ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      This report was produced by the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), Ohio Citizen Action (OCA), and Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC), which constitute the U.S. team of the Access Initiative. Many people contributed to this summary, including Carl Bruch, Dorigen Fried, and Sarah King from ELI; Simona Vaclavikova from OCA; and Michael Stanley-Jones and Leslie Byster from SVTC. Shari Weir (Citizens Policy Center), Karen Arnett (Environmental Community Organization), Paul Orum (Working Group on Community Right-to-Know), Amy Hui (Environmental Justice Coalition for Water), and Jay Pendergrass (ELI) reviewed earlier drafts of this report. Olga Meydbray (SVTC), Tim Hayes (Interactive Health Ecology Access Links), Geoff Brosseau (Bay Area Clean Water Agencies), and Peter Melhus (Silicon Valley Environmental Partnership) contributed their research and insights. Elena Petkova and Fran Irwin of World Resources Institute provided invaluable guidance and inspiration.
      The Access Initiative is a global coalition of public interest groups led by Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE, Uganda) Corporación Participa (Chile), Environmental Management and Law Association (EMLA, Hungary), Thailand Environment Institute (TEI, Thailand), and World Resources Institute (WRI, United States), collaborating to promote national-level implementation of commitments to access to information, participation, and justice in environmental decision-making. For more information on The Access Initiative, please visit http://www.accessinitiative.org.
      Unless otherwise noted, views, interpretations, and findings represented herein are those of the authors and do not represent The Access Initiative or the reviewers.