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The “Green Amendment” failed to make it out of House Judiciary Committee on Friday. The committee voted 9-3 in favor of tabling House Joint Resolution 2, which would have allowed voters to decide whether to amend the state’s Bill of Rights to include environmental rights. This essentially means the proposal is dead for the year. […]

The resolution would put language on the ballot in the next general election to alter the state’s constitution to define environmental rights.

Voters in November easily passed a constitutional amendment saying that New Yorkers have...

The 2022 Olympic Games are scheduled to open in Beijing later this week, but new research found unless world leaders make significant progress toward mitigating climate change, they could be the last Winter Games. The report showed in most parts of the world, including Colorado and the American West, winter-sports venues said the natural snowfalls they depend on to operate are no longer reliable. The Beijing Games will be the first ever produced with 100% artificial snow. ...

A bill to require big corporations to be transparent about their own carbon footprint needs a vote in the California Senate by the legislative deadline on Monday, or it will die. Senate Bill 260 would require U.S.-based corporations that do business in California and make more than $1 billion a year in revenue to disclose their full greenhouse-gas emissions to the state. Melissa Romero, legislative affairs manager at California Environmental Voters, said the data is necessary to fight global w...

Changes to the state constitution are rare and the bar is high to enact them, but that’s not stopping two lawmakers from proposing a new Green Amendment for Washington.

With the new legislative session fast approaching in Albany, we’re speaking with members of the Senate and Assembly about their expectations for 2022. It will be Governor Kathy Hochul’s first budget process, and it comes during an election year.

I am an environmental outdoor education teacher in Kent County, MD. My teaching focuses on the human effort to live compatibly with nature’s design so that the world remains sustainable,

November 2, 2021, New York State voters passed a ballot measure enshrining in the State Constitution the right to a healthful environment. The new green amendment or Environmental Rights Amendment ERA is similar to six other states' constitutional provisions

On November 4th, by a 2:1 majority, New York voters amended the State’s Constitution to provide a right to the environment for everyone in the State. The New York State Constitution’s...