Colleagues- I write to share news about a successful community-led effort in Pennsylvania to push back against construction of an injection well designed as a fracking water waste disposal site, highlighting the importance of using home rule charters to protect the local environment. You can read the article here<https://www.indianagazette.com/news/court-sides-with-grant-township-on-injection-well/article_4d07e3ac-5fc0-11ea-b34b-37a913e59b86.html>. In a related development, a Florida House Bill (HB 1343<https://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Bills/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=69649&SessionId=89>) on environmental resource management includes a provision that would ban rights of nature laws<https://thecapitolist.com/bobby-payne-highlights-the-importance-of-improving-floridas-water-quality/> at the municipal level.
Lots of action on environmental rights at the subnational level here in the US. Best, Josh (with Chris Jeffords) ---------------------------------- Joshua C. Gellers, PhD Associate Professor Dept. of Political Science and Public Administration University of North Florida 1 UNF Drive Jacksonville, FL 32224 (e): josh.gell...@unf.edu<mailto:josh.gell...@unf.edu> (t): @JoshGellers (w): www.joshgellers.com<http://www.joshgellers.com/> Book: The Global Emergence of Constitutional Environmental Rights<https://www.routledge.com/The-Global-Emergence-of-Constitutional-Environmental-Rights/Gellers/p/book/9781138696495> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/D35525E9-064D-47B5-A26A-DCF28D552F7B%40unf.edu.
