Lincoln County in Oregon passed an ordinance that banned aerial pesticide spraying a few years back. The logging corporation sued. The judge didn’t make a decision for more than a year. And when she finally did, she overruled the CR law. The hearing for the appeal is today! Press Release Measure 21-177 Aerial Spray Ban [...]
Published November 3, 2020 in the Pittsburgh Business Times By Paul J. Gough – Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times The long-delayed Mountain Valley Pipeline is being pushed back further and with further costs. The controversial 303-mile pipeline that will carry Marcellus and Utica natural gas through West Virginia and Virginia will not be in service until the [...]
Opponents argue the legislation makes it harder to get an issue on the ballot. By Jacob Ogles, published on March 24, 2020 by Florida Politics A growing number of advocacy groups called on Gov. Ron DeSantis to veto a bill increasing barriers for proposed constitutional amendments to make the ballot. A coalition of 13 organizations, [...]
This article by Jon Hurdle appeared on State Impact Pennsylvania's website on March 27, 2020. Advocates for increased local control over Pennsylvania’s oil and gas industry welcomed a decision by environmental regulators to revoke their own permit for an injection well to be built in a rural township, on the grounds that the well would [...]
State preemption is one of the legal doctrines that Community Rights lawmaking challenges. Time after time citizen majorities have formed in communities to enact and enforce laws that make life easier for the many instead of the few. And more often than not state and federal levels of government step in to deny citizens their [...]
Paul Cienfuegos, Community Rights US Founder and Director, was recently contacted by a Community Rights colleague directly effected by the state government's reaction to local municipalities attempting to protect their constituent's health, safety and welfare in parts of South Carolina. This contact is what led us to the news story below. Here is what Paul [...]
The movement to legally enshrine the rights of species and ecosystems has been gaining steam worldwide This article by Helen Hill was published in Street Roots News on March 6th, 2020. In a letter to Washington Gov. Jay Inslee dated Feb. 11, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown offered her full support for removal of the four [...]
This article by Tom Henry was published in The Blade on February 27th, 2019. The Lake Erie Bill of Rights was invalidated Thursday night by U.S. District Judge Jack Zouhary, who said in an eight-page ruling that his decision was “not a close call” because he believes the citizen-led referendum — though approved by [...]
This article by Tom Henry appeared in the Toledo Blade on January 28th, 2019. A downtown Toledo courtroom was filled to capacity Tuesday when U.S. District Judge Jack Zouhary heard arguments for two hours over whether Toledo’s Lake Erie Bill of Rights is constitutional or not. A ruling is expected at a later date. The plaintiffs, [...]
This article by Jerry Iannelli appeared in the Miami New Times on January 7th, 2020. In 2018, the City of Miami finally, after years and years of bellyaching and protest from residents, launched a pilot project to force developers in one tiny downtown neighborhood to include affordable-housing units in every building they construct henceforth. The move was [...]
