This CLE course introduces an emerging intersection of environmental and constitutional law that proves promising in the field of public interest environmental law and advocacy: fundamental environmental rights. Green Amendments, as they’ve been termed, are self-executing provisions added to the bill of rights section of a constitution that recognize and protect the rights of all people, including future generations, to clean water, clean air, a stable climate and a healthy environment.

Learn how strict scrutiny of government actions on environmental matters has developed in three states with Green Amendments (Pennsylvania, Montana and New York), and how such fundamental rights can be enacted in other states to address and prevent environmental destruction.