The Bradford Era: Publication describes liabilities townships face over bill...
The PA State Association of Township Supervisors disparages CELDF's work, while others see through the smokescreen to the real issue at hand: communities fighting to protect their health, safety, and...
View ArticleEcoWatch: This Pennsylvania Community Is Determined to Ban GMOs and Pesticides
Lancaster County, PA, residents recognize it's not enough to label GMO food. They want to ban it. Using community rights, residents are organizing to assert their right to be GMO and pesticide-free....
View ArticleChad Nicholson of CELDF speaks in Potter County, PA
CELDF's Chad Nicholson presents on community rights in Potter County, PA, where residents face fracking. The post Chad Nicholson of CELDF speaks in Potter County, PA appeared first on CELDF.
View ArticlePress Release: Grant Township, PA: The People Left Out of Court Decision
A U.S. District Court finds in favor of corporations to site a frack wastewater injection well in Grant Township, PA - ignoring the will and the rights of the people who live there. Grant residents...
View ArticleState Impact: Federal court rejects township’s waste water disposal ban
While a federal judge finds in favor of the oil and gas industry to force frack wastewater into Grant Township, PA, the decision also reveals to growing numbers of people the unjust structure of law...
View ArticleDeSmog Blog: Communities Pushing For Legal Rights To Regain Power Over...
As the fracking industry pushes into communities against the will of the people, growing numbers of communities across the U.S. are using community rights in their grassroots organizing to challenge...
View ArticleThe Indiana Gazette: Grant Township voters to decide on home rule charter
Grant Township, PA, residents will vote this week on becoming a home rule township through a rights-based charter. The charter establishes the residents' rights to clean air, water, and local...
View ArticlePress Release: Despite Court Ruling, Grant Township Bans Fracking Injection...
The people of Grant Township, PA, adopt the first rights-based charter in the country banning frack wastewater injection wells, two weeks after a federal judge overturned portions of a Community Bill...
View ArticlePress Release: West Chester, PA, Voters Adopt Community Rights Charter...
The people of West Chester, PA, vote overwhelmingly to assert their community rights and ban fracking activities from their borough. They join dozens of other communities across the state - and the...
View ArticlePittsburgh Business Times: This town hates frack waste so much it refuted a...
Grant Township, PA, residents refuse to accept a federal judge's ruling in favor of a fracking corporation that wants to site an injection well. Instead, they adopted their own community rights home...
View ArticleCommon Dreams: No Longer Willing to be Bullied and Fracked, How One...
Grant Township is the first community in the U.S. to draft and adopt their municipal charter based entirely on community rights. In so doing, they reinstated a fracking ban that had been overturned by...
View ArticleNovember Elections Update
Learn the latest news from election day in Grant Township and West Chester, PA; Youngstown, OH; and Spokane, WA. And check out the launch of our new website! The post November Elections Update appeared...
View ArticleTwo Landslide Wins in PA
In November, both Grant Township and West Chester Borough, PA, residents adopt community rights measures to assert their authority for self-determination and to protect themselves from fracking...
View ArticleChris Hedges Interviews Thomas Linzey: The Revolution Will be Local
Check out Chris Hedges interviewing Thomas Linzey, Executive Director of CELDF, and Marc Clatterbuck, professor and resident of Lancaster County, PA, where communities are fighting to stop a pipeline...
View ArticlePA Township News: Pre-emptive State Laws and Corporate ‘Rights’ Are Fraught...
CELDF responds to inaccuracies presented by the general counselor to the Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Association regarding Community Bills of Rights and our organization. The post PA Township News:...
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