How Green Amendments Can Empower Environmental Protection w/ environmentalist Maya van Rossum (G&R 198)

As the climate crisis and toxic pollution worsen, environmentalists are using new strategies to challenge the power of the fossil fuel, petro-chemical and other polluting industries. The "Green Amendments" movement would put environmental protection in state and federal, constitutions and make it an unquestionable right. It already exists in three states (Montana, Pennsylvania and New York) and they are working to add it to more state constitutions.  In our latest, we talk with Green Amendments founder and Delaware Riverkeeper Maya van Rossum (@MayaKvanRossum) about Green Amendments.  Bio// Maya K. van Rossum is the founder of Green Amendments For The Generations, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring passage of Green Amendments in every state constitution across our nation, and also at the federal level when the time is right.  She is an environmental attorney, community organizer, and the Delaware Riverkeeper, leading the regional advocacy organization, the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, for over 30 years. . She is author of "The Green Amendment: The People's Fight for a Clean, Safe, and Healthy Environment."   -------------------------- Outro//  "Be the Rain" by Jean-Luc Le Tenia Links// Green Amendments for the Generations (https://forthegenerations.org/) Green Amendments Will Empower Environmental Protection (https://bit.ly/3Ht9m3B) Delaware Riverkeeper Network (https://www.delawareriverkeeper.org/) Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast https://greenandredpodcast.org/ Support the Green and Red Podcast// Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR **Our friends with Certain Days now have their 2023 calendar available and we bought ten copies.  With a $25 (or more) donation to Green and Red, we'll mail you one!  Just contact us at [email protected]  This is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969).  “Green and Red  Blues" by Moody.  Editing by Scott.