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Birds and whales are miraculous creatures, but they don't read maps. Nor do plumes of smoke, or gases that accumulate in the atmosphere and change the climate. Likewise, economic activity is becoming ever more indifferent to national boundaries, plundering natural resources in one area, then moving on to the next. Trade can spread pollution even as it boosts the economy for the wealthy.
Inuit Get Human Rights Hearing on Global Warming
Representatives of the Inuit, Earthjustice and the Center for International Environmental Law have been invited to appear at a hearing scheduled by the Inter-American Conference on Human Rights.
Read about the hearing
A plan to export obsolete military ships to England for scrapping is stopped.
Placing energy plants across the border with Mexico, to serve the US electricity grid, does not waive U.S. clean air requirements
Costa Rican courts issue injunction against construction projects in critical leatherback nesting habitat.
Court Halts Export of Nine Toxic Ships As Four Are Greeted by Protests
Responding to a December court order, the administration releases some negotiating papers but withholds text of the agreement.
Earthjustice leads the way in supporting the work of NGOs trying to defuse WTO challenges to environmental protection.
Earthjustice succeeds in convincing the Methanex tribunal that it had the authority to allow us to make written submissions in the case, opening the door to public participation.
Earthjustice's International program played a key role in convincing a United Nations expert to find that, under international law, "[a]ll persons have the right to a secure, healthy and ecologically sound environment."
In January 2001, a settlement was reached with the EPA to ensure that the agency sets standards for large cargo ships by 2003.
