Rolling Stone Magazine covers the story of Grant Township, PA, where the residents are working with CELDF to protect themselves from PGE’s fracking injection well. In the process, together, we’re pioneering a new legal framework for rights.

Join CELDF’s Tish O’Dell and Ohio attorney Terry Lodge at the National Lawyers Guild Mideast Conference to learn about the legal barriers that contain our activism, and what communities are doing about it!

Grant Township, PA, is being sued by their own Dept of Environmental Protection to force in a fracking wastewater injection well. CELDF filed a countersuit on behalf of the Township, asserting the DEP is violating the rights of the community and the Charter.

CELDF’s International Center for the Rights of Nature is joining with the Myrin Institute and the Tulane University Law School to hold the first U.S. Rights of Nature Symposium on October 27th. Save the date!

Two community rights measures were on the Oregon ballot this week to stop corporate harms, and more coming down the pipe. Growing numbers of Oregon residents are using community rights to protect themselves and assert democratic rights.

CELDF’s Community Organizer Chad Nicholson is interviewed about We the People 2.0, exploring how communities across the U.S. are fighting corporate harms and asserting their democratic and environmental rights.

The relationship between animal well-being, human beings, and the rights of nature is explored by CELDF’s Mari Margil as part of a panel discussion this Saturday. Join us!

CELDF’s Mari Margil is part of a panel at the Vine Deloria, Jr., annual conference, speaking on the relationship between ecosystem and indigenous rights.

A Community Bill of Rights by the people of Lincoln Co, OR, is just ahead at the polls. Residents are fighting for their democratic and environmental rights to protect themselves from toxic aerial spraying of pesticides.

As election day approaches, a foreign corporation and its allies spend over $1 million to defeat a local rights-based measure banning a massive LNG export terminal.

A Canadian company attempting to force in a LNG export terminal and pipeline in Coos County, OR, irks residents, who are voting on a community rights ordinance banning the project tomorrow.

Corporate interests pour funds into defeating a Coos County, OR, community rights measure. The citizen’s initiative bans the Jordan Cove LNG export project as a violation of environmental and democratic rights.

Cliff Wilmeng calls for Boulder County, CO, commissioners to stop politicking and start protecting; stop colluding by doing nothing and start acting courageously by enacting community rights.

Veresen Corporation spends more than $300,000 to defeat Coos County, OR’s, community rights campaign. If adopted, the initiative would stop the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal. Residents are fighting to protect their environmental rights.