Resources

Learn about how the Nebraska Green Amendment will bring critical protections for Nebraska’s environment and communities with these key resources:

• The Nebraska Green Amendment ~ Key Points & Values
• The Nebraska Green Amendment ~ Helping Advance Environmental Protection, Environmental Justice and Protection for Our Communities
• The Nebraska Green Amendment ~ Frequently Asked Questions & The Answers

Here’s The Story, an Emmy nominated show that premiered in 2011 and is produced by acclaimed journalist Steve Rogers, is now featuring a two part show featuring the Green Amendment movement. The show joins Maya as she explores the history of the Green Amendment movement and meets with environmental, political and legal leaders key to the movements past, present and future. Among those interviewed is NJ Governor Phil Murphy, PA Senator Franklin Kury who originally conceived of the idea for PA, and the chief justice who wrote the iconic opinion that helped launch the movement.

You can watch the show, see Facebook live chats with some of the key players, and see the full interviews that were conducted as part of the show here: Here’s the Story: The Green Amendment.

Your donation today will help us do the work, provide the expertise, inspire supporters and take on the challengers so that every person and community in Delaware and nationwide can have a true RIGHT, that is enforceable, to a clean, safe & healthy environment.

• The Green Amendment, The People’s Fight For a Clean, Safe & Healthy Environment —The Book
• What is a Green Amendment Fact Sheet
• Demanding and Defending Your Rights to Clean Air, Clean Water, & a Healthy Environment Info Sheet
• Green Amendment Frequently Asked Questions & Their Answers
• A Nebraska Green Amendment – Paper.Proposal, Sheridan Macy
• How Green Amendments Protect Key Environmental Rights — Expert Analysis by Founder M.K. van Rossum for Law360  (published in Law360)
• Green Amendments Will Empower Environmental Protection (published in Bloomberg Law article)
• GREEN AMENDMENT Model Language, Criteria & Step-by-Step Guide
• How To Implement & Apply a Green Amendment
• Protections Offered with Trust Language in a Green Amendment
• Benefits of a Constitutional Provision Protecting Environmental Rights
• Green Amendments Are Good For Attracting & Supporting Quality Business, a handout
• Green Amendments, Properly Placed and Written, Are A Restraint On Governmental Authority – Article By Team of Attorneys that Successfully Argued PA Case
• General Community Green Amendment Information Sheet
• Misconceptions & Application of Green Amendments, by Todd Ommen, Professor at Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, printed in ABA magazine
• THE GREEN AMENDMENT: An Idea Whose Time It Has Always Been, by Gerald J. Williams, Esq.
• Constitutional Environmental Rights Worldwide, A Research Paper
• While many states pursue Green Amendments via the legislative path, there are some that have the opportunity to use Citizens Initiatives, that’s how Florida is doing it.  To learn if the Citizens Initiative path is an opportunity in your state check out this great resources compiled in 2023 by Wendi Lederman for Green Grassroots Election Protection Coalition: States With Citizen Initiatives 2023

• Green Amendment Roots Helping to Make EJ Enforceable
• Constitutional Green Amendments: Making Environmental Justice a Reality, (published in American Bar Association Natural Resources & Environment Journal)
• Green Amendments: Giving Constitutional Power to Environmental Justice, Fact Sheet
• Green Amendment Roots –  Making EJ Enforceable, a handout
• Environmental Law Institute (ELI) Dialogue: Green Amendments; Vehicles for Environmental Justice, Panel Discussion Fall 2021
• Using Green Amendments to Strengthen Environmental Justice
• An Open Letter: Racial Justice Demands Constitutional “Green Amendments” calling for environmental and racial justice, which offers a tangible pathway to change. Check out the moving video piece in which 24 diverse leaders and activists joined van Rossum in delivering the letter.

Green Amendments are a powerful tool for helping to address the climate crisis, including by advancing good quality clean energy projects. A special forum of experts was held to dive in on how and why. You can watch the forum and learn from the panel of experts here (scroll down past the agenda and speaker bios until you find the video), on the Green Amendment Action Platform.

Not already on the platform? You can sign up for the Action Platform here.

Other Helpful Resources:

• Green Amendments For Climate Protection: How It Works – An Overview
• Green Amendments For Climate Protection: Taking on the False Narratives of the Opposition
• Green Amendments – Clean Energy – Environmental Justice (op ed published on Earth 911)

• Click here, to learn how Green Amendments have secured critical environmental protections in the 3 states where they exist: Pennsylvania, Montana, New York

• Environmental Rights & Justice Talk caught on video
• A Discussion of Held v. Montana — and the intersection between climate justice and Green Amendments.
• The Impact of Pennsylvania Green Amendments on Decisionmaking in Pennsylvania
• Pennsylvania’s Environmental Rights Amendment in Practice
• More video content available on Youtube
• Watch & Listen: press, podcast, & media content