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This month, the Centre for Environmental Justice in Sri Lanka announced back to back wins to enforce existing environmental protections.

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The global pandemic has put in-person ELAW Fellowships on hold, but we are working “face-to-face” with new Fellows from Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Guinea to help them build skills.

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Guyana's EPA is considering a proposal by US oil giant ExxonMobil to expand oil exploitation in the Stabroek block.
ELAW Staff Scientist, Dr. Mark Chernaik is helping Melinda Janki, an international lawyer and attorney-at-law in Guyana point out the potential harm from the development

Everyone at the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW) is adapting to the challenges of the global pandemic and finding ways to build on our high impact work. For years, we have done much of our work online, so we are well positioned to collaborate with our partners during this difficult time.

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The Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA) has tirelessly taken on polluters and defended communities and ecosystems since it was founded in 1992 by Dr. Mohiuddin Farooque. We are thrilled to announce that BELA, now lead by ELAW Partner, Rizwana Hasan, has been awarded a 2020 Tang Prize for Rule of Law.

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The world’s largest steel producer, ArcelorMittal, was fined this month for violating three atmospheric emission license conditions at its Vanderbijlpark operations, south of Johannesburg.

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ELAW is pleased to welcome our summer legal interns Kara Smith and Daniel Moltke Mogtaderi, and our undergraduate interns Ebba Hooft Toomey and Zoe Light.

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We are pleased to share a new video about the power of scientists to advance environmental justice, produced by our friends at True Costs Initiative.

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The Norwegian Supreme Court will soon hear an appeal challenging the Norwegian government’s decision to open new areas of the Arctic for oil exploration. The appeal was filed by Greenpeace and Nature & Youth (the Norwegian branch of Friends of the Earth). The Court has not yet set a date for the hearing.

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The ELAW Fellows Program is adapting to a new world. We planned to host Panamanian biologist Isaias Ramos (at right) for a two-week ELAW Fellowship at our U.S. office in April, but due to COVID-19 moved his program online, with good results.

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Since we can't gather in-person, we have organized a virtual opportunity to get together! Please join us for a screening and conversation about the documentary, The Story of Plastic.

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This year, Earth Day comes as the COVID-19 pandemic rages around the world. All of us on the ELAW US team are working together from home and staying safe.

ELAW is thrilled to announce that Pedro León Gutiérrez is rejoining the ELAW team!

ELAW Fellows Dickens Kumugisha from Uganda (above left) and Olivier Ndoole from the Democratic Republic of the Congo wrapped up their ELAW Fellowships mid-March.

We all need clean fresh water, but poor waste management, polluting industries, paving wetlands, and the climate
crisis are leading to severe water shortages in India, South Africa, and beyond. All over the world, citizens are speaking
out for clean fresh water.

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We are pleased to welcome two new ELAW Fellows. Hugo Echeverria joined us from Quito, Ecuador, and Gligor Radecic arrived from Zagreb, Croatia.

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Please join us in welcoming ELAW Fellow, Dickens Kamugisha, CEO at the Africa Institute for Energy Governance (AFIEGO).

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Twenty-five years ago, I traveled to Brazil to reach out to public interest lawyers and invite them to connect to ELAW. I met the founders of the (then) new organization Instituto Socioambiental (ISA). ELAW has worked with terrific lawyers at ISA ever since. In 1996, ISA sponsored the first ever indigenous lawyer in Brazil, Paulo Pankararu, to come to Oregon and work in our office.

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We are pleased to report another big win by our partners at the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association.

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Thousands of tons of single-use plastic are thrown away in Bangladesh every year, with countless plastic bags, bottles, cups, plates and straws making their way into the ocean. ELAW partner Syeda Rizwana Hasan and the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA) are making real progress reining in this plastic peril.

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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 pleased to welcome Olivier Bahemuke Ndoole to Eugene for a 10-week ELAW Fellowship.

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ELAW's law and science teams worked for years with attorney Carlos Soria to protect the unique green spaces surrounding Lima, Peru.

Taking on the Plastic Peril

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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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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.