Blocks Youngstown Drinking Water Protection Initiative from May ballot; community turns to Ohio Supreme Court A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from March 19, 2018. YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO: For the second time in six months, the Mahoning County Board of Elections (BOE) unanimously blocked Youngstown residents from voting on a duly qualified citizen [...]
One-third of state legislature supports Community Rights Amendment; momentum building to advance rights A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from March 16, 2018. Yesterday, the New Hampshire House debated and voted on CACR19, the NH Community Rights Amendment, which received one-third of the legislators’ support. This is the first Community Rights state [...]
A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from February 28th, 2018. OREGON: Tomorrow evening, Carol Van Strum will receive the David Brower Lifetime Achievement Award at a public ceremony in Eugene, Oregon. The international honor is named after David Brower, one of the founders of the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and [...]
Strong citizen support helps advance CACR19 to House M&CG committee A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from February 19th, 2018. CONCORD, NH: Last week, the New Hampshire Community Rights Amendment, CACR19, left House Municipal & County Government (M&CG) subcommittee with a 3-2 bi-partisan “ought-to-pass” recommendation. Community members from across the state attended [...]
Residents ban unsustainable energy projects at Special Town Meeting A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from February 1, 2018. Last night, residents at a Special Town Meeting in Plymouth, NH, voted 132 to 19 to adopt their Community Rights-Based Ordinance for a Sustainable Energy Future. The ordinance asserts their right to clean [...]
Measure would secure the right of local community self-government A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from January 23, 2018. As communities across the country face growing efforts by state governments to block residents from governing themselves, New Hampshire residents are advancing a state constitutional amendment to secure that unalienable right. The proposed [...]
This letter by the Grant Township of Pennsylvania Supervisors was published on the Community Legal Defense Fund's (CELDF) website, January 12, 2018. Today the elected supervisors of Grant Township, PA, responded to the sanctions against Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) attorneys who have “defended our community’s right to stop a toxic frack wastewater injection [...]
Court Awards $52,000 to Oil and Gas Company and Calls for Disciplinary Action Against Attorney A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from January 5th, 2018. Today, the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania issued an order imposing sanctions on two attorneys defending a Community Bill of Rights Ordinance [...]
Private landowner on Kaua’i legally recognizes nature’s rights through conservation easement A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from December 20, 2017. For the first time, ecosystems and natural communities on eight acres of land on the island of Kaua’i possess legal rights to exist, thrive, regenerate, and evolve. This is the first [...]
A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from December 7th, 2017. Right of local community self-government advances Yesterday, the Ohio Ballot Board unanimously approved two proposed state constitutional amendments, determining they each meet the single subject requirement. A legal representative of the people, community members, and several members of the Ohio Community Rights [...]
