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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009Nearly a year ago I posted about the environmental sanctions law approved by Colombia’s congress. What I didn’t know at the time of posting was that a week later the Executive Branch would raise formal objections to the law — essentially an attempt at a line-item veto. The Senate and Chamber of Deputies refused in […]
Peru Passes Environmental Enforcement Law / Perú aprobó ley de fiscalización ambiental
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009The Peruvian Congress has approved the Law of the National System of Environmental Assessment and Control (Sistema Nacional de Evaluación y Fiscalización Ambiental – SINEFA), which aims to ensure compliance with environmental laws. At the heart of the SINEFA is the Environmental Evaluation and Control Organism (Organismo de Evaluación y Fiscalización Ambiental – OFEA) created […]
Update: Colombian Eco-Authorities Now Have Sharp Teeth?
Friday, August 8th, 2008Last year I did a post about Colombia’s Environment Minister, Juan Lozano Ramírez, calling upon that country’s Senate to finally give environmental authorities “teeth” — a true, tough environmental sanctions regime. Proposals for such a law had been before the national legislature for years (Lozano says it’s been decades). A few weeks ago the legislature […]
Eco-Authorities Need Teeth, Says Environment Minister
Thursday, May 17th, 2007Earlier this week Colombia’s Environment Minister, Juan Lozano Ramírez, told the audience at that country’s National Environment Forum that he supported the bill now before the Senate (where the Forum was held) on an environmental sanctions regime. The Ministry, he said, has this dream of “getting the teeth we don’t have” so that Colombia can […]