In the past decade, EPA and over 20 states have created voluntary environmental leadership programs designed to recognize and reward businesses that take steps that go beyond compliance with environmental law; measuring progress, however, can be challenging...
An evaulation conducted by ELI and The Ocean Foundation finds that the Whole Foods Market grocery chain has taken commendable steps to reduce the environmental and social impacts of aquaculture, but it also identifies weaknesses and offers clear steps to improve the standards…
ELI, the ABA, and the National Association of Environmental Law Societies announce the fourth annual “Endangered Environmental Laws” Student Writing Competition. Deadline: April 6, 2009…
The September/October issue of the Environmental Forum proposes that policymakers must begin applying cognitive science to the process if they want their work to resonate with public understanding of the issue…
What happens when mercury released into our air and water finds its way into wetlands? Oftentimes it is converted into methylmercury, a bioaccumulative toxin…
Florida governor Charlie Crist signed into law in July a pathbreaking bill that will transform the redevelopment of former toxic waste sites, or “brownfields”…
Interactions between climate and biological invasions are the theme of a special section in the June 2008 issue of Conservation Biology, a leading scientific journal…
|