The story of Waterville, OH, residents, taking their health and safety into their own hands, and banning Spectra Energy's Nexus pipeline as a violation of…
Sentinel-Tribune: By unanimous vote, BG council rejects easement for Nexus pipeline project
A huge crowd of residents from Bowling Green and beyond gather to show their overwhelming support of City Council members to vote against an easement…
Blog: Fracking Resistance in the UK
The British are fighting to protect their communities from fracking, as we are in the U.S. We share a common history: the claimed rights of…
Ryan Talbott Joins CELDF Board of Directors
Ryan Talbott, an environmental lawyer, joins the Board of Directors of CELDF.
From Waterville to Youngstown: A Tale of Two Ohio Cities Fighting to Protect Themselves
Waterville, OH, residents adopt a Community Bill of Rights Charter Amendment banning Spectra Energy's pipeline and compressor station. Youngstown residents are a beacon, refusing to…
Raising the Stakes in Grant Township, PA
The oil and gas industry in Pennsylvania threatens to criminalize elected officials protecting their communities from fracking activities. Grant Township Supervisors are undaunted and refuse…
2016: A Year in Review
What an amazing year - from Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New Hampshire, to Washington and Oregon, people are growing Community Rights and protecting their communities from…
Harper’s Magazine: Class Takeover
It's not just water that's privatized and stripped from local control. Youngstown, OH's education system has been seized from the public and put into private…
Blog: The Police State Policing Police. How’s That Been Working for You?
We live in a corporatized police state. Violence to protect property and suppress people is condoned by the power elite. Rather than pleading for the…
The Blade: B.G. council to decide on pipeline offer
About 100 people attended a Bowling Green, OH, City Council meeting. Residents urged council members to refuse easement access to Spectra Energy for a pipeline…
Blog: Propertied Privilege Trumps Democracy
Upset with the Electoral College and disturbed by the implications of who was elected President? Let's look a little deeper and see what's really going…
The Gazette: “We the People 2.0” documentary shows similar struggles to opposition to NEXUS pipeline
The Nexus Pipeline threatens Medina County, OH, residents. Medina residents gather to watch We the People 2.0, a documentary about communities across the U.S. facing…
Blog: Government Checks and Balances, and the Trump Suit
Trump ideology is poised to take over all three branches of government. And yet the fundamental and powerful principal of government's purpose - to protect…
Kane Republican: Township referendum question causes ad campaign onslaught
As Highland Township, PA, residents prefer to vote on their rights-based Home Rule Charter to protect themselves against a frack wastewater injection well, Seneca Resources…
CELDF Blog: From Absurd and Far-Fetched to Inalienable
As the predictable self-destruction of this culture of deceit and greed proceeds and accelerates, CELDF’s recommendations for change will become less "far-fetched" and "absurd." They…
The Investigative Fund: Big Oil and Gas Take Aim at Ballot Initiative Process in Colorado
In Colorado and Ohio, the oil and gas industry maneuvers to keep citizen initiatives threatening fracking off the ballot. In Colorado, the industry has advanced…
Salon: What’s not being voted on this November: Local democracy is being squashed from coast to coast
Simon Davis-Cohen reveals escalating efforts to quash We the People from exercising our right to initiative. From fracking and water protection, to minimum wage and…
The Gazette: NEXUS route changes, concerns discussed
While the Nexus pipeline has been re-routed, it's simply sacrificing another community in Medina County, Ohio. Residents meet to learn what's happening and what they…
The Blade: Protect children by passing issue 3
In a letter-to-the-editor, Waterville resident urges support for the community's rights-based initiative banning the Nexus pipeline and compressor station, and exercising their right to democratic…
Truthout: Democracy Deferred: Ohio Removes Anti-Fracking Measures From County Ballots
In Ohio and elsewhere, when democracy threatens the oil and gas industry, those occupying our legal and governing structures take liberty in interpreting the law…
The Blade: Nexus is a bad deal for Waterville
A Waterville, OH, residents speaks up on a compressor station: "If our political leaders will not protect our children, then we the people must pass…
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