Shouldn’t a clean and healthy environment be a guaranteed right, as essential as the right to free speech or voting?

That’s the idea behind the Green Amendment — a proposed addition to the New Jersey Constitution that would guarantee every resident the right to pure water, clean air, a stable climate and a healthy environment.

The state constitution is a powerful document that belongs to the people of New Jersey. Just as the U.S. Constitution sets the supreme law of the land at the federal level, New Jersey’s constitution is the highest legal authority within the state. It’s like the rulebook for all other laws and policies in New Jersey.

New Jersey was the first state in the modern era to propose a Green Amendment, back in 2014, but it has yet to become law. Despite repeated hearings a

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