Events and Announcements

Dear deputies, dear Lviv region community! We ask you to pay attention to the menacing environmental catastrophe that is already on our threshold. By this we mean the permit to develop shale gas in the territory of Ukraine. Shale gas is natural gas located mostly in soft shale rock with wide branching of fissures. Gas…

On January 22, 2013 Lviv Appellate Economic Court denied an appeal of a private company and upheld the decision of the lower court of August 31, 2012 granting Environment-People-Law access to company’s documents containing environmental information. For almost two years EPL fought for court interpretation and application of a new progressive provision of the Law…

In January 2013, international public interest environmental law organization Environment-People-Law became a member of the Academy of Environmental Law of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The organization is IUCN member and in 2003 it was recognized the IUCN legal excellency center.  Members of the Academy are leading universities and research law institutions worldwide….

On 11 July 2009, EPL together with its friends celebrated its 15th anniversary in Slavsko. In the picturesque Carpathians EPL employees remembered the history of the organization founding and its first steps and also planned strategic directions of further EPL’s activity.