Proposal would seek to ban certain new fossil fuel infrastructure from city property This article by Peter Kuebeck originally appeared in the Sentinal-Tribune, September 6, 2017. After weeks of questions, the Wood County Board of Elections voted this morning to place a proposed Bowling Green charter amendment on the November ballot. MORE...
This letter to the editor by Terra Rafael originally appeared in the Daily Camera, September 1, 2017. We live in an oil and gas colony. We must admit the facts before we can address a problem properly. MORE...
Citizens challenge HB463 as officials use it to block county charter initiatives banning fracking A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from August 22, 2017. Broadview Heights, OH: Athens and Medina County, OH, residents, are taking their right to vote on initiatives creating county charters to the Ohio Supreme Court. County Boards of [...]
This article by Jan Larson McLaughlin originally appeared in BG Independent News, August 18, 2107. The petition to get a pipeline issue on Bowling Green’s November ballot cleared its first hurdle Friday – just barely. A total of 1,230 signatures were collected on the petition. By law, to make it on the ballot, the petition [...]
This article by Tish O'Dell originally appeared in the Columbus Free Press, August 18, 2017. In several “news” articles posted over the past few weeks, oil and gas industry and their allies argue that a local Community Bill of Rights ballot initiative submitted by Youngstown voters is “too expensive” for the community. MORE...
This article by David Skolnick originally appeared on Vindy.com, August 11th, 2017. A vote from the Mahoning County Board of Elections to keep a Youngstown anti-fracking charter amendment off the Nov. 7 ballot isn’t going to happen for a few more weeks. MORE...
A Blog Posting by Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from August 7, 2017. Communities across the country face preemption by their own state and federal governments as they fight to protect themselves from environmental harms, religious persecution, gender and sexual orientation discrimination, and economic exploitation. Communities adopt laws to advance rights and protect their [...]
This article by David DeWitt originally appeared in The Athens News, August 2, 2017 A group proposing a charter for Athens County has filed a protest with the Ohio Secretary of State against the local elections board’s rejection of the charter for the ballot, a move that a local judge upheld. MORE...
This article by David DeWitt originally appeared in the Athens News, July 26, 2017. Athens Common Pleas Court Judge George McCarthy reversed part of his decision regarding a proposed county charter initiative, ruling that the proposal did in fact have enough valid signatures. MORE...
This article by Eric Tegethoff originally appeared in the Public News Service, July 25, 2017. The Siletz River ecosystem could take some novel legal action in an Oregon case over a measure banning aerial pesticides. In May, Lincoln County residents passed a measure outlawing the spraying of pesticides from aircraft. The measure is the first [...]