The Green Amendment for New Mexico - Revision history

Rjcord: /* What is a Green Amendment? */

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What is a Green Amendment?

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What is a Green Amendment?

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What's Currently Proposed

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What's Currently Proposed

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Rjcord at 19:13, 24 January 2021

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Rjcord: /* Doesn't Article XX Section 21 Cover Our Needs? */

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Doesn't Article XX Section 21 Cover Our Needs?

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What's Proposed

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What's Proposed

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 SECTION 1. It is proposed to amend Article 2 of the constitution of New Mexico by adding a new section to read:
-:"A. The people of the state shall be entitled to clean and healthy air, water, soil and environment; a stable climate; and self-sustaining ecosystems, for the benefit of public health, safety and general welfare. The state,
+:"A. The people of the state shall be entitled to clean and healthy air, water, soil and environment; a stable climate; and self-sustaining ecosystems, for the benefit of public health, safety and general welfare. The state, including its political subdivisions, shall serve as trustee of these resources and shall conserve, protect and maintain them for the benefit of all the people, including present and future generations.
 :B. The provisions of this section are selfexecuting. Monetary damages shall not be awarded for a violation of this section."

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 * [https://www.ncel.net/green-amendment National Caucus of Environmental Legislators]
-'''Resolution for Proposing New Mexico Green Amendment Language''' - as of Oct 1, 2020
+'''Resolution for Proposing New Mexico Green Amendment Language''' - as of Feb 7, 2022
 <blockquote style="padding:10px 20px;border:1px solid #cedff2; width:50%;background-color:#f5faff">
-SECTION 1. It is proposed to amend Article 2 of the
+SECTION 1. It is proposed to amend Article 2 of the constitution of New Mexico by adding a new section to read:
-constitution of New Mexico by adding a new section to
+:"A. The people of the state shall be entitled to clean and healthy air, water, soil and environment; a stable climate; and self-sustaining ecosystems, for the benefit of public health, safety and general welfare. The state,
-read:
+including its political subdivisions, shall serve as trustee of these resources and shall conserve, protect and maintain them for the benefit of all the people, including present and future generations.
-A. The people of the state, including future generations,
+:B. The provisions of this section are selfexecuting. Monetary damages shall not be awarded for a violation of this section."
-B. The state, including each branch, agency, and political
+SECTION 2. It is proposed to amend Article 20 of the constitution of New Mexico by repealing Section 21.
 </blockquote>

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 [[Category:Legislation]][[Category:Solutions]]
 == What's Currently Proposed ==
-Advanced by The Green Amendment for the Generations and many other environmental groups, the bill coming before the 2022 NM legislature ([https://nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?Chamber=S&LegType=JR&LegNo=3&year=21 SJR 3] Environmental Rights, CA) would ask voters to approve a State Constitutional Amendment giving all New Mexicans a constitutional right to clean air, clean water, and unpolluted land. These rights would become inherent, inalienable, and indefeasible, and become among those rights reserved to all the people and on a par with other protected inalienable rights in the NM Constitution Bill of Rights. If approved by the legislators and then the voters, the Green Amendment would empower residents to be able to take legal action if they felt that their rights to a clean environment were being violated by either industry or government agency.
+Advanced by The Green Amendment for the Generations and many other environmental groups, the bill coming before the 2022 NM legislature ([https://nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?Chamber=H&LegType=JR&LegNo=2&year=22 HJR 2] Environmental Rights, CA) would ask voters to approve a State Constitutional Amendment giving all New Mexicans a constitutional right to clean air, clean water, and unpolluted land. These rights would become inherent, inalienable, and indefeasible, and become among those rights reserved to all the people and on a par with other protected inalienable rights in the NM Constitution Bill of Rights. If approved by the legislators and then the voters, the Green Amendment would empower residents to be able to take legal action if they felt that their rights to a clean environment were being violated by either industry or government agency.
 == Why Have a Green Amendment? ==

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 [[Category:Legislation]][[Category:Solutions]]
 == What's Currently Proposed ==
-Advanced by The Green Amendment for the Generations and many other environmental groups, the bill coming before the 2021 NM legislature ([https://nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?Chamber=S&LegType=JR&LegNo=3&year=21 SJR 3] Environmental Rights, CA) would ask voters to approve a State Constitutional Amendment giving all New Mexicans a constitutional right to clean air, clean water, and unpolluted land. These rights would become inherent, inalienable, and indefeasible, and become among those rights reserved to all the people and on a par with other protected inalienable rights in the NM Constitution Bill of Rights. If approved by the legislators and then the voters, the Green Amendment would empower residents to be able to take legal action if they felt that their rights to a clean environment were being violated by either industry or government agency.
+Advanced by The Green Amendment for the Generations and many other environmental groups, the bill coming before the 2022 NM legislature ([https://nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?Chamber=S&LegType=JR&LegNo=3&year=21 SJR 3] Environmental Rights, CA) would ask voters to approve a State Constitutional Amendment giving all New Mexicans a constitutional right to clean air, clean water, and unpolluted land. These rights would become inherent, inalienable, and indefeasible, and become among those rights reserved to all the people and on a par with other protected inalienable rights in the NM Constitution Bill of Rights. If approved by the legislators and then the voters, the Green Amendment would empower residents to be able to take legal action if they felt that their rights to a clean environment were being violated by either industry or government agency.
 == Why Have a Green Amendment? ==

