ELI’s submission to the Water Services Authority (Taumata Arowai) on a set of proposed wastewater environmental performance standards (wastewater standards) under section 138 of the Water Services Act 2021.

The Environmental Law Initiative is taking the Minister of Oceans and Fisheries to court over the Hector’s and Māui Dolphin Threat Management Plan, saying it fails to adequately protect the dolphins from being killed by fishing.  

“Māui and Hector’s dolphins were once the most common dolphins in New Zealand waters until their rapid decline due to fishing-related deaths,” says ELI’s director, research and legal, Dr Matt Hall.

ELI’s submission on Westland Mineral Sands Co. Ltd’s resource consent applications for its Heavy Mineral Sands Mining Operation, Mananui Mineral Sand Mining.

The National Party's proposed bill, which would outlaw the public from taking climate change litigation, is a dangerous attack on legal rights and our collective ability to take action on climate change.

We challenged DOC’s decisions to grant a permit and a consent authorising the incidental killing of wildlife during the Mt Messenger bypass project, and we won.

ELI’s submission to the Department of Conservation on the Modernising Conservation Land Management proposals.

High Court finds Environment Southland failed to act against huge wetland losses. 

High Court victory for Environmental Law Initiative and Northland hapū in fisheries case. 

ELI’s submission on the Resource Management Act (Consenting and Other Systems changes) Amendment Bill.

ELI’s submission to the Environmental Protection Authority’s proposal to ban chlorpyrifos. Chlorpyrifos is an insecticide used to control a broad range of insect pests on plants. ELI supports the EPA’s proposal to revoke all approvals for chlorpyrifos-containing substances.

ELI’s submission to Fisheries NZ’s review of sustainability measures for spiny rock lobster (crayfish) for the area known as CRA 2, which covers the Hauraki Gulf.