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Press Releases & Blogs
News from the CELDF headquarters, press releases, and blogs.Breaking: Grant Township Forces Pennsylvania to Revoke Injection Well Permit
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Community Wires
Keep up to date with the communities and groups that CELDF partners with around the world.Common Dreams: Abolish Earth Day
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In The News
News coverage and posts related to CELDF and the issues we work on, from across the internet.CELDF on the Daily Show: The Fight to Turn Lake Erie into a Person
Recent Posts
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Beyond Earth Day
We invite you to join us for a three-part Earth Day webinar Q&A series as we facilitate honest and open conversations about the shortcomings and compromises of Environmental Activism and how we can be empowered to move Beyond Earth Day.
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Virtual Democracy School: Snohomish County
Register today for this virtual Democracy School for Snohomish County!
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Invisible Hand Screening and Live Q&A: Cincinnati
Join us for a free film screening of the Rights of Nature documentary – Invisible Hand – followed by a Live Q&A with CELDF organizers.
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Invisible Hand Screening and Live Q&A: Florida
Join us for a free film screening of the Rights of Nature documentary – Invisible Hand – followed by a Live Q&A with CELDF organizers.
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For All to See: Bias of New Hampshire Judiciary Exposed in Rights of Nature, Healthy Climate Proceedings
In 2019, Nottingham residents passed a Freedom from Chemical Trespass Ordinance securing the rights of ecosystems and of townspeople to a “climate system capable of sustaining human societies.” Now New Hampshire courts have sided with corporations who infringe on those rights, revealing a pattern of bias embedded within the New Hampshire judiciary.
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Virtual Democracy School – Grand Island, New York
Register today for this virtual Democracy School in New York!
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Public Interest Environmental Law Conference Panel
The Public Interest Environmental Law Conference is the premier annual gathering for environmentalists worldwide and is distinguished as the oldest and largest of its kind. Attend this panel on Rights of Nature and Community Rights.
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Protect the Protectors: Stop Line 3
Tribal nations, community and environmental groups in Minnesota have fought to stop the Line 3 Enbridge pipeline in Northern Minnesota. The pipeline violates several treaties with the Ojibwe people that establish their right to hunt, fish, and gather along the proposed route. The pipeline would cross 200 bodies of water, including the Mississippi River twice.
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Environmental Justice & the Cost of Our Water
Participate in a meaningful and dynamic conversation around public health and the cost of water.
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Oregon: Community Rights Amendment Informational Session
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Common Dreams: Biden’s Executive Order on Climate Crisis Exposes Need for Constitutional Change
Demands to abolish the Electoral College and restructure the U.S. Supreme Court can be pegged to substantive constitutional change. It’s the role of movements to demand and make changes to the “applicable law,” and its interpretation.
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Rights of Nature, the Southern Resident Orcas, and the Salish Sea