{"id":3257,"date":"2020-03-18T02:29:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T02:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh-2020\/?p=3257"},"modified":"2020-09-21T01:00:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T01:00:36","slug":"could-the-ohio-river-have-rights-a-movement-emerges-testing-the-power-of-local-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/could-the-ohio-river-have-rights-a-movement-emerges-testing-the-power-of-local-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Could the Ohio River have rights? A movement emerges, testing the power of local control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a class=\"username\" title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenbiz.com\/users\/erin-west\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Erin West<\/a><time> Tuesday, March 17, 2020. GreenBiz.<\/time><\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine if the Ohio River and its tributaries had legal rights? While speculative, the idea isn&#8217;t necessarily far-fetched.<\/p>\n<p>February marks the one-year anniversary of residents in Toledo, Ohio, bestowing Lake Erie with its own bill of rights.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Ohio declared a state of emergency after about 110 people fell sick from an algae bloom and about half a million area residents were instructed not to drink tap water for three days. Unhappy with existing state and federal environmental protection, area activists got creative.<\/p>\n<p>Using an emerging legal strategy termed &#8220;rights of nature,&#8221; they developed a ballot measure to give residents the ability to sue on behalf of Lake Erie, even if they can&#8217;t show harm to humans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenbiz.com\/article\/could-ohio-river-have-rights-movement-emerges-testing-power-local-control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full Article Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CELDF article on Lake Erie Bill of Rights: <a href=\"https:\/\/celdf.org\/in-plain-sight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In Plain Sight<\/a>\u00a0 (photo credit from this article)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Erin West Tuesday, March 17, 2020. GreenBiz. Can you imagine if the Ohio River and its tributaries had legal<span class=\"text-cutoff\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":3258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal","category-pa_pgh_news","category-solutions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}