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Fundamental Rights to a Clean, Safe and Healthy Environment: The Case for Green AmendmentsSKU: ENV2300
Available In:
General Credits
1.5
Price$75
DescriptionThis 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. Lecturer BiosMelissa Martin, Esq.Melissa Martin, a Florida attorney currently living in Oregon, is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and served as a commissioned U.S. Marine Corps Officer, retiring as a Staff Judge Advocate in 2014. She earned her law degree from Barry University School of Law. Active in clean water advocacy and conservation, in 2016 Mel helped defeat a pro-fracking bill in Florida, and helped to lead a countywide coalition which successfully instituted a sales tax to support restoration projects for the Indian River Lagoon. She has also served as an Adjunct Law Professor, teaching Water Pollution Law and Environmental Ethics at Barry University. Maya van Rossum, Esq,Maya van Rossum is the Founder and leader of the national organization Green Amendments For The Generations, author of the award winning book titled The Green Amendment, and for thirty years I have served as the Delaware Riverkeeper and leader of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network. Since Spring 2002, van Rossum has served as an adjunct professor and director of the Environmental Law Clinic at Temple's Beasley School of Law which she founded.
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