Green Amendments
Green Amendments – Taking Our Power Back to Protect People & Earth
While we have many rights in the U.S., environmental rights is not among them. It’s time to empower communities to secure their environmental rights: to turn from a system of laws that accommodates pollution, to a system that prevents degradation through the passage of constitutional Green Amendments. Learn how Green Amendments – in place in 3 states with 20+ more on the way – are transforming environmental protection, environmental justice and helping to address the climate crisis. Learn what a Green Amendment is, what it does, how it works, what is happening in your state, and how you can be a leader in securing meaningful constitutional environmental rights for your community.
WEBINAR DATE: Monday, September 29, 2025
Time: 7:30 pm Eastern (6:30 Central, 5:30 Mountain, 4:30 Pacific)
PRESENTER: Maya K van Rossum
SPEAKER BIO
Maya van Rossum is the Founder of Green Amendments For the Generations, a grassroots non-profit inspiring the national movement to secure constitutional recognition and protection of environmental rights in every state and ultimately at the federal level. Maya, a licensed attorney, is the author of numerous publications, including her book The Green Amendment, The People’s Fight For a Clean, Safe & Healthy Environment, now in its second edition, in which she coined and defined the term “Green Amendment”. Maya is also the Delaware Riverkeeper, leading the 4 state, watershed-based advocacy organization, the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, for 30 years. She co-hosts Green Genes, an environmental podcast with her daughter. Since launching her Green Amendment movement, New York passed an amendment in 2021, proposals are advancing in 20 additional states, with half a dozen more on the way, and there is increasing use (including with Maya’s assistance) of the Green Amendments that now exist in Pennsylvania, New York and Montana.