Report Reveals True Election Meddlers and Outsiders A press release by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund published on April 6th, 2019. Toledo, OH: Yesterday, the post-election campaign finance reports from the February 2019 Special Election revealed that out-of-state opponents of the Lake Erie Bill of Rights (LEBOR) spent almost 50 times as much as [...]
Court Ruling: Grant Township Owes $100,000 to Company Seeking to Dump Frack Waste in Community A press release issued by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund on April 1st, 2019: GRANT TOWNSHIP, INDIANA COUNTY, PA: On April 1, federal Judge Susan Paradise Baxter issued an order that was not a joke: Grant Township (pop. 741), Baxter declared, [...]
CACR8 is denied advancement by the New Hampshire House A press release published by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) on March 25th, 2019. CONCORD, NH: Last week, the NH Community Rights Amendment, CACR8, went before the state House of Representatives and was blocked from advancing to a vote by New Hampshire citizens. CACR8 would guarantee [...]
Industry lawsuit seeks to overturn will of voters to protect Lake Erie’s legal rights A press release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund issued on March 19th, 2019. TOLEDO, OH: Today, Lake Erie filed a motion to intervene in federal court to defend its legal rights under a law adopted by the people of Toledo, Ohio, [...]
Nottingham residents codify their right to a healthy climate and Freedom from Chemical Trespass Ordinance A press release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund issued on March 17th, 2019. Nottingham, NH: Last night, residents at Town Meeting in Nottingham, NH, adopted a Rights-based Ordinance asserting their right to a healthy climate, clean air, pure water, [...]
Exeter residents build on growing rights-based efforts to stop climate change A press release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund published on, March 13th, 2019. EXETER, NH: At annual Town Meeting yesterday, Exeter residents voted 1176 to 1007 to adopt their Right to a Healthy Climate Ordinance. This is the first right-based climate law in the state [...]
First law securing the rights of a plant species to exist and flourish A press release by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) issued, February 6th, 2019. MERCERSBURG, PA: The White Earth Band of Ojibwe – part of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe – adopted a Rights of Manoomin law. The law protects legal rights of manoomin, or [...]
A press release issued by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, February 4th, 2019. Youngstown, OH: Members of seven Ohio community groups — from the cities of Youngstown, Toledo and Columbus, as well as Portage, Medina, Athens and Meigs counties — have filed suit against their respective Boards of Elections and the Ohio Secretary of [...]
A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from January 9th, 2019. With a 70-percent affirmative vote of its membership, the National Lawyers Guild has incorporated advancement of “the rights of ecosystems” into its Guild Constitution. The National Lawyers Guild Constitution’s Preamble now reads: “The National Lawyers Guild is an association dedicated to the need for [...]
Granite Staters calling for state constitutional change to secure communities’ local self-governing rights. A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from January 4th, 2019. CONCORD, NH: This week, State House Representative Ellen Read of Rockingham District 17 reintroduced a rights-based state constitutional amendment. CACR 8 guarantees the authority of people in towns throughout New Hampshire to [...]
