From ThinkProgress on the efforts of the oil and gas industry to stop Community Rights and Rights of Nature, the courageous communities who refuse to…
Non-Profit Quarterly: Nonprofit Legal Firm Ordered to Pay for its Defense of Anti-Fracking City Ordinance
Sanctioning public interest attorneys for defending Grant Township, PA's, ban on fracking wastewater injection wells is the next step in efforts to stop communities from…
Desmog: Court Orders Nonprofit Law Firm to Pay $52,000 to Oil and Gas Company for Defending Local Fracking Waste Ban
Community Rights is growing, and this is the corporate state's punitive response.
Rolling Stone: The Rights of Nature Movement Goes on Trial
The people of Grant Township, PA, are fiercely defending their right to clean air and water. A federal judge sanctions two attorneys for standing with…
Press Release: Federal Court Sanctions Lawyers for Defending Community’s Right to Say “No” to Frack Wastewater Injection Wells
The corporate state's judiciary punishes attorneys defending Grant Township, PA, residents against the oil and gas industry by imposing sanctions.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: ‘No is no is no’: A tiny township’s fight against oil and gas waste disposal
While Grant Township, PA, residents fight to protect themselves from PGE's frack wastewater injection well, the oil and gas industry admits it wants to bankrupt…
NexusMedia: Meet the Rural Pennsylvania Town at the Forefront of Environmental Law
Grant Township, PA, digs in deep to fight a frack wastewater injection well, leveraging rights to challenge a legal system stacked against them.
Press Release: Oil & Gas Corp. Sues Community, Goes After Lawyers
PGE corporation is attempting to force fracking wastewater into Grant Twp, PA. Now they seek sanctions against CELDF attorneys working on behalf of the community.
Rolling Stone: How a Small Town Is Standing Up to Fracking
Rolling Stone Magazine covers the story of Grant Township, PA, where the residents are working with CELDF to protect themselves from PGE's fracking injection well.…
GoErie.com LTE: PA DEP suing municipalities during its ‘justice’ tour
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection holds "listening hearings" for feedback from communities, while it sues two townships fighting the oil and gas industry.
The Huffington Post: They Told A Fracking Company To Go Away. 3 Years Later, They’re Still in Court.
The story of one small community's fierce fight against the oil and gas industry, using community rights with CELDF and spearheading a movement.
Mint Press News: PA Dept. of Environmental Protection Sues Towns Over Fracking Ban
Residents of Grant and Highland Townships, PA, continue the fight to protect themselves from a frack wastewater injection well. Joining the fight against them: the…
The Indiana Gazette: Grant Twp, PA, residents plan local action to protect their water from injection well
Community rights advocates in Grant Township, PA, continue their stand to protect their water from a frack wastewater injection well.
Communities take action when their government fails them: Community Rights in PA/OH
Environmental activists, leaders, and residents are touring Pennsylvania and Ohio, sharing what they are doing in the face of the corporate state attempting to force…
In These Times: Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection Sues Towns for Trying to Protect Their Environment
It doesn't get any clearer than this: our own environmental regulatory agencies suing communities who dare to protect the environment by banning fracking activities. Is…
PennLive: Outrage and localism after state sues towns that banned frack water wells
Residents of Grant and Highland Townships, PA, are outraged by the Dept. of Environmental Protection's lawsuits against them for rights-based laws banning frack waste injections…
PR: The Corporate State of Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection sues Townships with Community Rights Home Rule Charters to force in fracking injection wells.
PA Dept of Environmental Protection sues its own communities over fracking injection wells
A state agency charged with protecting the health and safety of communities and the natural environment sues Grant and Highland Townships in Pennsylvania, attempting to…
Indiana Gazette LTE: Learning from Grant Twp, PA, on protecting our communities from fracking
When our government fails to protect us from fracking activities, we must do so ourselves.
Counterpunch: Get The Frack Out of Pennsylvania
Fiction mirrors reality, and author Lee Ballinger draws the parallels between a novel set in Pennsylvania describing the ravages of fracking, and the reality in…
Yes! Magazine: As a Trump Administration Fast Approaches, Cities and Towns Gear Up for Political Resistance
Community Bills of Rights are a tool to protect rights at the local level, such as Barnstead, NH's prohibition on religious identification requirements, and Grant…
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