The PA Green Amendment - Opportunity & Obligation - A Guide

Download our handbook, The Pennsylvania Green Amendment – Both Opportunity & Obligation, A Guide For Municipalities, to help your community and municipal officials understand how and why the Pennsylvania Green Amendment requires them to do better when it comes to environmental protection.
This new guide is written for Pennsylvania municipal officials and advocates alike, to guide readers in their understanding of the opportunities and obligations the PA Green Amendment creates for municipal government.
PA Green Amendment in Local Ordinances to Protect & Empower
Including the Pennsylvania Green Amendment in Municipal Ordinances to Protect & Empower.
Download our new guide to learn how to incorporate the Pennsylvania Green Amendment into municipal ordinances in a way that empowers and ensures greater protections (does not undermine them) and gives good government officials and the public the constitutional strength to ensure they are empowered and obligated to protect environmental rights.
Data Centers are among the many projects, threats & challenges that require ordinance attention.
An Emmy Nominated Show
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.
Pennsylvania Data Centers - How To Exercise Your PA Green Amendment Rights
When it comes to the rapid proliferation of hyperscale data centers, there are a lack of laws, regulations, ordinances and/or zoning protections—at the local, state and federal levels—that provide the protections communities need. That’s where the Pennsylvania Green Amendment comes in. Every time a data center needs a special approval, change, or exception to zoning, it is an opportunity to raise your concerns and your constitutionally protected environmental rights. This guide walks through how you can do just that, and provides some advocacy tools to craft your data center comments.
Get the Guide to ensure you are effectively putting your Green Amendment rights into action for preventing and addressing the threats and harms of data centers.
People’s Action Guide
Have you ever wished you had a toolkit to help guide your Green Amendment advocacy? Look no further than our People’s Action Guide!
These two guides—one for states with Green Amendments and one for states working to secure them—were crafted especially for passionate people like you. We break down Green Amendments at every step of the way, from the concept of constitutional environmental rights, to the victories that have affirmed their legal strength, to education and outreach tips to build your own Green Amendment coalition. Download your copy or request a printed copy here.
Factsheets and Materials
Understanding and Implementing a Green Amendment in Pennsylvania
- PA Green Amendment FAQs
- Story of the ACT13 Decision
- PA Supreme Court Protects Generations
- Pennsylvania Green Amendment Printable Petition
- Press Release – The Spirit of the Lorax Floods Capitol Building as Children Tell Governor & Legislators to Uphold PA’s Green Amendment
- State Impact: Wolf Cites Environmental Rights in Vetoing Plastic Bill
- Robinson Township, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, et al v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania., Dec. 19, 2013 – Plurality Opinion
- Robinson Township, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, et al v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania., Dec. 19, 2013 – Concurring Opinion
- Robinson Township, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, et al v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania., Sept 28, 2016
- PEDF v. Commonwealth, June 20, 2017 — Opinion
- PEDF v. Commonwealth, June 20, 2017 — Concurrence
- Guide of Decisions Using PA Green Amendment Since Dec 2013 Revival
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