New Hampshire resident and attorney Lorraine Hansen decries the state and federal regulatory system as a means to protect people and the environment from harmful…
TruthDig: Death by Fracking
Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges speaks to fracking as one of myriad harms destroying communities and ecosystems; the uselessness of our environmental laws; the incestuous…
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…
Huffington Post: Epic Change — Part 1
Kenny Ausubel of Bioneers sees a colossal awakening happening as climate change forces human behavioral shifts. Under our current structure of law, however, sustainability is…
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…
Jefferson Public Radio: How To Exercise “Community Rights” On The Environment
CELDF's Thomas Linzey speaks to the community rights movement. Growing numbers of people are using community rights to challenge corporate claimed "rights" and state preemption,…
The Spokesman-Review: Election preview: Spokane Proposition 1, the Worker Bill of Rights
Spokane, WA's, Worker Bill of Rights initiative places worker rights over corporate privileges. “If we are about creating ...sustainability, we can’t get there without actually…
The World: Your View: Time for people to reject corporate shackles
Future generations in Coos County, OR, have a fundamental and unalienable right to a sustainable economy and energy future. Coos residents advance their bill of…
Boulder Weekly: Letters – Community Rights
Boulder, CO, resident Rick Casey urges discussion and exploration of community rights and the community rights state ballot initiative, heading for the November 2016 ballot.
Eugene Weekly: Fighting Back Against Corporate Rights
CELDF's Thomas Linzey returns to Oregon on a speaking tour, addressing community rights as a challenge to corporate harms such as GMOs and coal trains.…
Statesman Journal: Salem talk starts “community rights” events
In Oregon and across the U.S., community rights is growing into a people's movement. CELDF's Thomas Linzey is on a community rights tour in Oregon,…
Wisconsin Public Radio: Ho-Chunk Nation Amends Constitution To Add Environmental Protections
Tribal members add the rights of nature to their constitution, in order to strengthen protections against corporate harms. Over the last decade, CELDF has helped…
Commonweal: Pope Francis to UN: Respect the ‘Right of the Environment’
In a stunning assertion during a speech to the U.N., the Pope asserted the need to recognize the Rights of Nature. For over a decade,…
WKBN First News 27: Youngstown fracking amendment makes another run, group supports passage
Frack Free Mahoning Valley members urge support in Youngstown for a Community Bill of Rights banning fracking, which is on the November ballot.
Truthout: Campaign for a “Worker Bill of Rights” Puts ALEC in Spokane’s Crosshairs
Spokane, WA's Worker Bill of Rights asserts the right to community decision-making over corporate claimed "rights" to call the shots. And in Colorado, residents' community…
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