This press release is from the Offices of PUBLIC HERALD STUDIOS Nonprofit Investigative News 606 Center St. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15221 Joshua: 419-202-8503 publicherald.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 22, 2021 CONTACT: Joshua Pribanic (Co-director), joshua@publicherald.org 2021 Gold Telly Awarded to Rights of Nature Documentary INVISIBLE HAND The must-see Rights of Nature documentary INVISIBLE HAND joins [...]
Malinda Clatterbuck, @NoLancPipelines & Chad Nicholson, @CELDF will discuss Empowering Communities Enforcing Rights of Nature on the next Better Path Presents by PSR Pennsylvania on Wednesday, June 23 at 4 pm PT/7 p.m. Eastern Time Register HERE. Photo credit: "dalias" by M. Martin Vicente is licensed under CC BY 2.0
CDER Press Release. Proposed amendment would recognize rights of iconic species, including the manatee, Florida panther, key deer, bottlenose dolphin, and others, as part of a five environmental amendment package Contact Chuck O’Neal Chair, Florida Rights of Nature Network (FRONN) chuckforflorida@gmail.com (407) 399-3228 Thomas Linzey, Esq. Senior Legal Counsel, Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights [...]
Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone tribal members who practice their traditional ways have formed a group to stop the proposed Thacker Pass open pit lithium mine. The group is named Atsa koodakuh wyh Nuwu (the People of Red Mountain). Here is Atsa koodakuh wyh Nuwu's Statement of Opposition to Lithium Nevada Corp.’s Proposed Thacker Pass [...]
Lincoln County in Oregon passed an ordinance that banned aerial pesticide spraying a few years back. The logging corporation sued. The judge didn’t make a decision for more than a year. And when she finally did, she overruled the CR law. The hearing for the appeal is today! Press Release Measure 21-177 Aerial Spray Ban [...]
The day has finally arrived when Lincoln County Community Rights has its day in court, to challenge the judge’s overruling of their CR ordinance last year. See below for links to both their pre-court info session and their court hearing listen-live link. ~Paul Cienfuegos, CRUS Founding Director Oral arguments on Lincoln County’s 2017 Ban of [...]
Press Release: Join us this Thursday evening, May 13th, for a timely virtual presentation that spotlights the importance of prioritizing frontline communities when shaping policy as part of a just transition to a clean energy economy. Hear directly from the communities impacted by the current #ThackerPass lithium mining project in Northern Nevada, including speakers from Fort McDermitt [...]
Media Release - Australian Earth Laws Alliance 28 April 2021 The Blue Mountains City Council (BMCC) has become the first Local Council – and in fact the first Government entity – in Australia, to embed ‘Rights of Nature’ as a keystone concept into its operational practices, planning process and advocacy program. On 27 April 2021, [...]
Wednesday, April 28th, at 9 a.m. PST/noon EST. Event Press Release: Award-winning filmmaker and journalist Melissa Troutman will be speaking at the Institute for Ecological Civilization's "The Rights of Nature in a Wellbeing Society" online panel this Wednesday, April 28th, at 9 a.m. PST/noon EST. Join her and other experts as they discuss how we define the [...]
The main culprit of the #ecocide of the #BalkanRivers are the state government & corresponding ministries issuing licenses and approving faulty environmental impact assessments, guaranteeing huge subsidies for dam owners, paid for by the citizens through their electricity bills. -@rontribunal International Rights of Nature Tribunal Tweet April 19, 2021 Local activists have been manifesting their [...]