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	== What's Currently Proposed ==		== What's Currently Proposed ==
	Advanced by The Green Amendment for the Generations and many other environmental groups, the bill coming before the 2021 NM legislature ([https://nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?Chamber=S&LegType=JR&LegNo=3&year=21 SJR 3] Environmental Rights, CA) would ask voters to approve a State Constitutional Amendment giving all New Mexicans a constitutional right to clean air, clean water, and unpolluted land. These rights would become inherent, inalienable, and indefeasible, and become among those rights reserved to all the people and on a par with other protected inalienable rights in the NM Constitution Bill of Rights. If approved by the legislators and then the voters, the Green Amendment would empower residents to be able to take legal action if they felt that their rights to a clean environment were being violated by either industry or government agency.		Advanced by The Green Amendment for the Generations and many other environmental groups, the bill coming before the 2021 NM legislature ([https://nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?Chamber=S&LegType=JR&LegNo=3&year=21 SJR 3] Environmental Rights, CA) would ask voters to approve a State Constitutional Amendment giving all New Mexicans a constitutional right to clean air, clean water, and unpolluted land. These rights would become inherent, inalienable, and indefeasible, and become among those rights reserved to all the people and on a par with other protected inalienable rights in the NM Constitution Bill of Rights. If approved by the legislators and then the voters, the Green Amendment would empower residents to be able to take legal action if they felt that their rights to a clean environment were being violated by either industry or government agency.

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 No. Article XX Section 21 cannot be used to infringe on environmental rights. Currently Art XX, Section 21 recognizes that “protection of the state’s beautiful and healthful environment is … of fundamental importance to the public interest, health, safety and the general welfare.” However, it does not provide self-executing, constitutional Bill of Rights protection of the environment for all people.
-Instead, it recognizes the duty of legislators to legislate, and protects government action even when it devastatingly degrades our water, air, climate and environment. The repeal of this section include in the Green Amendment also recognizes that the existing Section 21 language has not fulfilled the intended goal of environmental protection and so is better replaced with the clear, concise, compelling and enforceable language of a new proposed Article II Section 25.1.
+Instead, it recognizes the duty of legislators to legislate, and protects government action even when it devastatingly degrades our water, air, climate and environment. The repeal of this section included in the Green Amendment also recognizes that the existing Section 21 language has not fulfilled the intended goal of environmental protection and so is better replaced with the clear, concise, compelling and enforceable language of a new proposed Article II Section 25.1.
 == What is a Green Amendment? ==

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 == What's Proposed ==
-It is proposed by many representative supporters that the NM Constitution's Bill of Rights be amended to provide environmental protection to all citizens of NM. The New Mexico legislature has to vote on a bill that would include a vote for the Constitutional Amendments as a ballot initiative. Once the voters make their wish known the amendment can be included in the Constitution.
+It is proposed by many representative supporters that the NM Constitution's Bill of Rights be amended to provide environmental protections to all citizens of NM as a right. The New Mexico legislature has to vote on a bill to put the question before the voters in an election. If the voters choose for the amendment it will be included in our Constitution.
 == Why Have a Green Amendment? ==

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		+	== What's Proposed ==
		+	It is proposed by many representative supporters that the NM Constitution's Bill of Rights be amended to provide environmental protection to all citizens of NM. The New Mexico legislature has to vote on a bill that would include a vote for the Constitutional Amendments as a ballot initiative. Once the voters make their wish known the amendment can be included in the Constitution.
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	== Why Have a Green Amendment? ==		== Why Have a Green Amendment? ==
	Green Amendments emphasize environmental justice for impacted communities. It has been adopted in Pennsylvania, which had a huge coal mining industry, and whose lower income urban areas were heavily impacted by industries. A Green Amendment has also been adopted in Montana.		Green Amendments emphasize environmental justice for impacted communities. It has been adopted in Pennsylvania, which had a huge coal mining industry, and whose lower income urban areas were heavily impacted by industries. A Green Amendment has also been adopted in Montana.