Despite recognizing the Grant Townships local law to ban injection wells the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection continues to sue the township. CELDF files motion…
Democratic Party Must Not Water Down Rights of Nature
Some leaders within the growing Rights of Nature movement in the United States have offered perspective and the Democratic Party’s actions
Press Release: New Hampshire Supreme Court Gives Group Chance to Defend Right to a Healthy Climate Law from Corporate Lawsuit
While local electeds refused to defend Nottingham's Healthy Climate Law, the New Hampshire Supreme Court heard the people's voice. Now residents are able to defend…
Press Release: Toledo Residents Experiment With Civilian Rights of Nature Enforcement
Toledo, Ohio residents give oral arguments in Lake Erie Bill of Rights pro se lawsuit to advances one avenue for participatory Rights of Nature enforcement.
WANTED: Local Officials Willing to Fight the Corporate State to Protect People and the Environment During a Pandemic
The system is constructed to disempower communities, to the detriment of people and the planet. That is why we need to fight back and why…
Guest Blog: The Prison-Industrial Complex & Immigration Detention
The United State’s system of racist mass incarceration serves to control the political wishes of the American people. The immigration detention and deportation pipeline denies…
Press Release: Corporate Actors Challenged in Lincoln County, OR: Ecosystem, Petitioners Defend Ordinance
Press Release: Petitioners in Lincoln County, OR filed a detailed appeal to a court decision that overturned a local law banning aerially sprayed pesticides as…
Guest Blog: Time for a Universal Declaration on the Rights of Nature
Pella Thiel, Rights of Nature Sweden, calls for meaningful changes to our relationship with nature.
Press Release: New Hampshire Supreme Court: Allow People to Defend Against Corporate Lawsuits
Nottingham, New Hampshire residents appeal Supreme Court to defend their Freedom from Chemical Trespass Ordinance. Adopted in 2019, this ordinance secures the right to a…
Stand With George Floyd: Life > Property
When violent police forces rooted in white supremacy defend property rather than human beings, then property destruction becomes a collective act of self-defense. CELDF stands…
GUEST BLOG: Making Corporate America Safe for Democracy
A critical look at labor equity in America is long overdue. The relationship between empoyer and employee should not be that of master and servant…
Corporate America is on Offense, Local Communities Can Be Too
Government allies and corporate interests are treating the global pandemic as a business opportunity. Communities enduring this crisis are taking bold and necessary actions to exercise…
Press Release: Rights of Nature Law Forces Pennsylvania to Revoke Industry Permit
PRESS RELEASE: Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection enforces local Rights of Nature law. Allows Grant Township to protect vital waterways in revoking permit for dangerous…
Social Distancing for Community Organizers
In the battle against Covid-19, many of us find ourselves self-quarantined and working remotely. But alas, the work must go on. We've organized some tools…
Press Release: Grant Township Injection Well Ban Stands, Court Denies ‘Collateral Attack’ from DEP
A decision fro a judge in Grant Township argues that local governing authority is necessary to protect the community’s constitutional rights in the face of…
Press Release: Judge Refuses to Acknowledge Lake Erie’s Rights
In Toledo, OH, a federal judge joined a long list of enablers complicit in the destruction of the natural world by invalidating the democratically enacted…
Securing #MeToo
The #MeToo movement will prove only to be a passing moment in history unless women are the ones making governing decisions that impact them.
Press Release: Lake Erie Bill of Rights and Rights of Nature Argued in US Federal Court
A post-court update of the Lake Erie Bill of Rights. Get an in-depth look at the arguments made in federal court as the Corporate State…
Lake Erie Bill of Rights Court Update
Read the first-hand accounts from attendees at the historic Lake Erie Bill of Rights hearing that took place in Toledo, Ohio last week.
Who Speaks for Lake Erie?
Toledoans are tired of waiting for action out of Columbus. State and federal authorities — who are supposed to protect the lake, and the people…
Blog: Crisis Calls for More Democracy, Not Less
Financial and environmental crises call for more democracy - not less. Yet we see these crises used by U.S. and state governments to suspend democracy.…
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