In the NY times article “Corporations Have Rights. Why Shouldn’t Rivers?” we learn about a recently filed lawsuit in which a judge is being asked to recognize the Colorado River as a person. This lawsuit is testing an important legal theory — giving rights to nature — similar to Ecuador’s model. In 2008, Ecuador became the first country to
read moreFor Immediate Release September 28, 2016 Contacts: Maya van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper, 215 369 1188 ext 102 (rings to cell & office) Jordan Yeager, Attorney for Plaintiffs, 215 254 1166 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: In an 88 page opinion written by Supreme Court Justice Todd and joined by Justices Donohue, Dougherty and Wecht, and issued today,
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Golden introduced Senate Joint Resolution 5 because he says his generation has over the past decades “hammered the environment really hard.” He adds, “In almost every aspect of environmental health, we are handing the next generation ecosystems that are more degraded and less sustainable than when we got them.”
To reverse this trend, he says, “We’ve got to give our rights to a clean environment parity with other rights. Personal property rights, corporate rights, some of our civil rights, those tend not to be eroded when they’re well protected,” he says.
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On Feb. 10, the U.S. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals declined to re-hear Juliana vs. U.S., a case that argues that the federal government is complicit in climate change through its policies and ...Don't miss out on this opportunity to partake in a revolution for the generations. We are flipping state constitutions across the nation to ensure everyone has the inalienable, indefeasible, inherent right to clean air and pure water!
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While all people should have a right to clean water, clean air, a stable climate and a healthy environment, here in the United States that is not your right. While our State and Federal constitutions include rights to free speech and religion, due process and gun rights, they do not include...Do we really need to wait every single time for a crisis to occur for the government to kinda, maybe, do something about the system that led up to it? Why is it so hard to focus on prevention?
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