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Our Mission & Vision
The Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW) helps communities speak out for clean air, clean water, and a healthy planet.
We are a global alliance of attorneys, scientists, and other advocates collaborating across borders to build a sustainable, just future.
ELAW envisions a world where ecosystems and communities are respected and protected, and decisions are grounded in the rule of law, sound science, and principles of environmental justice.
Defending Communities & Ecosystems
ELAW provides legal, scientific, and organizational expertise to help public interest lawyers advance environmental justice and protect critical ecosystems.
NEW GUIDEBOOK!
How to Evaluate Environmental Impact Assessments for Oil and Gas Projects
This guidebook aims to provide public interest environmental advocates and the communities they represent with sufficient understanding to challenge oil and gas projects that are unacceptable from an environmental or social perspective.
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Latest News
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Welcome ELAW Fellows
We are pleased to welcome our fall ELAW Fellows: Vanessa Torres from Bogota, Colombia (left) and Alpha Diallo from Conakry, Guinea. Vanessa and Alpha arrived in Eugene this weekend and will be with us for approximately three months. Vanessa has collaborated with ELAW for many years and says we are “friends and family.” Alpha is…
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Whole Ecosystems Protect Life on Earth
Loss of biodiversity and the degradation of our natural environment threaten all life on earth. ELAW is working with partners around the world to protect and restore ecosystems so that nature remains resilient and functional.
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Criminal Charges for Polluting a River in the Dominican Republic
ELAW partners in the Dominican Republic recently won a court verdict that brought criminal charges against the owner of a pig farm that had been polluting the Rio Jamao al Norte in Espaillat province for years. The court sentenced Luis Manuel Brache, owner of LB, SRL Pig Farm, to a one-year suspended sentence, suspended his…
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New Guide to Evaluating EIAs for Oil and Gas Projects
ELAW partners around the world are working with communities to ensure that proposed oil and gas projects do not abuse ecosystems, endanger community health, and destroy the climate. Partners have called on us for the tools they need to ground truth proposed projects and halt damaging projects before they leave the drawing board. We are…