Grant Township, PA, residents refuse to accept a federal judge's ruling in favor of a fracking corporation that wants to site an injection well. Instead,…
Press Release: Youngstown Residents Just Shy of Codifying Community Rights
Youngstown, OH, community rights supporters came within 345 votes of adopting their rights-based charter amendment banning fracking, and are ready to press forward.
Common Dreams: No Longer Willing to be Bullied and Fracked, How One Pennsylvania Town Fought Back
Grant Township is the first community in the U.S. to draft and adopt their municipal charter based entirely on community rights. In so doing, they…
Press Release: Despite Court Ruling, Grant Township Bans Fracking Injection Wells Again, Through Municipal Charter
The people of Grant Township, PA, adopt the first rights-based charter in the country banning frack wastewater injection wells, two weeks after a federal judge…
The Vindicator: Community Bill of Rights supporters gather at lounge
Youngstown, OH, residents supporting a Community Bill of Rights charter amendment banning fracking, recognize that regardless of election results, their advancing of rights is building…
The World: Power in the hands of the people
Coos County, OR, resident urges a rejection of projects with short term benefit and long term environmental and economic harm. Instead, the Coos County Sustainable…
The Indiana Gazette: Grant Township voters to decide on home rule charter
Grant Township, PA, residents will vote this week on becoming a home rule township through a rights-based charter. The charter establishes the residents' rights to…
Common Dreams: Preempting Democracy: What’s Not Being Voted on This November Is Sinister
State preemptive action to quash local initiatives that are advancing environmental and worker rights are multiplying - and may be the catalyst for rights-based efforts…
In These Times: A Bill of Rights That Puts Workers Above Corporations
With union and labor backing, as well as endorsements from local groups and nationally renowned Noam Chomsky, Spokane, WA's, Worker Bill of Rights charter amendment…
KXLY.com: What Prop 1 means for Spokane residents, businesses
Residents supporting the Worker Bill of Rights in Spokane, WA, call out fear tactics used to dissuade voters, and press forward with their efforts to…
The Post: Op-Ed: Ohio University professor hopes people will attend environmental speaker in November
The rate of climate change demands urgent action. Athens, OH, resident and professor urges community members attend a November 13th event: CELDF's Thomas Linzey speaking…
The Southern Illinoisan: Group plans to keep pushing community bill of rights
Jackson County, IL, residents doggedly pursue a Community Bill of Rights ordinance banning fracking and protecting their rights to clean air, water, and local self-government,…
DeSmog Blog: Communities Pushing For Legal Rights To Regain Power Over Fracking Companies
As the fracking industry pushes into communities against the will of the people, growing numbers of communities across the U.S. are using community rights in…
Eye on Ohio: Ohio Supreme Court rules against anti-fracking ballot measures
Reporter Simon Davis-Cohen provides in-depth reporting on state and industry efforts to keep fracking and pipeline initiatives off the ballot in Ohio - including the…
State Impact: Federal court rejects township’s waste water disposal ban
While a federal judge finds in favor of the oil and gas industry to force frack wastewater into Grant Township, PA, the decision also reveals…
NCRN Press Release: National Community Rights Network Endorses the Youngstown Community Bill of Rights Charter Amendment
NCRN endorses Youngstown, OH's Community Bill of Rights Charter Amendment. The initiative advances the rights of residents and prohibits fracking activities that would violate community…
Chad Nicholson of CELDF speaks in Potter County, PA
CELDF's Chad Nicholson presents on community rights in Potter County, PA, where residents face fracking.
New Hampshire Union Leader: Developer says Newfound-area wind plant still on track
A Portuguese energy company edges forward on harmful industrial wind projects in towns in New Hampshire. Residents are determined to decide for themselves what projects…
The World: Coos County community rights group driven to ‘legalize sustainability’
CELDF's Thomas Linzey spoke to Coos County, OR, residents, who are advancing a Community Bill of Rights sustainability ordinance to stop an export terminal and…
New Hampshire Union Leader: Network finds legislative sponsor for local land rights amendment
Representative Susan Emerson in the New Hampshire legislature introduces a CELDF-drafted community rights state constitutional amendment, brought forward by the New Hampshire Community Rights Network.
EcoWatch: This Pennsylvania Community Is Determined to Ban GMOs and Pesticides
Lancaster County, PA, residents recognize it's not enough to label GMO food. They want to ban it. Using community rights, residents are organizing to assert…
No more results.
