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Press Releases & Blogs
News from the CELDF headquarters, press releases, and blogs.PR: Spokane Arrestees Sue U.S. Government: Seek to Overturn Federal Preemption of Local Control Over Coal and Oil Trains
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Community Wires
Keep up to date with the communities and groups that CELDF partners with around the world.All is not Well in Grant Township
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In The News
News coverage and posts related to CELDF and the issues we work on, from across the internet.Thom Hartmann Program: Civil Disobedience Just Became a Civic Duty
Recent Posts
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Blog: A Fundamentally Humanizing Agenda
President Trump wants a crackdown on people experiencing homelessness. It’s time, instead, for a humanizing agenda, such as that advanced by Denver residents this year.
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Media Release: First Rights of Nature legislation introduced in Australia
The first Rights of Nature legislation is introduced in Australia, into the Western Australia Parliament. CELDF’s International Center for the Rights of Nature assisted in drafting the law.
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Scalawag: Progressive wins in Virginia are limited as long as “Dillon’s Rule” is on the books
Regardless of political gains by Democrats in Virginia, residents still do not have authority to govern themselves in their own communities. Here’s why – and what communities can do about it.
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Media Statement: Settlement Announced with Oil and Gas Industry Seeking Monetary Award: Ban Against Injection Wells Continues
Following settlement of one of the lawsuits against Grant Township, PA, for daring to protect its water from a frack wastewater injection well, the township continues to stand up to the oil and gas industry.
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Rights of Nature Series
Learn about the Lake Erie Bill of Rights at this presentation by CELDF’s Ohio organizer Tish O’Dell.
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Press Release: Election 2019: Corporations Are Determining What Gets Voted On
Efforts are growing to not only determine how people vote, but what gets voted on. Your ballot measures are not yours to democratically determine.
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High Country News: In Oregon, the fight for local control upends Western norms
Lincoln County residents continue their fight to protect themselves and ecosystems from aerial sprayed pesticides, and spark not only hope, but tangible strategies for advancing rights.
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Great Lakes Water Conference
Check out CELDF and OHCRN partner attorney Terry Lodge at this conference on the Lake Erie Bill of Rights.
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CELDF’s co-founder Thomas Linzey on the Fallon Forum
Listen in on this conversation with Thomas Linzey about the evolution and acceleration of the Rights of Nature and Community Rights movements.
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Screening of Invisible Hand in Ashtabula, Ohio
Join Ashtabula residents and CELDF’s Tish O’Dell for the documentary Invisible Hand, as residents explore Community Rights and Rights of Nature to protect their community.
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Press Release: Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Attacks 4-Year-Old Community Water Protection Law
The people’s own Department of Environmental Protection in Pennsylvania sues Grant Township to overturn a democratically enacted Home Rule charter that includes a ban on fracking wastewater injection wells. This was their day in court.
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Media Statement: Florida Democrats Adopt Rights of Nature in Party Platform
As Rights of Nature continues to gain traction, Florida Democrats incorporate this paradigm shift into their party platform.
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Cleveland.com: Letter To The Editor: Talk to the people of Toledo about the increasingly poor health of Lake Erie
An Ohio resident makes clear that it is state government itself that is driving forward polluting Lake Erie. The state is even joining a lawsuit to overturn the Lake Erie Bill of Rights while permitting four factory farms.
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Oregon Coast Today: A life of politics and peace
Meet Maria Sause, and her life and commitment to Community Rights in Lincoln County, where residents are fighting a recent court decision to overturn their rights-based ban on aerial pesticide spraying.