Legal Response
Author Walter Van Tilburg Clark said that law, the code
of justice, is the essence of our sensations of right
and wrong, and the conscience of society (full
excerpt).
When the leaders of governments and heads of corporations
lack conscience, we must rely upon the law to restrain
their behavior. Large mining entities are well funded
and seemingly inclined to press their advantage, and
our business friendly government is even facilitating
environmental incursions by small scale mining operations
which employ environmentally unsound techniques. Sometimes
the best response is legal.
 Enter the attorneys at Western Mining Action Project.
Now in its thirteenth year, WMAP is a non-profit environmental
law center providing free legal services to grass-roots
organizations and Native Americans on mining issues and
cases in the West. WMAP enables these groups to effectively
challenge individual destructive mining proposals in
their communities, and works with the groups to reform
state and federal mining laws and regulations to increase
environmental and human resource protection. Part of
greenKarat’s revenue is earmarked for the benefit
of this remarkable organization.
We were surprised at the number of issues being handled
by WMAP, and you may be, too. We invite you to take a
look at a sample of the important work they do: "WMAP
2006 Summary of Work.”
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