This is part of a trilogy focusing on natural rights’ activism at the community level
- Part One: Youth vs. Gvt.: How the Youth are Leading The Way
- Part Two : How communities can create change at the municipal level in the face of a system that prevents it
- Part Three: The Green Amendment: Securing Our Right to a Healthy Environment
The Green Amendment: Securing Our Right to a Healthy Environment
Maya K. van Rossum, as the Delaware River Keeper, has been championing the rights of over 17 million people to a free-flowing, clean, and healthy Delaware River and its tributary streams. When fracking threatened to destroy land and drinking water, Maya van Rossum and other petitioners successfully argued that people have rights to clean water and clean habitation in their homes and neighborhoods. The landmark Robinson Township vs Commonwealth of Pennsylvania case led to a watershed victory that strengthened the state’s Environmental Rights Amendment, protecting communities from ruthless frackers.
The Green Amendment movement affirms a clean and healthy environment as a constitutional right. For the generation, they are dedicated to empowering every American community to mobilize to secure passage of Green Amendments (environmental rights amendments) in the Bill of Rights section of every state and the federal constitution and to ensure their strong and meaningful implementation.
Since 2002, Maya has served as an adjunct professor and director of the Environmental Law Clinic at Temple Beasley School of Law, which she founded. The Green Amendment, Securing Our Rights to a Healthy Environment, was published by Disruption Books in 2017.
