PLEASE SIGN and SHARE our online petition!!
  
 

As part of our campaign to convince Columbus City Council that our Columbus Community Bill of Rights charter amendment should be on the November ballot,
we have created an online petition. 
 
Please sign, but even more important, SHARE, SHARE, SHARE with everyone you can.  We want thousands of signatures, especially from residents of the City of Columbus itself.

Please click HERE to read and sign the petition, and we are asking that you please copy and SHARE the link below on your Facebook, Twitter, and other social media accounts, and email the link to friends:


Our local electeds must realize that public opinion is very much supportive of having a local law that spells out our rights as residents of the city to protect our life-giving resources:  our public water, our soil, and the air that we breathe from contamination brought about by oil and gas production wastes.
 
 
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Ohio communities plan next step after
federal lawsuit dismissed
 
 
 
Plaintiffs from six Ohio communities, including Columbus, met online with CELDF attorneys last week to plan our next step after the federal lawsuit was recently dismissed.  We expect to plan to appeal the decision.
 
Review:
With the support of the Ohio Community Rights Network and Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, the federal lawsuit was filed after the Ohio Supreme Court upheld the August 2018 BOE decision to disallow CCBOR's initiative to be put on the November 2018 Columbus ballot.  The judicial rulings were all based on the unconstitutional law, HB 463, that was put into effect in 2016.  This controversial Ohio law puts the decision of whether a citizen initiative's content is "sufficient" to be placed on the ballot, from the judicial branch into the hands of the boards of election.  It over-extended the role of BOE's well beyond their job, which is to ensure that administrative structure of the language is sufficient, as well as the required number of valid signatures exist.
 
Stay tuned!!
     
 
The "Brine Bill" is Still Being Alive
 
A bottle of highly-radioactive AquaSalina, that would be sold in hardware stores in Ohio
as a deregulated commodity for de-ice control on sidewalks and private home surfaces.
 
HR 545, known as the "Brine Bill", is still in circulation in the Ohio statehouse.  Proponent testimony was scheduled for the week of May 24th, but was postponed.  That was good news, but we expect that it may be short-lived!  We all need to contact our state legislators and let them know how egregious this law would be, if enacted.  You can read more HERE, on our website.
 
We need as many Ohio residents as possible to contact members of the Ohio House Energy and Natural Resources committee, and let them know that we don't want our environment, especially in our city, contaminated with heavy metals, and radium that will never go away in our lifetimes or the lifetimes of our great-great-great grandchildren! 
 
If you would like to find out how to get in touch with committee members,
contact Greg Pace at gpace67@gmail.com.  
 
 
Lake Erie: Dead or Alive
 
 
 
A young girl plays by algae-poisoned water at Maumee Bay State Park in spring 2019.
Photo credit Christy Frank Photography.
 
LAKE ERIE:  DEAD OR ALIVE
[Excerpt:]
Organizers with Toledoans for Safe Water are regrouping to plan their next moves.  In the meantime, communities all over the United States, inspired by the LEBOR, are undeterred by its loss in the courts and pursuing similar laws using the "Rights of Nature" model.  Eleven counties in Florida are currently working to enact such laws in response to ongoing "red tide" pollution of their waterways, while a community in Washington is working to establish legal rights ofr the Salish Sea.  More groups are currently forming in Minnesota, Mississippi, and Canada.
 
Click HERE or on the image above or to read the full article in the Toledo City Paper.
 
Toledo Invests $1 billion in Water Treatment Plant
 
THIS IS THE COST SCENARIO WE WANT TO AVOID IN CENTRAL OHIO, but if the oil and gas production waste stream contaminates our public drinking water source!!
 
[Excerpt:]
In 2011 the city issued a three-day drinking water ban covering the Toledo service area, affecting over 100,000 service taps and 500,000 residents.

In the five years since, $132.7 million has been invested into improving the Collins Park Water Treatment plant in East Toledo.  In addition, millions more have been provided to various agencies and universities for research.

Click HERE to read the full article in The Press.
 
 
GrassRootOhio - Every Friday
 
 
 
Listen to Carolyn Harding interview guests about Ohio issues that affect all of us in the state.
 
The show appears on Columbus local radio station WGRN 94.1FM, every Friday at 5:00pm.
    
     
 
Other Great Resources Online
 
 
LC Concerned Citizens newsletter. To subscribe, click HERE and follow the instructions on their website, located in the right-hand sidebar to email them and ask to subscribe.
 
 
 
Click on the image above to watch our video 'We're All Downstream'
 
 
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Toxic Radioactive Waste Doesn’t Belong Here
Protect our Home, our Families, our Rights!
 
 
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