The Rights of Nature Movement Goes On Trial

Last Friday, a federal judge in western Pennsylvania issued sanctions on two lawyers from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, a law firm that for 15 years has been helping municipalities fight industrial projects by encouraging ordinances that recognize the right to local self-government and the rights of nature, including "rivers, streams, and aquifers," to "exist, flourish, and

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