By Terry Lodge of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) on May 11, 2022. Over the weekend of Earth Day, the documentary video “Youth v. Gov,” the story of the Juliana v U.S. climate lawsuit, was nationally released. Also known as the young people’s climate change lawsuit, the documentary covers the travails of twenty-one [...]
Published by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) on May 4, 2022 On April 20, 2022, a hearing was held in Commonwealth Court in Harrisburg, PA. As many are aware, CELDF has stood with the people and ecosystems of Grant Township (Indiana County, PA, population 700) in their courageous efforts to keep a frack [...]
In addition to Paul Cienfuegos's new book, there's another CR book coming, this one from folks in Ohio. CELDF announced this and other updates in a recent newsletter Nov. 18, 2021. Book Announcement Ohio community members have worked hard over the past eight years with CELDF, proposing charter amendments and ordinances recognizing local self-governance and [...]
Interview with the Sponsor: Former City Councilmember Cheryl Davila On Tuesday, March 30, the City Council of Berkeley, California, will consider a resolution recognizing the rights of nature. That Resolution would recognize the City’s commitment to act in ways that respect that the “natural living world has a right to exist, thrive, regenerate and evolve [...]
Episode 1 of CELDF’s Fast Fact Friday Series is about Rights of Nature. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL7Qhv0O2FE&feature=emb_logo
CELDF comments on recent backlash against rights of nature movement. Following 2020 developments in Ecuador, French Guiana, the Nez Perce Tribe, Costa Rica, Spain, the Yurok Tribe, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, the American Petroleum Institute and lawmakers in Missouri respond to repress momentum in the United States. So far in 2020, important developments for the global [...]
Episode 12 of CELDF’s Fast Fact Friday Series is about defunding the police. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1kNfniItWo&feature=emb_logo
People, communities, and Nature have a right to be healthy and thrive – to be free of chemical trespass. Check out CELDF's 8th Fast Fact Friday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asNlGGAFIbc&feature=emb_logo
Nov 10, 2020 by Michelle Sanborn The following is an excerpt from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund’s fall 2020 newsletter “Observing Revolution.” Email info@celdf.org to receive a hard and/or electronic copy of their newsletters. In New Hampshire, at the 2006 annual town meeting in Barnstead, residents enacted a first-in-the-nation law prohibiting corporate water extractions. [...]
By Holly Barrow, published Aug 1, 2020 by CELDF CELDF Editor’s Note: The United State’s system of racist mass incarceration serves to control the political wishes of the American people. The immigration detention and deportation pipeline denies political rights to people who live in the country, and expels them from the collective political community. At [...]
