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The Environmental Law Institute is widely respected as “a nonpartisan organization specializing in legal analysis and not known for taking sides in political fights,” as the New York Times has noted. When members of the media, private bar, government, business, and public interest organizations seek expert information on environmental law and policy, they turn to ELI.On December 24, 2002, the Army Corps of Engineers released new guidelines for compensatory mitigation projects authorized under Clean Water Act and joined five other federal agencies in a new National Wetlands Mitigation Action Plan. The new…
Thousands of brownfields and other contaminated sites are being returned to beneficial uses as a result of state programs, yet many of these sites lack adequate measures to protect site users from any contamination that may be left, according to…
The Environmental Law Institute® has been awarded generous grants in support of new and continuing projects in Africa. For more than three years, the Institute’s Africa Program has promoted sound environmental law, policy, and management…
The face of mitigation banking has changed substantially over the past 10 years, according to a report released by the Environmental Law Institute. Based on a two-year study of off-site compensatory mitigation, ELI found that wetland mitigation…
Each year the environmental community comes together to honor individuals who have dedicated their time and energy to protecting our nation’s precious wetlands. The Washington, DC-based Environmental Law Institute® has presented the National…
Non-native species like the voracious snakehead fish, the tenacious glossy buckthorn tree, and the damaging zebra mussel, threaten the ecological integrity and biological diversity of our nation’s natural systems. They displace native plants and…
An urgent need exists for global standards of public participation to promote sustainable development and protect basic human rights such as free speech, healthy living conditions, and access to information for decisions that affect the public,…
The Environmental Law Institute® has promoted Pooja Seth Parikh to Director of its India Program. Parikh has served as the Deputy Director of the India Program for the past year.
Parikh is excited about the Program’s success to date. She…
At a time when major questions are being asked all across the political spectrum about the state of the nation’s and the world’s environment, the Environmental Law Institute® releases …
The Environmental Law Institute® has just released a report showing that states can link their investments in open space with practical measures to shape community growth and economic development. …