Two Suits Already Filed in Response to Passage of the Denton Fracking Ban
A state agency and an oil and gas industry association each filed lawsuits seeking declaratory relief and an injunction...
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund reports:
ATHENS, OH: With 78% of the vote, Athens, OH,
residents overwhelmingly adopted a CELDF-drafted Community Bill of
Rights banning fracking and related activities, securing their rights to
a healthy environment, to local self-governance, and the rights of
nature. The new law also eliminates the authority of oil and gas
corporations to wield their corporate “rights” against the community.
Learn more here.
MENDOCINO COUNTY, CA: Over 67% of Mendocino County, CA,
citizens voted to adopt a similar CELDF-drafted measure – the Mendocino
County Community Bill of Rights Fracking and Water Use Initiative – in
partnership with Global Exchange. Click here to read more.
CELDF ELECTIONS UPDATE BLOG: Community Rights took a big step forward in yesterday’s elections, with a record number of CELDF-drafted measures on the ballot in Ohio, Oregon, and California. What happened, where, and what’s next? Read more here.
FRA’s Szabo headed back to Chicago
11/05/14 by William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief Railway Age
Joe Szabo Photo courtesy Cathy Morrison, Missouri
Department of Transportation
Federal Railroad Administrator Joseph C. Szabo will be
stepping down from the post he has held since April 2009 and,
effective Jan. 1, 2015, will be on staff at the Chicago
Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP)—effectively returning to
his Chicagoland roots.....
....In recent months it has been speculated that Szabo could be
departing the FRA. Railway Age first broke the news
that Szabo’s job was in jeopardy following his attempt to
mandate two-person crews (see Frank Wilner’s April 11, 2014
blog, “Data drought haunts FRA crew-size mandate.”
See also “Is FRA’s Szabo headed to the STB?” Sept.
29, 2014).
Joe Szabo is the 12th Federal Railroad Administrator (FRA) and was the first to come from the ranks of rail workers. He is a fifth-generation railroader who for many years worked commuter and freight trains as a conductor in the greater Chicago area..... read more here
Joe Szabo is the 12th Federal Railroad Administrator (FRA) and was the first to come from the ranks of rail workers. He is a fifth-generation railroader who for many years worked commuter and freight trains as a conductor in the greater Chicago area..... read more here
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