Community rights movement grows statewide, despite corporate state efforts to block it

A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from May 1, 2017.

Broadview Heights, Ohio: Residents of Portage, Medina, and Athens Counties are asserting the people’s right to local community self-government, the right to a healthy environment, and the right to protect themselves from fracking harms through community rights initiatives. County residents began circulating petitions this week to place the rights-based measures on the November ballot. MORE…