Communities from across Ohio file a federal lawsuit against local Boards of Elections and the Ohio Secretary of State for multiple rights violations - including…
Press Release: Ohio Communities Assert Right to Propose Laws Protecting Themselves from Fracking
Ohio counties exercise their right to protect themselves from fracking activities using community rights. Residents begin gathering signatures for county charter initiatives, aiming for the…
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…
Akron Beacon Journal: LTE – Right to Local Control
The Ohio legislature adopted HB 463, further stripping communities of local control. Portage County residents speak out, vowing they will press forward with a county-wide…
Truthout: Democracy Deferred: Ohio Removes Anti-Fracking Measures From County Ballots
In Ohio and elsewhere, when democracy threatens the oil and gas industry, those occupying our legal and governing structures take liberty in interpreting the law…
Akron Beacon Journal: Ohio Supreme Court derails efforts to put anti-fracking measures on ballots
Athens, Meigs, and Portage County, OH, residents decry the Ohio Supreme Court's decision blocking their county charter initiatives from the ballot. Residents face fracking harms…
Energy Wire: Ohio Supreme Court keeps anti-fracking measures off ballot
While the Ohio Supreme Court blocks the right to initiative in three counties, one judge dissents, calling the court's action "a usurpation of power from…
The Athens News: Supreme Court flushes county charters yet again
Residents in three Ohio counties find no justice in the courts as the state and oil/gas industry succeed in blocking their County Charter initiatives from…
Columbus Free Press: Ohio residents stand with Standing Rock, protest Nexus pipeline
OHCRN members from across Ohio staged street theater and spoke out in support of the Standing Rock Sioux in front of the state house. Residents…
The Athens Messenger: Supreme Court says no to Athens County charter proposal
The Ohio Supreme Court refuses to place Athens, Meigs, and Portage Counties' rights-based Charters on the November ballot. County residents are working to protect their…
Press Release: Right to Initiative Rendered Dead by Ohio Supreme Court
The Ohio Supreme Court finds on behalf of the oil and gas industry and the colluding state government. The people's duly qualified rights-based county charter…
The Athens News: Ohio Supreme Court receives arguments over charter proposal
Three Ohio counties submit their case to the Ohio Supreme Court: the right to local community self-government is protected in federal and state constitutions, and…
The Athens Messenger: Charter supporters ask Ohio Supreme Court to change its prior ruling
Athens, Meigs, and Portage County, OH, residents make their case for their constitutional right to vote on qualified County Charter initiatives this fall. The measures…
Desmog Blog: Ohio Residents Clash With State and County Government in Fight to Ban Fracking via the Ballot
The right to local democratic self-governance becomes a political debate as Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, county boards of elections, and the oil and…
Press Release: Ohio Secretary of State Sides with Oil/Gas Industry Again Over Community Rights
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted demonstrates his loyalty to the oil and gas industry by trying to block citizen initiatives. The initiatives propose county…
Record Courier: LTE: Husted in conflict on county charter issue
A Portage County resident applauds the advancing a county charter proposal that would ban frack injection wells, and calls out Ohio Secretary of State Jon…
The Athens Messenger: Husted opens charter dispute to outside parties
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted - an oil and gas industry ally - will decide whether or not to place three rights-based county charter…
Akron Beacon Journal: Letter to the Editor – Give power to local residents
Says Portage County, OH, resident: The people who live in a community should make the governing decisions impacting that community. Portage County residents are advancing…
OHCRN Statement: County Boards of Elections Attempt to Stifle Democracy: Meigs, Athens and Medina Counties
Efforts in Ohio by local Boards of Elections to block rights-based County Charter initiatives banning fracking fail to disempower We the People.
The Record Courier: Charter forces push ballot bid
Portage County, OH, residents have found no remedy in their local or state government as they are inundated with frack wastewater injection wells. They are…
The Record-Courier: KEC board backs county charter bid
The Kent Environmental Council endorses the Portage Community Rights Group's rights-based county charter initiative. The county charter would ban frack wastewater injection wells as a…
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