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Last week, a High Court in Gauteng, South Africa, refused permission for a large new coal mine in the Mabola Protected Environment in the Mpumalanga grasslands.

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The Democratic Republic of Congo proposes an enormous hydropower scheme, known as the Grand Inga, for the Congo River.

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We are thrilled to announce that, last week, former Irish President Mary Robinson presented Honduran attorney Laura Palmese-Henandez with a 2018 Climate Justice Award at the One Young World Summit in The Hague.

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

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Last week, ELAW partner Lottie Cunningham Wren was detained in the Managua International Airport for questioning by government agents in Managua, Nicaragua.

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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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Today, a Dutch Court of Appeal ruled that the Dutch government must do more to protect the climate. The Court, finding in favor of the Dutch NGO Urgenda, recognized the "grave danger" of climate change and called for the government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to at least 25% lower than 1990 levels, by 2020.
 

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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 for indigenous communities are using new mapping tools, including geographic information science (GIS), to protect indigenous lands.

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Sea level rise from climate change threatens to inundate Vietnam, while new coal-fired power plants and ill-advised coastal development also jeopardize fragile coastlines.

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India's National Green Tribunal (NGT) ordered quick remediation of 25,000 cubic meters of asbestos waste in a towering pile in the village of Roro in the State of Jharkhand. 

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In honor of International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, we are pleased to share our recent work with the Lawyers' Association for Human Rights of Nepalese Indigenous Peoples (LAHURNIP).

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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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This month, Uganda President Yoweri Museveni called on the country's security chiefs to enforce a ban on "kaveera" - the single-use plastic bags that flutter in trees, clog waterways, and endanger animals.

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ELAW Fellow Damaris Santanta returned to Guadalajara on Saturday and  immediately returned to the front lines, defending urban forests and indigenous rights with the legal team at Instituto de Derecho Ambiental (IDEA).

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Last week, ELAW and Tanzanian partner organizations LEAT and ALAPA co-hosted ELAW's 2018 Annual International Meeting and the African Public Interest Environmental and Human Rights Law Conference. 

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More than 100 grassroots defenders from 42 countries are gathered in Arusha, Tanzania, this week to work together and build a greener future at the 2018 ELAW Annual International Meeting.

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Fantastic news! Residents of South Africa's Karoo region are spared the threat of radioactive contamination of groundwater and air from an open-pit uranium mining project proposed by the Australian mining company Peninsula Energy.

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In a stunning win for communities in Lamu, Kenya, the government has been ordered to pay more than $17 million USD to 4,600 fishermen for damages caused by an enormous infrastructure project: the Lamu Port, South Sudan, Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET).

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Phewa Lake in Nepal's Pokhara Valley is famous for its stunning reflection of  majestic peaks in the Annapurna Himalayas.
We are thrilled to report that ELAW partners at the Kathmandu-based Pro Public have saved this natural wonder from a private company's scheme to operate a cable car from the lake's edge to the World Peace Pagoda on Ananda Hill.

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ELAW partners at Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental (CEMDA) are challenging the environmental impact assessments for the Veracruz Port expansion because they lack adequate and complete scientific information. ELAW Staff Scientist Dr. Heidi Weiskel has been working closely with CEMDA to challenge this port project, which threatens the largest coral ecosystem in the Gulf of Mexico, the Veracruz Reef System National Park.

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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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We are pleased to announce that our photo essay collection is now available online!  Enjoy 12 inspiring stories of communities around the world fighting for a healthy environment, and winning.

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Peru is taking bold steps to protect the climate through law. Last week, Peru's Congress unanimously approved the Ley Marco sobre Cambio Climático - the nation's first framework climate change law.

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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).