Press Releases from Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund Archives - Page 10 of 14

Ohio Residents Fight for Rights: Submit State Constitutional Amendments to Guarantee Right to Local Self-Government

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 [...]

By Curt Hubatch|2017-11-17T17:27:43-08:00November 17th, 2017|Dillon's Rule, Press Releases from Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, State & Federal Preemption, State Community Rights Networks & their founding Declarations|

As Part of Growing Community Rights Movement, New Hampshire Legislators Considers State Constitutional Amendment

Measure would secure the right of local community self-government A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from November 14, 2017. Representative Ellen Read of Rockingham District 17 recently introduced a rights-based state constitutional amendment to guarantee the people in towns throughout New Hampshire the authority to enact local laws to protect the environment, [...]

By Curt Hubatch|2017-11-15T10:27:41-08:00November 14th, 2017|Press Releases from Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, State Community Rights Networks & their founding Declarations|

Coos Bay Estuary Speaks Out Against FERC

Motion to intervene filed by Estuary is part of growing Rights of Nature movement A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from November 13, 2017. The Coos Bay Estuary has filed a notice of intervention with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). This is believed to be the first time that an ecosystem [...]

By Curt Hubatch|2017-11-14T10:32:22-08:00November 13th, 2017|Press Releases from Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Regulatory Agencies & Laws (Federal & State), Rights of Nature|

Youngstown Residents Circulating Petitions for Water Protection Law

Living embodiment of group motto “We Don’t Lose Until We Quit” Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from November 8, 2017. Registered voters in Youngstown, OH, were denied their right to vote today on their Water Protection Bill of Rights city charter amendment. However, as polls opened this morning, organizers were out in [...]

By Curt Hubatch|2017-11-08T16:30:15-08:00November 8th, 2017|Press Releases from Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, State & Federal Preemption, Supreme Courts - Federal & State|

Bowling Green Residents Tip OH Supreme Court in their Favor, Win Fight for Right to Vote

HB 463 – corporate state legislation to block citizen initiative – struck by Court A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from October 19, 2017. BOWLING GREEN, OHIO: Today, the Ohio Supreme Court affirmed the right of Bowling Green residents to vote, ordering their first-in-the-state Right to Climate charter amendment on the November [...]

By Curt Hubatch|2017-10-22T19:07:49-07:00October 19th, 2017|Press Releases from Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, State & Federal Preemption, Supreme Courts - Federal & State|

Ohio Supreme Court denies effort to keep BG charter amendment off ballot

This article by Peter Kuebeck originally appeared in the Sentinal-Tribune, October 19th, 2017. Two weeks after the most recent filing in the case, the Ohio Supreme Court has denied a lawsuit by a Bowling Green resident, allowing a proposed charter amendment to remain on the ballot. MORE...

By Curt Hubatch|2017-10-22T17:15:45-07:00October 19th, 2017|News Stories: Local, Press Releases from Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Supreme Courts - Federal & State|

Split Decision in Ohio Supreme Court for Youngstown Ballot Initiatives

4-3 decision denies the right to vote, unites residents across the state A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from October 7, 2017. While a split decision by the Ohio Supreme Court is blocking Youngstown residents from voting on two rights-based ballot measures this November, pressure is building as state legislators and local [...]

By Curt Hubatch|2017-10-11T19:35:33-07:00October 7th, 2017|Press Releases from Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, State & Federal Preemption, Supreme Courts - Federal & State|

Judge Strikes Portions of Democratically-Enacted Charter Banning Frack Waste

A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from October 2, 2017. Rules Township Residents Must Accept Injection Well; Closes Courtroom Door to the People of Highland Township Last week, Magistrate Judge Susan Paradise Baxter issued a decision invalidating provisions of Highland Township’s Home Rule Charter, which protected the Township from frack wastewater. The [...]

By Curt Hubatch|2017-10-11T19:50:20-07:00October 2nd, 2017|Press Releases from Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Regulatory Agencies & Laws (Federal & State), State & Federal Preemption, Supreme Courts - Federal & State|

People’s Constitutional Right to Form Charter Government Stricken by Ohio Supreme Court

Court Creates Unattainable Mandate for People A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from September 21, 2017. COLUMBUS, OHIO: Today, the Ohio Supreme Court struck a blow to the people’s constitutional right to use citizen initiative to propose a county charter form of government. MORE...

By Curt Hubatch|2017-10-12T05:47:17-07:00September 21st, 2017|Press Releases from Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, State & Federal Preemption, State Community Rights Networks & their founding Declarations, Supreme Courts - Federal & State|

Colorado River v. State of Colorado: In a First-in-the-Nation Federal Lawsuit, River Seeks Recognition of its Legal Rights to Exist, Restoration

A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from September 21, 2017. The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is serving as a legal adviser for the first-in-the-nation lawsuit in which a river is seeking recognition of its legal rights. MORE...

By Curt Hubatch|2017-10-12T06:01:03-07:00September 21st, 2017|Indigenous Voices, Press Releases from Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Rights of Nature, Supreme Courts - Federal & State|