Oil and gas industry threatens criminal lawsuits against local elected officials taking a stand to protect their communities' health, safety, and welfare. In Grant Township,…
Common Dreams: Fracking Industry’s New Plan? Prosecute Those Who Push Drilling Bans
As communities seek to protect themselves from toxic drilling, Pennsylvania industry group mulls statute to deter such ordinances.
Allied News: Shale waste insights
Residents in Wilmington, PA, gathered to hear a panel discussion on fracking threats. Panelists included Grant Township Supervisor Stacy Long, describing tactics used by the…
Energy Wire: ‘Rights of nature’ heads back to federal court
Highland Township, PA, residents work with CELDF to push for the recognition of the Rights of Nature in the 3rd Circuit Court.
The Baffler: Who Speaks for the Trees?
Recognizing Rights of Nature is part of the growing discourse on the rights of ecosystems to exist and thrive, based on their own intrinsic value.…
Press Release: Grant Township Wins Key Motions in Fight for Civil and Environmental Rights
Grant Township, PA, residents and the Little Mahoning Watershed secure wins in motions filed recently by CELDF. Residents are fighting for their rights against PGE…
Law and Disorder Radio: Civil Disobedience Ordinance and Home Rule In Grant Township, PA
CELDF's Chad Nicholson and Grant Township resident Stacy Long are interviewed on Law and Disorder radio. Grant residents adopted an ordinance legalizing civil disobedience to…
The World: Movement growing to defend against corporate interests
State governments block communities' efforts to stop harmful activities. Corporations sue the communities and are backed by the judiciary. What's left? Says blogger Mary Geddry:…
YES! Magazine: Faced With a Fracking Giant, This Small Town Just Legalized Civil Disobedience
Grant Township, PA, residents send one clear, united message to the fracking industry: There will be no frack wastewater injection wells in our community. And…
Thom Hartmann Program: Civil Disobedience Just Became a Civic Duty
Thom Hartmann interviews CELDF's Chad Nicholson on Grant Township's bold move to make civil disobedience a civic duty. Grant residents insist on protecting their community…
Public Herald: Pennsylvania Township First To Legalize Civil Disobedience & ‘Bad Boy’ Tim DeChristopher Has Their Back
How Grant Township, PA, residents continue to make history as they stand against PGE to stop a frack wastewater injection well - and garner support…
Common Dreams: In This Passionate Anti-Fracking Town, Civil Disobedience Just Became Protected Civic Duty
In the face of PGE threatening a fracking wastewater injection well despite a local law banning injection wells, Grant Township, PA, residents make bold move…
Press Release: Pennsylvania Township Legalizes Civil Disobedience
Grant Township, PA, residents make history as the first community in the U.S. to legalize nonviolent civil disobedience to protect their community from a fracking…
PA Township News: Pre-emptive State Laws and Corporate ‘Rights’ Are Fraught with PERIL for Municipalities
CELDF responds to inaccuracies presented by the general counselor to the Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Association regarding Community Bills of Rights and our organization.
Two Landslide Wins in PA
In November, both Grant Township and West Chester Borough, PA, residents adopt community rights measures to assert their authority for self-determination and to protect themselves…
November Elections Update
Learn the latest news from election day in Grant Township and West Chester, PA; Youngstown, OH; and Spokane, WA. And check out the launch of…
Pittsburgh Business Times: This town hates frack waste so much it refuted a federal judge’s ruling and adopted a new charter to ban it
Grant Township, PA, residents refuse to accept a federal judge's ruling in favor of a fracking corporation that wants to site an injection well. Instead,…
Common Dreams: No Longer Willing to be Bullied and Fracked, How One Pennsylvania Town Fought Back
Grant Township is the first community in the U.S. to draft and adopt their municipal charter based entirely on community rights. In so doing, they…
Press Release: Despite Court Ruling, Grant Township Bans Fracking Injection Wells Again, Through Municipal Charter
The people of Grant Township, PA, adopt the first rights-based charter in the country banning frack wastewater injection wells, two weeks after a federal judge…
The Indiana Gazette: Grant Township voters to decide on home rule charter
Grant Township, PA, residents will vote this week on becoming a home rule township through a rights-based charter. The charter establishes the residents' rights to…
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…
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