Ben Price is the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund s (CELDF) National Organizing Director, with fifteen years of experience organizing communities and coordinating organizers across the country to challenge state and federal legalization of corporate assaults against people and their environments. Ben worked closely with Tamaqua Borough, Pennsylvania, the first community on earth to recognize legal rights for ecosystems, and with the City Council of Pittsburgh, PA to adopt a community bill of rights banning fracking, directly challenging state preemption of local control over oil and gas corporations. Prior to teaming up with CELDF, Ben worked in the corporate world while also serving as President of the Pennsylvania Consumer Action Network (PCAN).