Press Release from Snohomish County Community Rights Please share: On June 9 at 6 pm, Snohomish County Community Rights (SCCR) will host an online Rights of Nature (RON) workshop by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) “Emancipating Nature: Securing Legal Rights for Ecosystems” The workshop will cover the following: What is rights of nature? [...]
Press Release from the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature: June 3-5 On the week of World Environment Day, the global environmental community is coming together in Stockholm, Sweden for a major international environmental meeting: “Stockholm+50: a healthy planet for the prosperity of all – our responsibility, our opportunity”, which will take place five [...]
Protecting the Rights of People & Nature From the Local Up Subscribe | CRUS Homepage | Donate Greetings! In today's newsletter, we share some initial thoughts on a surprising ruling last week from the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals; announce the publication of Founding Director Paul Cienfuegos' new book How Dare We: Courageous Practices [...]
Corporate Abuse: Example, Baby Formula Crisis On his "Lean to the Left" podcast, Bob Gatty interviews Community Rights US Founding Director Paul Cienfuegos about his new book, the baby formula shortage and much more. The federal government's lack of action that has allowed Abbott Laboratories to gain a stranglehold on the baby formula business is [...]
By Terry Lodge of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) on May 11, 2022. Over the weekend of Earth Day, the documentary video “Youth v. Gov,” the story of the Juliana v U.S. climate lawsuit, was nationally released. Also known as the young people’s climate change lawsuit, the documentary covers the travails of twenty-one [...]
To the untrained eye, we have plenty of state and federal government agencies to protect our air, water, food, drugs, transportation...all kinds of things to make sure people are safe. But a look at our history gives the context of how these regulatory agencies, as their name implies, regulate harm rather than stop it. They [...]
Published by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) on May 4, 2022 On April 20, 2022, a hearing was held in Commonwealth Court in Harrisburg, PA. As many are aware, CELDF has stood with the people and ecosystems of Grant Township (Indiana County, PA, population 700) in their courageous efforts to keep a frack [...]
A new Rights of Nature Bill was proposed in Canada on May 5, 2022.
By Bill Bush on May 11, 2022 in The Columbus Dispatch. A group that has unsuccessfully tried four times to get a citizen initiative on the Columbus ballot to ban injection wells from fracking within the city limits says it learned long ago that the city's rules discourage putting such issues directly before voters. At [...]
From the Amazon to the Klamath, granting rivers legal rights is part of Indigenous-led efforts to protect them. By Chloe Berge in National Geographic on April 15, 2022. With its thunderous rapids carving through a wild boreal forest in Quebec’s Côte-Nord region, the Magpie River is well known to white water rafters from around the [...]
