This story and 5 minute video clip was posted on the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund’s website on July 17th, 2019. Here is what CELDF had to say about it below.
Lake Erie has rights, thanks to Toledo community members who partnered with CELDF and took action to protect the ecosystem and their sole source of drinking water. Check out Michael Kosta from the Daily Show reporting on CELDF and Toledoans for Safe Water HERE.
Lake Erie is the first ecosystem in the United States to be recognized in law as having rights to exist, flourish, and evolve – and is part of the growing Rights of Nature movement. Learn more about this groundbreaking law HERE.