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 community rights organizing, for an open forum on the city’s Climate Bill of Rights.
That is despite an urging from Lafayette’s legal counsel against taking the organization up on its proposed defense of the bill as a ban on oil and gas development, city spokeswoman Debbie Wilmot indicated on Wednesday. MORE…