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Residents of states with Green Amendments have an enforceable right to a healthy environment—but does that include a stable climate?

At the end of April, the gallery Nunu Fine Art opened in New York City with works by the Cuban multi-media artist duo Ariamna Contino & Alex Hernández Dueñas about glacier retreat and sea level rise, the collection of climate data by researchers and its marginalization by political forces, and therefore the necessity for an environmental ethics driven by cultural effort.

As Montana awaits a judgment in a historic climate lawsuit, there’s a drive to place environmental provisions in state constitutions

The first US youth climate change trial came to a close on Tuesday, ending the latest round of courtroom proceedings that will influence how future challengers will use the legal system to push for emissions reductions.

Efforts are underway again to seek a Green Amendment in Delawares State Constitution.

"A landmark climate trial that will reverberate in states and litigation across the US is set to begin Monday, when more than a dozen young people face off with the state of Montana at Lewis and Clark County District Court."

The first-ever constitutional climate trial in the United States began Monday in a Montana courtroom after 16 residents, one as young as 5 years old, sued the state over claims it violated their constitutional right to a healthy environment.

A landmark climate trial that will reverberate in states and litigation across the US is set to begin Monday, when more than a dozen young people face off with the state of Montana at Lewis and Clark County District Court.

In November 2022, van Rossum published a second edition of her book "The Green Amendment" which is expanded to include consideration of environmental racism, the climate crisis, the human health

Just a few hundred people of Chinese heritage still live in Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown. Many have been pushed out to cheaper and safer areas.