Despite its previous failure to pass ballot measures in Ohio – at the expense of taxpayers – and a federal judge ruling its far-reaching “rights of nature” initiatives are “unconstitutionally vague and exceeds the power of municipal government in Ohio,” the Pennsylvania-based Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is at it again. CELDF, in partnership
Read More...Voters, taxpayers and lawyers in the city of Youngstown, OH will be spared from a ninth iteration of an anti-fracking charter amendment this year, as backers of the “Community Bill of Rights” failed to submit required documents to the local board of elections to have the measure placed on the ballot. Despite repeated failures at
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. As usual, emphasis is added. FERC Blows Away DEC FERC is firing on Andrew Cuomo’s DEC with the big guns now. It just rejected
Read More...Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund founder Thomas Linzey has made it clear that he has no issue with bankrupting towns to push his anti-energy “Rights of Nature” agenda. For one rural community in Pennsylvania, that’s exactly what could happen following a federal court ruling this week that found the Indiana County township financially responsible for
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. Though repeatedly warned, Grant Township let itself be used by the radical CELDF as a tool to trigger a Marxist-type revolution, and is now going to pay. Last month I wrote about how even the anti-gas Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office had identified just how dangerous the Community Environmental Legal Defense
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