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Environmental
Law Alliance Worldwide - Has the goal of protecting
the environment through law across borders. Individuals, lawyers
and scientists around the world can call on the E-LAW network
for legal and scientific tools, resources and advice.
Centre
for International Environmental Law - (CIEL)
is a nonprofit organization working to use international law and
institutions to protect the environment, promote human health,
and ensure a just and sustainable society. They provide a wide
range of services including legal counsel, policy research, analysis,
advocacy, education, training, and capacity building. CIEL also
directs a joint research and teaching program with The
American University Washington College of Law.
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Environmental
law is an area or body of law, which includes
a system of complex and interlocking statutes, common law, treaties,
conventions, regulations and policies or laws which seek to protect
the natural environment. International environmental law is the
body of international law that concerns the protection of the
global environment or ecosystem. Typically, environmental laws
concern matters which may be affected, impacted or endangered
by human activities. Some environmental laws regulate the quantity
and nature of impacts of human activities: for example, setting
allowable levels of pollution. Other environmental laws are preventive
in nature and seek to assess the possible impacts before the human
activities can occur. This area of law is sometimes known as environmental
impact assessment. Environmental law is practiced in the public
interest against public actions, as well as against private interests.
Legal Information Institute - Cornell Law School - Resources
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Global warming
Poaching
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 Tuesday - January 9, 2007 - BRISTOL BAY, Alaska - On Tuesday, President Bush lifted the drilling ban for Alaska's Bristol
Bay. Bush's action clears the way for the Interior Department to open the
fish-rich
waters
to
oil and natural
gas development. Interior Secretary Dirk
Kempthorne said one or two lease sales in about 5.6 million acres of Bristol
Bay will be considered in the department's
upcoming five-year 2007-2012 lease plan. Alaska officials as well as local
communities had favored a lifting of the ban for economic reasons, arguing
that the area's oil and natural gas can be developed while still protecting
the fisheries. Environmentalists have warned against
drilling
in the bay, which
is a major fishing area for salmon, crab and cod. Separately, Bush also lifted
a drilling moratorium in an area of the central Gulf of Mexico known as Lease
Area 181. The Gulf waters area acted upon by the president is a
small part of a much larger 8.2 million acres that were approved for oil and
gas development
by Congress
last month in one of its last acts before adjournment.
Sunday - December 31, 2006 - LADYSMITH, Wisconsin - Midwest
Environmental Advocates filed a lawsuit last Thursday on behalf of the River
Alliance of Wisconsin
(RAW), the Wisconsin Wetlands
Association (WWA) and the Friends
of the St. Croix Headwaters (FOSCH), challenging the Wisconsin Department
of Natural Resource’s decision approving Enbridge Energy LP’s crude
oil pipeline without adequately studying and addressing impacts to the environment,
as required by law. Environmental activitists say the pipeline will increase
energy intensive crude oil excavation from the tar sand region in Alberta Canada,
increasing
production by up to 400,000 barrels per day. They
argue that tar sands extraction is very energy inefficient, such that by the
projected
year 2030 levels of development, extracting 5 million barrels per day of this
oil would require the same amount of natural gas needed to heat every home in
Canada for about two and a half years. 
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