power Corporation Ltd received permission to build a 1200 MW coal-fired power plant near the coast of Karnataka, without a public hearing and with an environmental impact assessment (EIA) that placed the plant 100 kilometers from its actual location! The plant began operating in 2010 and poses serious threats to human health and ecology.

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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).