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State & Federal Preemption

Video Interview: Amend To Protect New Hampshire’s People, Communities and Nature from Corporate Harm

This 46 minute video interview was posted on the National Community Rights Network (NCRN) website, January 31st, 2018. Tom Groover interviews New Hampshire community organizers Michelle Sanborn, Monica Christofill and Douglas Darrell. Michelle and Monica are organizers with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), and Douglas is a Board member of the NHCRN and the NCRN. Michelle begins [...]

By |2018-02-27T18:53:20-08:00January 31st, 2018|Dillon's Rule, Interviews with Community Rights People, Regulatory Agencies & Laws (Federal & State), Rights of Nature, State & Federal Preemption, State Community Rights Networks & their founding Declarations, Supreme Courts - Federal & State, Video|
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Plymouth residents take aim at Northern Pass with new ordinance

This article by Bea Lewis appeared in the New Hampshire Union Leader, January 31st, 2018. PLYMOUTH — Residents have adopted an ordinance they believe will give them the authority to ban Northern Pass from building within town borders. During a special town meeting on Thursday, residents voted by secret ballot 132 to 19 to adopt [...]

By |2018-02-27T18:55:17-08:00January 31st, 2018|American Revolution & Our Two Federal Constitutions, News Stories: Local, State & Federal Preemption|
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Pingree backs bill to ban states from blocking municipal high-speed internet projects

The federal legislation would overturn laws in 17 states and prevent a reintroduction of such a measure in Maine. This article by Colin Woodward was published in The Evening Express, January 29, 2018. Last year a legislative panel unanimously rejected a bill drafted by a secretive group that would have made it nearly impossible for communities [...]

By |2018-02-06T18:11:18-08:00January 29th, 2018|News Stories: State & Regional, State & Federal Preemption|
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Video Interview: Protecting Lake Erie’s Right to Exist with the Lake Erie Bill of Rights

This one hour video interview was posted on the National Community Rights Network (NCRN) website, January 29th, 2018. Tom Groover has an INCREDIBLE conversation with grassroots activists Markie Miller and Will Falk about recognizing and protecting the Rights of Nature through local law-making as a legal solution to a fixed governmental/corporate state system. This fixed system places [...]

By |2018-02-02T12:28:54-08:00January 29th, 2018|Critiques of Existing Activism through a Community Rights Lens, Interviews with Community Rights People, Regulatory Agencies & Laws (Federal & State), Rights of Nature, Speeches & Presentations by Community Rights People, State & Federal Preemption, Supreme Courts - Federal & State, Video|
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Dem and GOP Mayors Agree: States Must Stop Preempting Local Laws

This article by Rachel Dovey appeared in Next City, January 24, 2018. In a year marked by fires, hurricanes, drastic temperatures and $306 billion in climate-related damages, two-thirds of U.S. mayors believe that cities should take action on climate change, even if their efforts will cost them. Reflecting national trends, however, their views are highly [...]

By |2018-02-02T08:19:39-08:00January 24th, 2018|News Stories: National & International, State & Federal Preemption|
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Nonprofit Legal Firm Ordered to Pay for its Defense of Anti-Fracking City Ordinance

This article by Lauren Karch appeared in Nonprofit Quarterly, January 22nd, 2018. January 10, 2018; Rolling Stone Rolling Stone reported earlier this month that a federal judge has issued what could be a groundbreaking sanction on a nonprofit law firm. The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) was ordered in early January to pay $52,000 [...]

By |2018-02-02T08:03:23-08:00January 22nd, 2018|Dillon's Rule, State & Federal Preemption, Supreme Courts - Federal & State|
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When we fight, we win

First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. A Blog Posting by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from January 21, 2018. The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund in 1995 In the 1990’s, CELDF was a conventional environmental law firm. We believed that if only there were more [...]

By |2018-01-25T11:11:48-08:00January 21st, 2018|Blogs from Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Dillon's Rule, Regulatory Agencies & Laws (Federal & State), Rights of Nature, State & Federal Preemption, Supreme Courts - Federal & State|
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Urgent Ohio Democracy Alert from the OHCRN

This alert was published on January 19, 2018 by the Ohio Community Rights Network.   House Joint Resolution 5 (HJR 5), introduced in fall 2017 in both house of the Ohio General Assembly, would dramatically change the already-difficult process to amend the Ohio Constitution and is stealthily making its way through the Ohio General Assembly. MORE...  

By |2018-01-23T15:54:54-08:00January 19th, 2018|State & Federal Preemption, State Community Rights Networks & their founding Declarations|
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Court Orders Nonprofit Law Firm to Pay $52,000 to Oil and Gas Company for Defending Local Fracking Waste Ban

This article by Simon Davis-Cohen appeared on Desmog, January 17, 2018. In early January, a federal judge ordered the nonprofit law firm Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) to pay $52,000 to an oil and gas exploration company for defending a rural Pennsylvania township’s ban on underground injections of frack waste. This sanction comes at the [...]

By |2018-01-23T15:21:26-08:00January 17th, 2018|Dillon's Rule, News Stories: Local, News Stories: State & Regional, Rights of Nature, State & Federal Preemption, Supreme Courts - Federal & State|
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Grant Township, PA: Sanctions against our lawyers “badge of courage”

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 [...]

By |2018-01-17T10:35:52-08:00January 12th, 2018|Dillon's Rule, Editorials & Letters to the Editor, Press Releases, Press Releases from Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Regulatory Agencies & Laws (Federal & State), State & Federal Preemption, Supreme Courts - Federal & State|
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