EMLA is routinely interviewed on environmental issues of local, national, and international concern. For instance, as the new Act on Waste Management was adopted by the Hungarian Parliament, two newspapers, the Budapest Sun and the NRC Handelsblad of Holland, spoke with EMLA about the nature of the new law and its possible and probable impacts on future waste management situations in Hungary.

EMLA gave interviews and provided background information for articles appearing in a wide range of publications including Népszabadság (Hungary's widest circulating daily), Népszava (a liberal leaning daily), Blikk (a tabloid), Magyar Nemzet (a conservative leaning daily), and Cash Flow (a commercial monthly). Our cases and projects, of course, often appear in the press without specific mention of our name.

EMLA translated the UNEP book entitled "Pachamama," which aims to generate interest in the environment among preteens. The book will be published in Hungarian with the full compliment of photos and drawings contained in the original version.

This year EMLA was interviewed over a half a dozen times for the environmental portion of the evening news on Kossuth Radio, the Hungarian national station. We also went on the air with Radio Fix, a non-commercial radio station, for open discussion on environmental issues and fielding of questions from listeners. EMLA got word out to the public on environmental and legal issues by visual medium as well. As in past years, we had a segment that ran twice a week on the ATV television station’s "Walks in Law" program for part of the year. DUNA TV came to EMLA and filmed EMLA Foundation students working in the field to produce a feature for the program "Some Green Under My Feet."

EMLA Executive Director Sándor Fülöp participated in Ward, Kershaw, and Minton's annual Environmental Law Symposium in Baltimore, Maryland as a featured speaker. His topic was "Making Public Participation a System." In spite of being the final speaker of the day, he succeeded in sparking audience interest with his talk on the interpretation of the Aarhus Convention text. Sándor was approached by an audience member whose organization later asked EMLA to write a chapter on the public's right to information around mining issues for a major worldwide project on mining and sustainable development.

EMLA was asked to present on various topics in several venues. We spoke to the Hungarian National Academy of Sciences' Social Research Institute concerning environmental conflicts; the Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundation on PRTR in Hungary; the Ökotárs ("Eco- partnership" Hungarian NGO) on interactive health and ecology access links; the IHEAL Workshop on PRTR at the Healthy Planet Forum in London; the OPEL auto company lecture on environmental responsibilities; the French Natural Environment (FNE) Conference on sustainable development in Dole, France; the Environment & Development Publisher training session on environmental duties of municipalities; and to several other groups and organizations throughout the year.