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GreenLaw’s Annual Environmental Heroes Event

Carvalho & Associates, P.C. is pleased to annouce its continued support to GreenLaw as a Sponsor for the 2013 Environmental Heros Event held in Atlanta, GA.

GreenLaw is a Georgia-based nonprofit law firm serving environmental and community organizations that have been adversely impacted by pollution. We champion the right of every Georgian to breathe clean air, drink clean water, live in healthy communities, and enjoy our state’s natural beauty. GreenLaw uses its legal and technical expertise to compel unresponsive government agencies to enforce the law and industries to remedy serious water and air pollution violations across the state. These efforts have resulted in the installation of millions of dollars of new pollution controls and the clean-up of dirt and chemicals.

GreenLaw is dedicated to preventing air and water pollution that endangers human health and degrades Georgia’s natural resources. GreenLaw achieves these goals by providing free high quality legal and technical assistance to environmental organizations and community groups throughout Georgia. By providing these critical services, GreenLaw succeeds in compelling government and industry to take the steps necessary to protect Georgia’s citizens and the environment. In all its work, GreenLaw champions the belief that every Georgian, young and old, rich and poor, has the right to breathe clean air, drink clean water, live in healthy communities, and enjoy our state’s natural beauty.

GreenLaw was founded in 1992 by attorneys, law professors, and judges committed to providing community groups in Georgia with the legal and technical tools needed to protect their environment and public health. These founders recognized the essential need for a powerful public interest legal group to challenge industry and government actions that have degraded Georgia’s environment.

For decades, Georgia environmental and conservation groups have prodded polluters to obey the law while also demanding that the state enforce the law more effectively. However, the protection of our resources often depends on the interpretation and implementation of complex environmental laws and regulations. Industrial polluters pay large corporate firms with fleets of lawyers and aides to protect their interests. The government is well prepared to defend its inadequate enforcement of the law with the assistance of attorneys who are funded by taxpayer monies.

GreenLaw’s legal expertise has been an essential component in the battle to compel unresponsive government agencies to enforce the law and to force industries to remedy serious water and air pollution violations across the state. We have a solid history of success: our water quality program has forced industry to install critical pollution controls at facilities across the state. GreenLaw’s air program has stopped the permitting of two new coal-fired plants and reduced emissions at existing plants. And our environmental justice program has a solid track record of representing low-income community groups to tackle pollution in their back yards. While much progress has been made in our short history, much remains to be done. GreenLaw stands ready to meet these challenges.

For more information about GreenLaw, please visit: www.greenlaw.org

CRBI – Annual River Reverly

Carvalho & Associates is pleased to annouce its support to the Coosa River Basin Initiative as a Sponsor and Committe Host for the 2014 Annual River Revelry held in Rome, GA. River Revelry. A Biodiversity Bash has historically included about as many events as the Upper Coosa has endemic aquatic species (30, for the record). River Revelry 2013 carries on that tradition. This year River Revelry will serve as a “confluence” for multiple events that will converge on Heritage Park for what’s sure to be a rip-roaring good time.

CRBI is a 501(c)(3) grassroots environmental organization based in Rome, Georgia with the mission of informing and empowering citizens to protect, preserve and restore North America’s most biologically diverse river basin. Since 1992, our staff, board and members have served as advocates for the wise stewardship of the natural resources of the Upper Coosa River basin, or watershed, which stretches from southeastern Tennessee and north central Georgia to Weiss Dam in Northeast Alabama. This includes the Coosa River, the Etowah and Oostanaula rivers and the tributaries of these waterways as well as the land drained by these streams and the air that surrounds this land area.

A member of the international Waterkeeper Alliance, CRBI is also known as the Upper Coosa Riverkeeper. As such, they work to enforce the Clean Water Act, by monitoring pollution and polluters. When pollution problems are identified we use all means necessary, including legal action, to correct these problems.

As a member of the Georgia Water Coalition and Alabama Rivers Alliance, CRBI works to influence water resource policy in both Georgia and Alabama so that clean and plentiful water is available today and for future generations. CRBI works in four program areas: advocacy, education, water monitoring and restoration. Our two staff members, 15-member Board of Directors and 6-member Advisory Board direct the efforts of CRBI’s more than 800 members.

For more information about CRBI, please visit: www.coosa.org