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State & Federal Preemption

Sierra Club Magazine: Nevertheless, They Persisted: How one small town in Pennsylvania is successfully fighting the fracked gas industry

This article by Aaron Skirboll about Grant Township's resistance to Pennsylvania General Energy (PGE) injecting fracking wastewater into abandoned wells in the township was published in Sierra Club magazine on December 17th, 2019. JUNE 3, 2014. Looking back, many residents of Grant Township, Pennsylvania, believe that was the day their fight against the state's powerful [...]

By |2020-01-12T11:54:18-08:00January 12th, 2020|Regulatory Agencies & Laws (Federal & State), Right to Local, Community Self-Government, Rights of Nature, State & Federal Preemption, Supreme Courts - Federal & State|
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Feeding the People: Community Rights and Chili

Reflections on Community Rights from Rural America is a monthly column by CR activist and organizer Curt Hubatch. Curt is an unschooling father of two young children and one young adult. Currently he works as a substitute rural letter carrier for the USPS. He lives in a cordwood house that he built with his wife, [...]

By |2019-11-23T11:47:46-08:00November 20th, 2019|Dillon's Rule, Original Writings on Community Rights Topics, Regulatory Agencies & Laws (Federal & State), Right to Local, Community Self-Government, Rights of Nature, Speeches & Presentations by Community Rights People, State & Federal Preemption|
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Anatomy of a STATE And Corporate Attack on a People’s Movement

This article was written and published by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund on October 23, 2019. Since its inception, a state-wide movement in Ohio has faced a state and corporate attack that amounts to concerted opposition from all branches of state government, corporate lobbies, private law firms, and both political parties. The entire repressive [...]

By |2019-11-18T10:12:12-08:00November 18th, 2019|Blogs from Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Original Writings on Community Rights Topics, Regulatory Agencies & Laws (Federal & State), Right to Local, Community Self-Government, Rights of Nature, State & Federal Preemption, State Community Rights Networks & their founding Declarations, Supreme Courts - Federal & State|
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New Publication: Do It Yourself Community Rights

The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) recently published a do it yourself guide on how to advance Community Rights laws in your state. You can learn all about it and download it HERE! Description of the publication below. Are you interested in advancing Community Rights laws in your state? Community Rights includes Rights of [...]

By |2019-10-30T07:47:21-07:00October 30th, 2019|American Revolution & Our Two Federal Constitutions, Critiques of Existing Activism through a Community Rights Lens, Dillon's Rule, Regulatory Agencies & Laws (Federal & State), Right to Local, Community Self-Government, Rights of Nature, State & Federal Preemption, State Community Rights Networks & their founding Declarations, Supreme Courts - Federal & State|
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High Country News: Can a campaign for nature and community rights stop aerial spraying in Oregon?

The push for more local control upends the typical pattern of Westerners fighting against regulation. This article by Carl Segerstrom was published in High Country News on October 23th, 2019. With both hands in the pockets of his khakis, Loren Wand wavered nervously on a small stage at Bier One Brewing in Newport, Oregon. A gathering [...]

By |2019-11-22T08:31:07-08:00October 23rd, 2019|News Stories: State & Regional, Right to Local, Community Self-Government, Rights of Nature, State & Federal Preemption, Supreme Courts - Federal & State|
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Press Release: Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Attacks 4-Year-Old Community Water Protection Law

The local law is currently protecting Grant Township’s drinking water source from toxic hydraulic fracking waste injections. This press release was published by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) on October 17th, 2019. --A week ago, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) presented arguments to overturn a community ban on frack waste injection [...]

By |2019-11-13T09:06:32-08:00October 17th, 2019|Press Releases from Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Regulatory Agencies & Laws (Federal & State), Right to Local, Community Self-Government, State & Federal Preemption, Supreme Courts - Federal & State|
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Seeing Through the Myth of Perfection

Reflections on Community Rights from Rural America is a monthly column by CR activist and organizer Curt Hubatch. Curt is an unschooling father of two young children and one young adult. Currently he works as a substitute rural letter carrier for the USPS. He lives in a cordwood house that he built with his wife, [...]

By |2019-10-17T10:18:38-07:00October 16th, 2019|Original Writings on Community Rights Topics, Right to Local, Community Self-Government, State & Federal Preemption|
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Why is the state DEP suing Grant Township?

Corporations privatize profits and socialize costs This letter to the editor by Carol M. Saalbach appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on October 14th, 2019. I attended an Oct. 4 hearing at the City-County Building about the state Department of Environmental Protection’s lawsuit against Grant Township for upholding the home rule charter and trying to protect [...]

By |2019-11-13T09:29:14-08:00October 14th, 2019|Editorials & Letters to the Editor, State & Federal Preemption|
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Preemption conflicts between state and local governments

This article about state preemption and the political forces behind it was published on Ballotpedia Preemption occurs when law at a higher level of government is used to overrule authority at a lower level. State law can be used to preempt local ordinances, and federal law can be used to preempt state law. This page [...]

By |2019-10-13T12:40:17-07:00October 13th, 2019|Original Writings on Topics Relevant to the Community Rights Movement, Right to Local, Community Self-Government, State & Federal Preemption|
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Indiana Gazette: Hellbenders have their day in court

This article by Chauncey Ross was published in the Indiana Gazette on October 5th, 2019. PITTSBURGH — Six years after a plan for a drilling waste-disposal injection well was first revealed in northern Indiana County and after area residents banded together against it, lawyers waged another battle Friday in Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court. The dispute centers [...]

By |2019-10-21T08:17:49-07:00October 5th, 2019|News Stories: Local, News Stories: State & Regional, Regulatory Agencies & Laws (Federal & State), Right to Local, Community Self-Government, State & Federal Preemption, Supreme Courts - Federal & State|
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