The state's highest civil court has ruled that Laredo's ban on plastic bags violates state law. This article by Emma Platoff appeared in the Texas Tribune, June 22nd, 2018. Brief commentary by Community Rights US Media Team member Curt Hubatch: One sentence in the last paragraph of this article caught my attention and really spoke [...]
This Guest OpEd by Paul Cienfuegos appeared in The Decorah Newspaper, June 15th, 2018. Brief note by Community Rights US media team member Curt Hubatch: The title that Paul proposed to the editors at The Decorah Newspaper was, "Can we stop large corporations from interfering in our local elections? Yes we can!” They did not include [...]
This 30 minute audio interview with Thomas Linzey was posted on David Swanson's "Lets Try Democracy" website, June 12th, 2018. Thomas Linzey is an attorney and the Executive Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) – a nonprofit law firm that has provided free legal services to over five hundred local governments and [...]
This Op-Ed by Greg Coleridge appeared on Op-Ed News.com, June 4th, 2018. Rising anger against the seemingly omnipotent power of corporations to dictate nearly every aspect of society has yielded predictable pushback from corporations and their minions (i.e. human, not small yellow creatures) in government. Laws against mass protests and stronger regulatory protections and increasing [...]
"A Phoenix from the Ashes," an article about resurrecting a constitutional Right of Local, Community Self-Government in the name of environmental sustainability, was published in the Arizona Journal of Environmental Law and Policy (AJELP) back in January of 2018. More details and links below. CELDF’s Executive Director Thomas Linzey, Esq. and attorney Daniel E. Brannen, [...]
This article by Cliff Willmeng originally appeared on the Willmeng for Grassroots Power webpage, May 26th, 2018. Since 2012 the Lafayette City Council has fought against any significant effort threatening to disrupt oil and gas drilling operations. This is demonstrated by the actions of politicians in Lafayette throughout the course of the ongoing campaign to [...]
For decades our laws have been a death sentence for the environment. Now, from the Amazon to Australia, the tide is turning This Op-ed by Mari Margil appeared in The Guardian, May 23, 2018. The Amazon rainforest is often called the earth’s lungs, and generates 20% of the world’s oxygen. Yet in the past half-century nearly [...]
This 15 minute audio interview with Merrily Mazza and Kai Huschka aired on the Jefferson Exchange, and was posted on the Jefferson Public Radio's website, May 22, 2018. It can be listened to HERE. A brief commentary by Community Rights US Media Team member Curt Hubatch: Cliff Willmeng once said of Merrily Mazza, his mother [...]
State and Local Elected Officials Defend Township’s Right to Protect Itself A Press Release from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, from May 21st, 2018. GRANT TOWNSHIP, INDIANA COUNTY, PA: Last month, Pennsylvania General Energy Company (PGE) continued its harassment of Grant Township, attempting to recover more than $100,000 from the Township in attorney’s fees. In 2014, [...]
A Blog Posting by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), from May 16, 2018. According to recent polls, only 20% of Americans know how many U.S. Senators there are, and only one in seven young Americans could identify either Iraq or Afghanistan on a world map. A majority of Americans were unable to name more than one [...]
