Clean Air and Pure Water

Posted on March 31, 2021 by

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The man who wrote those words into Pennsylvania’s Environmental Rights Amendment 50 years ago, has authored a new book, to be released on Earth Day.

Frank Kury's new book, "The Constitutional Question to Save the Planet."

We just learned of this new book in the PA Environment Digest Blog which included this:

“Climate change is a grave and imminent threat to life in the United States and the world. There are numerous proposals to stop it—from President Biden, Bill Gates, and others. But these proposals have a glaring omission—they fail to provide constitutional protection to the right to a healthy environment as a fundamental human right,” said Kury. “My book fills this omission by providing the needed constitutional provision. After all, what good are fundamental rights like freedom of speech and religion if people are suffering from climate change? “My book calls for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that gives permanence to the right to a healthy environment and places on government the obligation to secure it,” Kury added. “Equally important, this amendment would give people the right to seek judicial enforcement of that right if and when the government fails to protect it.”
It’s a crying shame that Pennsylvania governors, judges and legislators have ignored the full scope and intent of the Environmental Rights Amendment, as it relates to shale gas drilling and fracking, but those words still look great on paper:

“CLEAN AIR and PURE WATER.”
It doesn’t just say “clean water” it says “pure water.”

Bob

Category: air quality, environment, Pennsylvania