Grant Township, PA, residents will vote this week on becoming a home rule township through a rights-based charter. The charter establishes the residents' rights to…
Common Dreams: Preempting Democracy: What’s Not Being Voted on This November Is Sinister
State preemptive action to quash local initiatives that are advancing environmental and worker rights are multiplying - and may be the catalyst for rights-based efforts…
East Boulder County United: CELDF Building New Structure of Law
In our culture, sustainability is illegal. CELDF is working with communities across the country to change that.
In These Times: A Bill of Rights That Puts Workers Above Corporations
With union and labor backing, as well as endorsements from local groups and nationally renowned Noam Chomsky, Spokane, WA's, Worker Bill of Rights charter amendment…
KXLY.com: What Prop 1 means for Spokane residents, businesses
Residents supporting the Worker Bill of Rights in Spokane, WA, call out fear tactics used to dissuade voters, and press forward with their efforts to…
The Post: Op-Ed: Ohio University professor hopes people will attend environmental speaker in November
The rate of climate change demands urgent action. Athens, OH, resident and professor urges community members attend a November 13th event: CELDF's Thomas Linzey speaking…
The Southern Illinoisan: Group plans to keep pushing community bill of rights
Jackson County, IL, residents doggedly pursue a Community Bill of Rights ordinance banning fracking and protecting their rights to clean air, water, and local self-government,…
DeSmog Blog: Communities Pushing For Legal Rights To Regain Power Over Fracking Companies
As the fracking industry pushes into communities against the will of the people, growing numbers of communities across the U.S. are using community rights in…
Sentinel Source: Citizens can’t rely on state laws for protection
New Hampshire resident and attorney Lorraine Hansen decries the state and federal regulatory system as a means to protect people and the environment from harmful…
TruthDig: Death by Fracking
Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges speaks to fracking as one of myriad harms destroying communities and ecosystems; the uselessness of our environmental laws; the incestuous…
Eye on Ohio: Ohio Supreme Court rules against anti-fracking ballot measures
Reporter Simon Davis-Cohen provides in-depth reporting on state and industry efforts to keep fracking and pipeline initiatives off the ballot in Ohio - including the…
State Impact: Federal court rejects township’s waste water disposal ban
While a federal judge finds in favor of the oil and gas industry to force frack wastewater into Grant Township, PA, the decision also reveals…
Huffington Post: Epic Change — Part 1
Kenny Ausubel of Bioneers sees a colossal awakening happening as climate change forces human behavioral shifts. Under our current structure of law, however, sustainability is…
NCRN Press Release: National Community Rights Network Endorses the Youngstown Community Bill of Rights Charter Amendment
NCRN endorses Youngstown, OH's Community Bill of Rights Charter Amendment. The initiative advances the rights of residents and prohibits fracking activities that would violate community…
Press Release: Grant Township, PA: The People Left Out of Court Decision
A U.S. District Court finds in favor of corporations to site a frack wastewater injection well in Grant Township, PA - ignoring the will and…
Chad Nicholson of CELDF speaks in Potter County, PA
CELDF's Chad Nicholson presents on community rights in Potter County, PA, where residents face fracking.
New Hampshire Union Leader: Developer says Newfound-area wind plant still on track
A Portuguese energy company edges forward on harmful industrial wind projects in towns in New Hampshire. Residents are determined to decide for themselves what projects…
The World: Coos County community rights group driven to ‘legalize sustainability’
CELDF's Thomas Linzey spoke to Coos County, OR, residents, who are advancing a Community Bill of Rights sustainability ordinance to stop an export terminal and…
New Hampshire Union Leader: Network finds legislative sponsor for local land rights amendment
Representative Susan Emerson in the New Hampshire legislature introduces a CELDF-drafted community rights state constitutional amendment, brought forward by the New Hampshire Community Rights Network.
EcoWatch: This Pennsylvania Community Is Determined to Ban GMOs and Pesticides
Lancaster County, PA, residents recognize it's not enough to label GMO food. They want to ban it. Using community rights, residents are organizing to assert…
The Calvert Recorder: LNG project opponents drafting ‘Community Bill of Rights’
Calvert County, MD, residents are working with CELDF to draft a Community Bill of Rights to protect themselves from future harmful corporate projects, such as…
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