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- Community Rights
- Rights of Nature
  Champion the Rights of Nature
  CELDF is pioneering the work for rights of ecosystems – or the “rights of nature” – working with communities and states across the U.S., and in countries around the world, to develop rights-based legal frameworks to protect the environment.
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- Worker Rights
  Worker Rights
  Wealth disparity is increasing in the U.S., while workers endure low wages; unequal pay based on gender, race, sexual orientation, and other factors; and firings for unjust cause.
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- Democratic Rights
  Democratic Rights
  CELDF is partnering with grassroots and statewide groups to confront the many barriers that are being erected by corporations and government to restrict our democratic rights, and our ability to protect people, workers, communities and the environment.
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- Corporate “Rights”
  Corporate "Rights"
  The structure of federal and state law – both statutory and constitutional – empowers corporations to override local democratic decision making. The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund has assisted the first communities in the United States to eliminate corporate "rights" at the municipal level.
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- Key Issues
  - Chemical Trespass
    Chemical Trespass
    Chemical trespass occurs when people and the natural environment are harmed by chemical agents that are forced into communities - and CELDF is helping the first communities in the country to stop it. Learn more about chemical trespass, how communities are organizing to ban it, and what you can do in your community.
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  - Factory Farms
    Factory Farms
    CELDF has assisted the first communities in the U.S. to prohibit factory farming and other industrial agricultural practices. Learn here about the perils of factory farming, how communities are organizing to stop them, and what you can do in your own community.
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  - Fracking
    Fracking
    Fracking is spreading across the U.S. - and CELDF has assisted the first communities in the U.S. to ban it. Learn here about the harms caused by fracking, how communities are organizing to stop them, and what you can do in your community.
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  - Mining
    Mining
    CELDF helps communities facing industrial mining operations, which threaten the environmental, economic, and civil rights of communities. Learn here about the dangers of mining, and what you can do in your community.
    Learn more about Mining…
  - Pipelines
    Pipelines
    CELDF is helping the first communities in the country to prohibit pipelines. Read here about the dangers of pipelines, the ways in which communities are organizing to stop them, and what you can do in your community.
    Learn more about Pipelines…
  - Retail Chains
    Retail Chains
    Everyone loves a good deal, right? But what are those low, low prices really costing you and your community? CELDF helps communities threatened by big retail chains. Read here about their harms, and what you can do in your community.
    Learn more about Retail Chains…
  - Sewage Sludge
    Sewage Sludge
    Sewage sludge is a dangerous solid waste product that is spread on farm fields - and CELDF has assisted the first communities in the U.S. to ban it. Learn about the perils of sewage sludge, how communities are organizing to stop it, and what you can do in your community.
    Learn more about Sewage Sludge…
  - Unsustainable Agriculture
    Unsustainable Agriculture
    Unsustainable agriculture is devastating communities' land, health, and economies - and CELDF is helping them to stop it. Read here about the harms caused by unsustainable agriculture, how communities are organizing to stop them, and what you can do in your community.
    Learn more about Unsustainable Agriculture…
  - Unsustainable Energy
    Unsustainable Energy
    CELDF has assisted the first communities in the U.S. to prohibit unsustainable energy projects, including harmful transmission towers and energy transportation corridors. Learn here about harms from unsustainable energy projects, how communities are organizing to stop them, and what you can do in your community.
    Learn more about Unsustainable Energy…
  - Water Privatization
    Water Privatization
    Water is life - yet corporations are taking communities' water for profit. CELDF has assisted the first communities in the U.S. to prohibit water privatization. Learn here about the harms from privatizing our water, how communities are organizing to stop them, and what you can do in your own community.
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Posted on August 1, 2018Updated on April 10, 2019

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