This press release appeared in The Forum on May 4th, 2019. The Nottingham Water Alliance (NWA) has retained the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) to represent them in defending the Freedom from Chemical Trespass Ordinance. A challenge has been brought by Brent Tweed of G&F Goods, LLC in Rockingham Superior Court. The Ordinance was [...]
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 [...]
This month’s biggest excitement for me is that I get to announce that we have finally launched our comprehensive database of Community Rights ordinances (i.e. municipal and county laws) that have been enacted since our movement began in 1999! Hundreds of hours of research time have gone into this monumental task - achieved entirely by [...]
A Press Release from New Hampshire State Representative Ellen Read (D) on January 5th, 2019. This press release can be found on the Ellen4NH Facebook page. Ellen has re-introduced the New Hampshire Community Rights Constitutional Amendment (Article 40) which, if passed by both houses of the Legislature and signed by the Governor, will expand and [...]
Letter invites Trades to join in campaign to protect lake, create jobs A Press Release from the Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie (ACLE), from January 2nd, 2019. TOLEDO – Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie (ACLE) today sent a letter to Shaun Enright, Executive Secretary of the NW Ohio Building and Construction Trades, asking [...]
This press release appeared on the New Hampshire Community Rights Network's website, December 28th, 2018. Good news: Newmarket’s Town Council Water Rights Subcommittee members are recommending Newmarket’s Town Council seriously consider future resident-proposed Rights-based Ordinances (RBOs). Bad news: They’re not recommending adoption of the current resident-proposed RBO, the Newmarket Freedom From Chemical Trespass Rights-based Ordinance that seeks [...]
Lake Erie Bill of Rights Campaign to Continue A Press Release from Toledoans for Safe Water, from December 11, 2018. Toledo, OH: At a meeting held on Monday, December 10, to certify the Lake Erie Bill of Rights (LEBOR) to the special election ballot in February, the Lucas County Board of Elections instead received a [...]
This open letter written by the Columbus Community Bill of Rights (CCBOR) citizen group was posted on Facebook, October 9th, 2018. The letter was written after the Ohio Supreme Court recently blocked their extraordinary efforts to put their Community Bill of Rights in front of the Columbus, Ohio voters on the November, 2018 ballot. Dear [...]
A Press Release by the Columbus Community Bill of Rights (CCBOR) and posted on the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund's website on September 8th, 2018. Columbus, OH: On Friday, several corporate lobbyist groups filed amicus briefs to the Ohio Supreme Court in the rapidly-moving lawsuit brought by Columbus Community Bill of Rights (CCBOR) to have an initiated Community [...]
Lucas County Board of Elections stymies voting rights of the people of Toledo, Ohio A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from August 28, 2018. TOLEDO, OH: Today, the Lucas County Board of Elections (BOE) voted to keep a Toledo citizen’s initiative entitled The Lake Erie Bill of Rights off the November ballot, despite residents qualifying [...]
