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Subject: Spring 2014 Newsletter - Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund<br>To: <a href="mailto:BLACKDANTHEMAN100@gmail.com">BLACKDANTHEMAN100@gmail.com</a><br><br><br><u></u>
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<span style="color:rgb(80,89,99);font-size:12px;line-height:18px">Hi </span><span style="color:rgb(80,89,99);font-size:12px;line-height:18px">Daniel</span><span style="color:rgb(80,89,99);font-size:12px;line-height:18px">,</span></h1>
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Check out our Spring newsletter to get up-to-date on our work in the first quarter of 2014:</p>
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New Hampshire residents make a Community Rights sweep in March, with three Towns adopting CELDF-drafted Community Bills of Rights at Town Meeting.</li>
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In response to Lafayette, CO's, Community Bill of Rights banning commercial oil and gas extraction, the industry is now attacking communities' rights to ban harmful extractive practices. Communities are responding with a proposed CELDF-drafted Community Rights state constitutional amendment.</li>
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<span style="text-align:left"><span>Our legal team is at work to protect Mora County, NM, and Highland Township, PA's, Community Bills of Rights banning fracking and related activities from corporate challenges.</span></span></li>
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<span style="text-align:left"><span>Our work moves forward in Oregon, supporting Community Rights grassroots organizing in the Willamette Valley and beyond.</span></span></li>
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To read more, check out the Spring issue of our newsletter, <i><a href="http://out02.thedatabank.com/?r=MTAwMw0KSjEzMjkzNC1DNDQ4LU0xMTExOTYtLWNlbGRmYWRtDQozNzE1NjQ0ODMwMzQ5MTQwMzUzMjExMTExOTY5NQ0KODMwMDAwMDAwMGIyMDINCmh0dHA6Ly9jZWxkZi5vcmcvZG93bmxvYWRzL1N1c3F1ZWhhbm5hX1NwcmluZ18yMDE0LnBkZg0KUERGMQ0KQkxBQ0tEQU5USEVNQU4xMDBAR01BSUwuQ09N" target="_blank">The Susquehanna</a></i>. See below for some of our featured articles.</p>
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Our Community Rights organizing is made possible by your support. Please make a contribution today! It is easy to give, by visiting our website at <a href="http://www.celdf.org/" target="_blank">www.celdf.org</a> and clicking on the “donate” button.</p>
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Thank you!</p>
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All of us at CELDF</p>
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<font size="4">Town Meeting: NH Communities Advance Community Rights</font></h2>
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<span style="font-size:12px">New Hampshire communities facing industrial wind turbines adopt CELDF-drafted Community Bills of Rights at Town Meeting, asserting their rights to local self-governance, and banning unsustainable energy projects. </span></p>
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<span style="color:#505963">Gas and Oil Industry Attacks Community Rights in Colorado</span></h2>
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In response to Lafayette, CO's, Community Bill of Rights banning commercial oil and gas extraction, the industry is now attacking communities' rights to ban harmful extractive practices. Communities are responding with a proposed CELDF-drafted Community Rights state constitutional amendment.</p>
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Highland Township, PA, Residents Assert Rights</h2>
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Despite a Community Bill of Rights in place to protect water in Highland Township by banning fracking wastewater injection wells, Seneca Resources moves to site a well within the Township, in violation of the Ordinance. Township Supervisors and residents partner with CELDF to assert their Community Rights.</p>
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