Community Environmental Defense Council, Inc.
Legal Services - Ithaca, New York, United States
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Community Environmental Defense Council, Inc. (CEDC) is an innovative and effective public interest law firm that has been leading and winning the war to keep fracking out of New York. We fight to protect upstate New York as a watershed, foodshed, and home for sustainable economies powered by renewable energy. We achieve these goals through creative and hard-hitting legal advocacy, grassroots engagement and public education. When everyone said it was hopeless to fight the most powerful industry on the planet, we refused to listen. We thought differently. We argued that banning drilling was not the same as regulating the industry, and that local municipalities, under the principle of Home Rule granted in the New York State Constitution, do have a right to ban gas drilling as an undesirable land use. For the past three years, we have crisscrossed the State – meeting at kitchen tables, in church basements, and town halls – educating local residents and town boards that they can enact laws to keep gas drilling out, and then we draft those laws at no charge. And in every lawsuit challenging local authority to prohibit gas drilling, State Supreme Court judges have unequivocally upheld CEDC's thesis.
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