You're invited! Music and drinks in support of ELAW!
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| Local band Monroe Street will perform at 6 p.m. |
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| ELAW Fellow Cesar Gamboa |
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| Local band Monroe Street will perform at 6 p.m. |
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| ELAW Fellow Cesar Gamboa |
The Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW) seeks a bilingual (French and English)
lawyer to join us on a one-year contract with possible extension.
Tennessee Clean Water Network v. Tennessee Valley Authority, No. 3:15-cv-00424 (M.D. Tenn. August 4, 2017)
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
For decades, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) disposed coal ash from a coal-fired power plant near Gallatin, Tennessee into unlined ponds adjacent to the Cumberland River. Two local organizations filed a case alleging violations of the Clean Water Act.
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Throughout 2017, grassroots advocates around the world called on ELAW for the legal and scientific tools and expertise they needed to protect their communities and ecosystems.
In re Application of Maui Electric Company, Case No. SCWC-15-0000640 (Dec. 14, 2017)
Hawaii Supreme Court
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The complaint filed 6 November 2017 is available through the link below.
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Tackling Pesticides in Ukraine & Around the World
An ELAW Global Community Conversation
with Kateryna Norenko & Dr. Mark Chernaik
In Wildearth Guardians, environmental organizations claimed that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) did not adequately address greenhouse gas emissions associated with coal leases. In its environmental analysis, the BLM had concluded that there was no appreciable difference between the United States’ total carbon dioxide emissions under the proposed leases and the alternative of not developing the leases (the ‘no action alternative’). The BLM concluded that opting not to issue these coal mine leases was unlikely to “result in a decrease of U.S.
