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The world is beset by growing environmental problems including climate change that is melting the Arctic and declining stocks of fish and other wildlife. Liberalization of trade rules has added stress via increased resource extraction and the possibility of trade agreements’ superceding domestic environmental protection laws worldwide, as corporations migrate to the Third World in search of lax rules and cheap labor and resources.
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
Multinational company Bechtel settles $50 million legal claim for thirty cents after water privatization debacle.
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 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 leads the way in supporting the work of NGOs trying to defuse WTO challenges to environmental protection.
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.
