CELDF’s Executive Director Thomas Linzey, Esq. and attorney Daniel E. Brannen, Jr, Esq. co-author, published A Phoenix from the Ashes: Resurrecting a Constitutional Right of Local Community Self-Government in the Name of Environmental Sustainability in the Arizona Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, January 2018. This article began as a series of legal briefs filed in [...]
This article by Lauren Karch appeared in Nonprofit Quarterly, January 22nd, 2018. January 10, 2018; Rolling Stone Rolling Stone reported earlier this month that a federal judge has issued what could be a groundbreaking sanction on a nonprofit law firm. The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) was ordered in early January to pay $52,000 [...]
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. A Blog Posting by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from January 21, 2018. The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund in 1995 In the 1990’s, CELDF was a conventional environmental law firm. We believed that if only there were more [...]
This article by Simon Davis-Cohen appeared on Desmog, January 17, 2018. In early January, a federal judge ordered the nonprofit law firm Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) to pay $52,000 to an oil and gas exploration company for defending a rural Pennsylvania township’s ban on underground injections of frack waste. This sanction comes at the [...]
This letter by the Grant Township of Pennsylvania Supervisors was published on the Community Legal Defense Fund's (CELDF) website, January 12, 2018. Today the elected supervisors of Grant Township, PA, responded to the sanctions against Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) attorneys who have “defended our community’s right to stop a toxic frack wastewater injection [...]
Why was an environmental law firm sanctioned for helping to block a toxic fracking wastewater project? This article by Justin Nobel appeared in Rolling Stone Magazine, January 10, 2018. Last Friday, a federal judge in western Pennsylvania issued sanctions on two lawyers from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, a law firm that for 15 years has [...]
Attorney on climate bill fracking ban: "It is my opinion the city would lose that lawsuit, swiftly." This article by Anthony Hahn was published in the Daily Camera, January 3rd, 2018. Lafayette's City Council will meet publicly with representatives of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, a nonprofit public interest law firm that often engages in [...]
This letter to the editor by Peter A. White appeared on Fosters.com, December 21, 2017. People have always risen up to right the wrongs inflicted by the ruling elite. That time has come again, and the people of New Hampshire are using Community Rights to end harmful exploitation of our communities. MORE....
A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from December 7th, 2017. Right of local community self-government advances Yesterday, the Ohio Ballot Board unanimously approved two proposed state constitutional amendments, determining they each meet the single subject requirement. A legal representative of the people, community members, and several members of the Ohio Community Rights [...]
The initiative would change Tacoma's city charter to allow residents to set water usage limits at the port. This article by Jenna Hanchard appeared on the King 5 News's website, December 1, 2017. Community activists spoke at a state court of appeals hearing Thursday in support of an initiative that could impact industry at Tacoma’s [...]
