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A New Phase
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund was founded as a conventional environmental law firm (phase one). As it discovered how regulatory law is fixed to…
Living in the COVID Era
Since a national emergency was called in the United States in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, corporate interests—and politicians doing their bidding—have engaged in aggressive…
Susquehanna, Vol. 22, Issue 1
CELDF, our partner communities, and allies made remarkable advancements in Community Rights and Rights of Nature this year. Together—despite corporate and state level efforts to…
PR: Highland Township Bans Injection Wells, Rebukes Corporate Rule
Highland Township, PA, voters step up their fight to protect themselves from a frack wastewater injection well, adopting a rights-based Home Rule Charter banning the…
PR: Youngstown Residents: Unshakable Determination as They Look Ahead to Next Community Bill of Rights
The might of the oil and gas industry and its allies were out in force, outspending residents enormously in today's election to defeat the people's…

PR: Waterville Residents Ban Pipelines and Compressor Stations through Adopting Community Bill of Rights
Waterville, OH, residents make clear the Nexus pipeline and compressor station will not cut through their community, overwhelmingly adopting a Community Bill of Rights Charter…
Tree Media Presents We the People 2.0 – The Second American Revolution
Tree Media releases the trailer for the film We the People 2.0, featuring CELDF. Check it out here.