This article by Maya Smith appeared in the Memphis Flyer, February 9, 2018. The places where smoking is permitted in the city could soon change if a new state bill passes that puts smoking policies in the control of local governments. The Local Option Bill, sponsored by Sen. Bill Ketron, R-Murfreesboro, would repeal the tobacco [...]
This press release by Annie Ropeik was published on New Hampshire Public Radio's website, February 5th, 2018. New Hampshire has put the brakes on the Northern Pass energy project for now, but some towns are still prepared to block it with local laws asserting their view on big utility development. Plymouth is the latest municipality to approve [...]
This article by Bea Lewis appeared in the New Hampshire Union Leader, January 31st, 2018. PLYMOUTH — Residents have adopted an ordinance they believe will give them the authority to ban Northern Pass from building within town borders. During a special town meeting on Thursday, residents voted by secret ballot 132 to 19 to adopt [...]
This article by Simon Davis-Cohen appeared on Desmog, January 17, 2018. In early January, a federal judge ordered the nonprofit law firm Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) to pay $52,000 to an oil and gas exploration company for defending a rural Pennsylvania township’s ban on underground injections of frack waste. This sanction comes at the [...]
This article by Kayla Beard appeared in The Athens News, January 10, 2018. Athens City Council members agreed Monday evening to codify into city law two successful citizen initiatives, one for de-penalization of marijuana in the city and the other banning fracking and other oil and gas related activities in city limits. Council spent the [...]
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 [...]
The initiative would change Tacoma's city charter to allow residents to set water usage limits at the port. This article by Jenna Hanchard appeared on the King 5 News's website, December 1, 2017. Community activists spoke at a state court of appeals hearing Thursday in support of an initiative that could impact industry at Tacoma’s [...]
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. [...]
Groups Says People Denied Constitutional Right to Vote for a County Charter This original article by Glenn Wojciak appeared in the The Post November 11, 2017. A photocopy of it appears on the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund's (CELDF) website. A small group of activists gathered outside the Board of Elections offices Nov. 1 to [...]
This original article by Peter Kuebeck originally appeared in the Sentinel-Tribune on November, 7th 2017. Discussion on the Nexus pipeline continued at Monday's Bowling Green Council meeting as Mayor Richard Edwards delivered impromptu and what were later described as impassioned remarks addressing both the pipeline and the pending charter amendment on today's ballot. More...
