The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection holds "listening hearings" for feedback from communities, while it sues two townships fighting the oil and gas industry.
The Athens News: Athens County, OH, residents advance community rights charter initiative
Athens County, OH, residents pursue third-year effort to advance community rights and ban fracking activities in the face of continued state efforts to block them.
Desmog: Oregon County Faces Gas Industry Funding, Lobbyists in Battle to Halt Jordan Cove LNG Project
The battle against big money is on in Coos County, OR. With support for industry coming from the White House, Coos residents are up against…
The World: Industry donates enormous funds to defeat community rights measure
Oil and gas industry donates more than $300,000 to defeat Coos County, OR, residents' Right to a Sustainable Energy Future Ordinance.
Earth Island Journal: When Rivers Hold Legal Rights
The first steps towards recognizing the rights of rivers to exist and flourish are taken in New Zealand and India, advancing the growing movement to…
The Huffington Post: They Told A Fracking Company To Go Away. 3 Years Later, They’re Still in Court.
The story of one small community's fierce fight against the oil and gas industry, using community rights with CELDF and spearheading a movement.
The Bradford Era: Highland’s water provider seeks to protect community water rights
Highland Township, PA's, Water Authority files to intervene in a federal lawsuit to protect the community's right to water. Township Supervisors are attempting to give…
Mint Press News: PA Dept. of Environmental Protection Sues Towns Over Fracking Ban
Residents of Grant and Highland Townships, PA, continue the fight to protect themselves from a frack wastewater injection well. Joining the fight against them: the…
The Indiana Gazette: Grant Twp, PA, residents plan local action to protect their water from injection well
Community rights advocates in Grant Township, PA, continue their stand to protect their water from a frack wastewater injection well.
The Christian Science Monitor: An Indian court says glaciers and rivers are ‘living entities.’ Could the same approach work in the US?
From India, Ecuador, and Bolivia, to communities in the U.S., growing numbers of people are advancing nature's rights and protecting ecosystems.
Pipeline foes talk protest
More than 50 people attend the Communities Rising Tour in Medina County, OH, discussing what needs to happen to protect themselves from the proposed Nexus…
Grass-roots groups prepare to dig in deeper against Nexus pipeline
The OH/PA Communities Rising Tour stops in Medina County, OH, where residents face the Nexus pipeline and are organizing using Community Rights to stop it.
PR: First Right to Climate Law Passes in Colorado
Lafayette, CO, is the first community in the state to adopt a right to climate ordinance, recognizing the right of residents to a healthy climate.
Communities take action when their government fails them: Community Rights in PA/OH
Environmental activists, leaders, and residents are touring Pennsylvania and Ohio, sharing what they are doing in the face of the corporate state attempting to force…
PR: India Court Declares “Personhood” of Glaciers and Ecosystems
The High Court of Uttarakhand at Naintal in northern India issues a ruling declaring that glaciers and ecosystems have the rights of persons.
Blog: Colorado Fracking “Win:” Redefining Victory
Colorado youth gained a win with the recent Court of Appeals decision regarding the COGCC and fracking permits. But how far does that win go?
For economic and environmental sustainability, we need to govern ourselves
A Coos County, OR, resident calls out local officials supporting the oil and gas industry, rather than supporting residents in building long term economic and…
In These Times: Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection Sues Towns for Trying to Protect Their Environment
It doesn't get any clearer than this: our own environmental regulatory agencies suing communities who dare to protect the environment by banning fracking activities. Is…
KBOO: Rights-based ban on pesticide spraying in Lincoln Co, OR, is on May ballot
Seeking to elevate environmental rights over corporate "rights," Lincoln Co, OR, residents will vote on a ban on aerial pesticide spraying in May.
PennLive: Outrage and localism after state sues towns that banned frack water wells
Residents of Grant and Highland Townships, PA, are outraged by the Dept. of Environmental Protection's lawsuits against them for rights-based laws banning frack waste injections…
PR: The Corporate State of Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection sues Townships with Community Rights Home Rule Charters to force in fracking injection wells.
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