Environment Activist Tundy Rodney Tarn has proposed the setting-up of a special Environmental Court and demonstration of political will by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as major undertaking to address the prevailing and uncontrollable environmental crisis across the country. Speaking in an exclusive interview with In-profile Daily reporter, Mr. Tarn said the 2001 Act establishing the EPA calls for the setting-up of an Environmental Court to timely and properly dispose environmental cases and violators. The Climate and Environmental Protection Initiative of Liberia Executive Director added that Liberia is experiencing unprecedented flooding and others environmental issues due to the lacked of Environmental Court, political will and adequate climate awareness across the country. He believes that with Political will and setting-up of the Environmental Court and adequate climate awareness Liberia cam make significant gain in improving the country sanitation and hygiene as well as environmental and climate protection. “Under the EPA Act, it states that there should be Environmental Court. The environmental court needs to be setup. The EPA Act was established 2001 and since then, the Environmental court has not beige setups. Also, we need stronger political will and adequate climate change awareness across the country to address the climate issues we are facing today” Mr. Tarn stated. He lamented that recently, his group visited the Dolokan Community in Congo Town, Peace Island, and the 72nd Boulevard Road to conduct climate awareness and they discovered that people are in flagrant violation and disregard to the EPA law. The environmental activist added that from their tour, they discovered that even medical facilities are taking waste from their facilities and publicly disposing them in the community. Also, he pointed out that they saw places where people are destroying EPA symbol that talks about protection of the swamp, they break down those symbol and construct, backfilled and construct homes in those wetlands thereby depleting the mangrove. ” So, from what all we saw, the first and foremost to move Liberia forwards to combat climate change, you need the political will to handle issue’s about waste, sanitation and environmental protection. The EPA director and the government needs the political will and the Law enforcement agencies need to back the EPA up,” Mr. Tarn urged. He further indicated that whenever rich companies are in violation and fine by the EPA, they run to the Supreme Court’s which is a good thing, but he said that it’s so sadden that some of those justices don’t have degree in environmental science and neither a specialization in Environmental Law. ” With the setting-up of the Environmental Court, it helps the EPA to ensure that those presiding over those cases are train in that area. Due to the specialization they have in that area, it helps the case to be properly and timely disposed. We know how our court system is. When we have the court, we can mitigate those environmental issues affecting us and whenever someone has issues, the EPA can fine those people and they go to court and the case can be address timely,” he stressed.