The Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide is working with partners around the world to take a critical step toward protecting the climate: Stopping the burning of coal…While some countries have moved past coal, in others utilities and coal companies are pushing hard to burn more coal…ELAW’s team of lawyers and scientists helps local advocates make the case against coal and promote cleaner energy sources…ELAW partners in South Africa are developing legal strategies to stop…coal mining in the province of Mpumalanga, which is the source of a large proportion of South Africa’s fresh water…Building coal plants now will lock us into years of mining and burning coal, with devastating impacts on air quality and the climate. If we can expose the true costs of outdated coal and hold off construction of new coal plants, other energy sources will make coal obsolete…