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 [...]
This 1 minute audio and text news story by Nick Evans was posted on WOSU Public Media's website on August 24th, 2018. Columbus Ohio -- The Franklin County Board of Elections has rejected the "Columbus Community Bill of Rights," a ballot issue that would have banned fracking within city limits. Supporters of the initiative erupted [...]
BOE refuses to place duly qualified Community Bill of Rights citizen initiative on the November ballot A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from August 24th, 2018. COLUMBUS, OH: Today, the Franklin County Board of Elections effectively stripped 560,000 Columbus citizens of their right to vote on a ballot measure entitled Community Bill of Rights [...]
THE PEOPLE’S INITIATIVE CODIFIES THE RIGHT TO CLEAN WATER, AIR, AND SOIL AND PROHIBITS GAS AND OIL EXTRACTION AND RELATED ACTIVITIES A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from August 23, 2018. At a special meeting of the Franklin County Board of Elections (BOE), Friday, August 24 at 10:30 am, the Columbus Community Bill [...]
No justice in Athens County as residents are denied right to vote on qualified citizen initiative This press release by The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) was published, August 17th, 2018. ATHENS, OHIO: On August 8th, the Fourth District Court of Appeals dismissed the Athens County Bill of Rights Committee’s (ACBORC) appeal to place [...]
A Blog Posting by Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from August 13th, 2018. Government exists to protect our rights, health, safety, and welfare We have government to protect our rights, health, safety, and welfare. That’s fundamental to our theory of government. When a legislature enacts a law that isn’t rationally connected to [...]
This Op-Ed by Bill Lyons appeared in the August issue of the Columbus Free Press. Most Columbus residents assume that our city is safe from the fracking industry. It is not. There are currently 13 injection wells of toxic radioactive frack waste in the Upper Scioto Watershed area, Columbus’ source water protection area. This waste [...]
This article by Lauren Sega appeared in the The Columbus Underground, July 3oth, 2018. After two previous attempts, the anti-fracking Columbus Community Bill of Rights (CBR) is one step closer to appearing on the November ballot. Columbus City Council is set to approve the ordinance for the ballot at their meeting on Monday, July 30, before [...]
This article by April Feagley appeared in The Daily News, July 27, 2018. A special meeting of the Todd Township Supervisors was held Thursday night to come to a decision on whether to rescind or defend a recently- adopted ordinance. A 2-1 vote was passed to retain legal representation to fight for the community bill [...]
The city's trapping debacle last week has sparked a conversation about the reaches of the city's Climate Bill of Rights This article by Anthony Hahn appeared in the Daily Camera, July 26th, 2018. Last week, as dozens of prairie dogs marked for eradication sat caged for hours in the sweltering afternoon heat, advocates calling on Lafayette [...]
