To combat fracking and accomplish other community ends, charter groups seek more local authority This article by David DeWitt was published in The Athens News, November 28, 2017. A legal organization that has been working with a group of Athens County residents to put an anti-fracking county charter before voters the past three years is [...]
This audio interview with NH representative Ellen Read and CELDF’s Michelle Sanborn about the NH Community Rights state constitutional amendment took place on The Harmann Report, November 27, 2017. This 10 minute interview starts 31:00 into the podcast, and can be listened to HERE.
A Blog Posting by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), from November 20, 2017. Recently, New Hampshire Representative Ellen Read sponsored CACR19, a state constitutional amendment that guarantees local communities the right to make the decisions affecting the places where they live – including recognizing Community Rights over corporate claimed “rights.” The New Hampshire Community Rights [...]
Let the People Decide A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from March 22, 2017. As state government and industry attempt to strip local self-governing authority from communities across the state, residents refuse to surrender their democratic and environmental rights. Working through the Ohio Community Rights Network (OHCRN), today they submitted two proposed [...]
This letter to the editor by board members of New Hampshire Community Rights Network appeared on Seacoast Online November 15, 2017. We are writing in support of the recently proposed State Constitutional amendment CACR19. This amendment would secure N.H. citizens’ right to self-government, thereby guaranteeing local communities the authority to protect the health, safety, and [...]
This original article by Laura Legere appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette November 13, 2017. The natural gas wells in the cornfields and woods here are a fact of the landscape, more numerous than houses. Obvious markers of the business, like tanks and pump jacks, are usually painted green to make them less obtrusive.The Marjorie C. [...]
This original article by Mike Ludwig appeared on Truthout November 10, 2017. The mighty Colorado River and its watersheds are a crucial source of life in the arid Southwest, supplying water to vast ecosystems and millions of people across seven states and northern Mexico. With so much depending on its existence, the Colorado River filed [...]
This article by Simon Davis-Cohen originally appeared on DeSmog November 1, 2017. In a slight break with previous state policies that have encouraged fracking activity and new pipelines, the Ohio Supreme Court recently struck down a controversial provision restricting citizen efforts to vote locally on these and other issues through the ballot initiative process. MORE...
Two lawyers argue that the feds should impose “dictatorships for democracy” on cities and government bodies in fiscal crisis. This original article by Simon Davis-Cohen appeared in The Nation October 30, 2017. A nurse dispatched to Puerto Rico by the Registered Nurse Response Network described the island’s dire situation earlier this month. “A line formed [...]
This article by Will Falk originally appeared in the San Diego Free Press October 18, 2017. In the war for social and environmental justice, even the best lawyers rarely serve as anything more than battlefield medics. They do what they can to stop the bleeding for the people, places, and causes suffering on the front [...]
