Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund

Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
View In: Community Environmental Legal Defense FundOn August 2, 2014, Toledo residents awoke to government alerts to not drink, bathe, use or touch the water coming out of their taps. The water could make adult humans very sick and even worse for babies, children, and anyone with compromised immune systems. Fish, animals, and plants weren’t even considered...

Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
View In: Community Environmental Legal Defense FundThe prospect of liability introduced by conferral of personhood status monetizes the relationship between humans and the rest of nature. The post CELDF Response to “Can granting legal ‘personhood’ to nature stem biodiversity loss?” by Viktoria Kahui appeared first on CELDF.

Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
View In: Community Environmental Legal Defense FundOn May 20, 2024, Rockland Sierra Club, Lower Hudson Group and ROAR (Religious Orders Along the River) hosted this conversation titled: SHOULD RIVERS AND TREES HAVE LEGAL RIGHTS? A new movement is growing around the rights of nature, arguing that rivers, lakes, and forests should have legal rights fo...

Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
View In: Community Environmental Legal Defense FundFeature photo by Brian Yurasits FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 7, 2024 Contact: Tish O’Dell tish@celdf.org 440-552-6774 Terry Lodge, Attorney CELDF tjlodge50@yahoo.com 419-205-7084 Athens Local Businesses Support Rights of Nature and the City’s Plastic Bag Ban in Amicus Curiae  OHIO, Athens County – CELD...

Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
View In: Community Environmental Legal Defense FundFeature photo by Christine Roy Like Junk Mail, Junk Speech is Trash Talk Freedom of speech isn’t what it used to be. Toward the end of the 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st, its definition was changed in two unprecedented rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court. Today, what’s called free speec...

Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
View In: Community Environmental Legal Defense FundThe Great Salt Lake. Image by Erin Testone. A growing number of American jurisdictions are outlawing Right of Nature as we embark on the greatest rates of extinctions in our planetary history.  In this essay, Will Falk, encourages Rights of Nature advocates to recognize that we cannot wait for court...