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For more than 40 years, a Soviet-era chemical factory operated in the town of Kalush, 80 miles south of Lviv in western Ukraine.  Factory discharges contaminated local lands with hexachlorobenzene (HCB), a persistent organic pollutant (POP) and potent carcinogen.

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We wrote to you last year about land conflicts between settlers and Miskito communities on Nicaragua's North Atlantic Coast.  Sadly, things have not improved.

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ELAW partners in Belize have won a strong victory for citizens who want a voice in decisions about proposed developments.

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ELAW Fellow Alla Voytsikhovska has arrived from Lviv, Ukraine, where she works with our partner organization Environment People Law.

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The C.S.  Mott Foundation is celebrating more than 20 years of high impact collaborating with ELAW.

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This month, Belize banned offshore exploration in seven areas within the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System.

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All the best in 2016 from everyone at ELAW!  Market Watch has recognized ELAW as one of "10 little-known charities that do the most good"!

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The largest independent charity evaluator in the U.S.  awarded ELAW top marks, and named ELAW one of "10 Charities Worth Watching"! 

Friday's Register-Guard featured a Guest Viewpoint by Bern Johnson, ELAW Executive Director.

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Peruvian authorities have repeatedly declared the town of Huaraz under a state of emergency due to melting Andean glaciers and a swelling glacial lake that threatens to inundate the town.  In a pioneering battle, local farmer Saul Luciano Lliyua has filed suit against German energy giant RWE to protect his home from catastrophic floods.

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Mayan beekeepers in Campeche and Yucatan, Mexico, are celebrating last week's Supreme Court decision protecting their community and their bees from environmental hazards, including glyphosate, a toxicherbicide.

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Land conflicts between settlers and Miskito communities on Nicaragua's North Atlantic coast left at least 10 dead in September, and more this month.

ELAW partner Lottie Cunningham Wren, a Miskito attorney, is working with community members to end the conflict.

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Eugene Talk show host Sam Evans from Nonprofit Eugene set up shop in our conference room yesterday and interviewed ELAW Communications Director Maggie Keenan and ELAW partner Laura Palmese, a former ELAW Fellow, from Honduras.

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India's unique environmental court -- the National Green Tribunal -- continues to make waves taking on egregious environmental abuses, including tanneries in Kanpur that have dumped untreated waste into the Ganges for decades.

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More than 10 years ago, ELAW partner Eduardo Salazar and his organization Aja!  came to the aid of a farming community in Murcia whose orchards on the Mediterranean Coast were threatened by a 3,500 unit housing development.  The housing project also threatened Roman ruins.

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Egyptians are concerned that their government is moving forward, without citizen input, to allow multinational cement corporations to switch from clean burning gas to polluting coal-fired kilns.

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"Lawyers around the world are galvanizing to seek climate justice." writes Jennifer Gleason in today's Climate Dialogue series at the London-based Business and Human Rights Resource Centre.

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Remote rivers in Ukraine's Carpathian Mountains are some of the most beautiful in the world.  Sadly, these rivers are being targeted by corrupt investors who are installing small hydropower projects that are reducing rivers to a trickle, stranding fish.

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ELAW was splashed across the cover of yesterday's Eugene Register-Guard, announcing our new home.

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The Defenders: Eugene Environmental Law Advocates Move to Historic Home

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You're invited to an ELAW Open House & Pearl District Block Party

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A terrible injustice is unfolding in Mexico.  Eduardo Arturo Mosqueda Sánchez, a young human rights and environmental lawyer, was imprisoned without bail on July 22 while working to defend the Nahua people in Jalisco State.

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Great news!  India has shelved plans for a massive expansion of one of India's largest coal mines, which would have forced the relocation of 17 villages and impacted 135 schools and 90 public health centers.

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ELAW Fellows from Honduras and Germany are busy this summer learning about waste management in Lane County and environmental tribunals around the world.

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ELAW partners at the Centre for Environmental Rights are working to stop the sprawl of open-pit coal mines in South Africa's Mpumalanga Province grasslands, bordering Swaziland and Mozambique.

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Small hydropower plants in Ukraine's Carpathian Mountains are depriving communities of water.  ELAW is working with partners at Environment-People-Law (EPL) to hold the Ministry of Environment accountable.

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ELAW Staff Scientist Meche Lu traveled to Guatemala recently to help ELAW partners at the Environmental and Water Law Alliance (ADA2) raise awareness about the destruction of the Motagua River, and engage citizens and government authorities in conservation strategies.

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ELAW welcomes Paul Zepeda Castro from Honduras! Paul is an attorney volunteering with the Instituto de Derecho Ambiental de Honduras (IDAMHO). ELAW has worked with IDAMHO for many years, and we are excited to support Paul's efforts protecting the environment in Honduras.

ELAW eBulletin ELAW Staff Scientist Meche Lu was in Peru yesterday, sharing her expertise with leading non-profit organizations that are assessing the impacts of a new law that fast tracks oil, mining, and other projects, at the expense of the environment and citizens' rights. Meche was beamed in from her desk here in Eugene, saving costly airfare and the associated greenhouse gas emissions.

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Last week, ELAW's Pedro León was invited to speak about protecting the climate through law at a seminar hosted by the Supreme Court of Mexico's Human Rights Office.