The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has sued two tiny townships that banned shale-gas wastewater disposal wells, setting the state on a collision course with municipalities over who governs oil and gas operations within a town’s local boundaries. The DEP filed suits Monday in Commonwealth Court against Highland Township, Elk County, […]
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Rights of Nature: A New Paradigm for Environmental Protection with Mari Margil
Fundamental Change Unprecedented species extinction, ecosystem collapse, and climate change evidence the failure of mainstream environmentalism. A global movement is growing to advance fundamental change in the relationship between humankind and the natural world — by eliminating the key barriers to environmental protection and sustainability (including corporate “rights” and powers), and […]
Left with no other choice, local pipeline opponents must protest
MARK CLATTERBUCK | Special to LNP Feb 12, 2017 “On Feb. 3, the dangerous marriage of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and billionaire energy companies was on full display. For three years, residents of Lancaster County have demonstrated unprecedented opposition to the proposed Atlantic Sunrise pipeline. Yet when Williams gas […]
Oil, coal train protesters in Spokane file federal lawsuit claiming climate change protections
UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, FEB. 1, 2017, 3:13 P.M. By Kip Hill [email protected] (509) 459-5429 Self-proclaimed “Raging Grannies” and other protesters who were arrested last year for blocking rail traffic sued the federal government Tuesday, alleging violations of their constitutional right to a livable climate. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in […]
The Destructive Power of Preemption: How It Will Be Used by Congress to Halt State Action on Climate
By John Upton [1] / Climate Central [2] January 12, 2017 This article originally appeared on Climate Central [2]. The head of the city department that drafts many of San Francisco’s greenest rules and regulations uses one word to explain her greatest fear for the environment during Donald Trump’s presidency: “preemption.” If some of the deepest concerns […]
National Community Rights Network Finalizes 28th Amendment Proposal
Contact: Tom Groover, [email protected], 303-709-3327 www.nationalcommunityrightsnetwork.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 5, 2015 The 12 member Board of Directors of the National Community Rights Network (NCRN) met at Snow Mountain Ranch in Granby, CO in October for their annual meeting during which they approved a proposed 28th amendment to the US […]
Firing Big Green: Are National Environmental Groups Really Serving the People?
In the 2011 film Moneyball, the Oakland Athletics baseball team is perennially short of money, and thus always being beaten by richer teams in the playoffs. Knowing that they can never compete dollar for dollar, A’s general manager Billy Beane (played by Brad Pitt) realizes that they’ll never get to […]