EDITORIAL: New Yorkers deserve right to a healthful environment

August 10, 2024 by Editor in News, NY

EDITORIAL: New Yorkers deserve right to a healthful environment

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A powerful wake up call. Recommended read>>>"The Loper decision was a fundamental power grab by the US Supreme Court, seizing for itself the power to determine how to create, implement, and enforce rules carrying out legislative directives on everything from drug safety to financial regulation and environmental protections. The proper response is to seize that power back by proactively enshrining our environmental rights in our constitutions themselves. Green Amendments represent the ultimate expression of democratic decision-making, telling the courts how we expect laws, rules, regulations and decisions to be made, and restoring the courts to their proper place as arbiter of the law, not Decision-maker Supreme."Throughout our history, the states have often led the way for the recognition, protection, and restoration of our fundamental rights. It was the states that first granted women the right to vote and initiated the end of poll taxes that stripped people of color and others of their right to vote. So too will it be with our environmental rights. Seeking and securing constitutional Green Amendments state by state – and ultimately at the federal level – is our best and strongest response to this moment of federal environmental and democratic unraveling. "- Maya van Rossum, GAFTG Founderearth.org/its-time-for-a-constitutional-reckoning-to-defend-our-environment/#GreenAmendment #environmentalrights #humanrights #climatechange #cleanair #cleanwater #healthyenvironment #SCOTUS #Chevron #CleanWaterAct #cleanairact #NEPA #SupremeCourt #ConstitutionalRights #Constitution ... See MoreSee Less

Environmental Justice: The Case for Green Amendments

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The passage of Green Amendments will put the strongest legal tool we have in our democracy to work for the protection of our environment.

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