Community Rights and Rights of Nature are growing. Here, how Toledo residents are advancing them to protect the Great Lake Erie.
The Thom Hartmann Program: We Don’t Just Have a Fracking Problem, We Have A Democracy Problem!
CELDF's Tish O'Dell is on the Thom Hartmann Program, exploring why we don't have a fracking problem - but instead a democracy problem.
Cleveland.com: Pro-fracking writer ignored essential dangers of drilling: Tish O’Dell, Mothers Against Drilling in Our Neighborhoods
Ohio resident Tish O'Dell counters the oil and gas industry's insistence that fracking is safe. Regardless, communities have the right to determine what happens in…
Cleveland.com: No new oil, gas well applications in Broadview Heights, despite court case supporting drillers
Broadview Heights, OH, residents' strong stand to block new drilling wells keeps fracking out and oil and gas companies away.
Gazette: Broadview Hts.’ citizens group MADION continues its gas-oil well fight in court
Broadview Heights, OH, residents' CELDF attorney presents oral arguments on the people's inalienable right to protect their communities from fracking over the corporate claimed "right"…
The Athens News: Appeals court in fracking case should stand up for basic rights
A class action lawsuit filed by CELDF on behalf of Broadview Heights residents to uphold their inalienable right to local self-government - including their right…
Community Rights Papers #8: A Touch of Class
While the state and the oil and gas industry work together to force fracking activities into communities, those same communities are working to reclaim their…
Government and Corporations Collude Against the People: Ohio Is a Corporate State
Ohio government officials, both locally and at the state level, use oil and gas industry law firms in an attempt to keep the people's ballot…
OHCRN Statement: Broadview Heights, OH, County Court Decision Evokes Rallying Cry from Residents
While a County Court elevates corporate claimed "rights" over community rights in Broadview Heights, OH, residents assert the decision is illegitimate and determine to continue…
Press Release: Broadview Heights Adopts Community Bill of Rights Banning Fracking
Today, the residents of Broadview Heights banned fracking from within the City limits through a Community Bill of Rights Charter Amendment. The amendment established the…
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