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Press Release: Grant Township Moves to Dismiss PA DEP Lawsuit
...Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is building a movement for Community Rights and the Rights of Nature to advance democratic, economic, social, and environmental rights…
Press Release: Corporate Actors Challenged in Lincoln County, OR: Ecosystem, Petitioners Defend Ordinance
...banning aerially sprayed pesticides as a violation of people’s right to clean air, water, and soil and natural ecosystems’ rights. The Siletz River ecosystem was…
Highland Township
Highland Township in Elk County, PA, adopted a Community Bill of Rights Ordinance in January 2013, codifying the community’s rights to clean air, water, the…
Rights of Nature Event with CELDF’s Will Falk at Georgetown Law in Washington D.C.
...treats living ecosystems as property instead of relatives and asks one of the most foundational questions in environmental law: What if Nature had legal rights?…
Envision Spokane Successfully Qualifies Initiative to the Ballot
Envision Spokane's Brad Read on the "Community Bill of Rights" Initiative....
Our Inalienable Rights to Freedom
Rolling Stone: The Environment Is Under Attack. The Rights of Nature Movement Can Save It
...New York State Assembly granting them and all other bodies of water in New York those legal rights. The waters, the bill declares, “shall possess…
Questioning Unquestioned Beliefs: What The Lake Erie Bill Of Rights Teaches Us
Attorneys Will Falk and Sean Butler’s insightful piece on the Lake Erie Bill of Rights as Rights of Nature comes up against a legal system…
Mora County Legal Defense Fund
The Mora County Legal Defense Fund was formed to protect Mora’s Community Rights – including their right to clean air and water, a healthy environment,…
Tribute to Audrey Moore
...are sharing the news of the recent passing of Audrey Moore. Over the last two years, Audrey has been a truly formidable force and trailblazer…
Ohio Community Rights Network: Join with OHCRN to grow the Community Rights Movement today!
A video on the work of OHCRN in growing Community Rights to help protect all Ohioans from harmful activities threatening clean air, pure water, and…
Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Funds CELDF’s Work to Advance Rights to Local, Democratic Self-Governance and Rights of Nature
Media Release: First Right to Climate Law Adopted in New Hampshire
Ohio Community Rights Network: Join with OHCRN to grow the Community Rights Movement today!
A video on the work of OHCRN in growing Community Rights to help protect all Ohioans from harmful activities threatening clean air, pure water, and…
Chile’s Rejection
Guest author – Camila Vergara Pinochet and his legacy have proven hard to kill. The 2022 draft constitution – the most progressive constitution ever written…
Module 3: Nature’s Rebellion Against the Corporate State
...Module Three- Decolonizing Nature - A Movement's Voice in the Rebellion. Sign up for the final module in this three part webinar focused on Lake…
Cathy Miorelli from We the People 2.0 – The Second American Revolution
Facing legal and political intimidation tactics aimed at silencing her, Cathy Miorelli refused - and led the way to advance Community Rights in Tamaqua, PA.…
Blog: Propertied Privilege Trumps Democracy
Blog: Matters of State Concern: The Tyranny of Preemption
Wouldn’t You Say? – The Law Did not Save Grant Township’s Water, the People of Grant Did
...souls an affront to the rights of the community, and their attack on the municipality’s home rule charter an assault on democracy. Grant Township was…
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