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If we were writing our Constitution for the first time today, wise leaders would surely insert protections for our environment. Amendments are hard, of course--there's a lot of corporate power to overcome--but given the stakes, this is surely an idea worth everyone taking very seriously! --Bill McKibben, author of RADIO FREE VERMONT Read this book and you will be infuriated and inspired. Infuriated because the book drags you through the environmental muck of fracking, pipelines, PFOA . . . But you will be inspired by the notion, transformed into a call for a constitutional amendment, that we, the people, have always had more power than we thought. --A. R. Ingraffea, PhD, PE, Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering Emeritus and Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow at Cornell University The Green Amendment asks us to imagine a world in which the right to pure water and healthy air exist on par with due process and free speech--and then shows us how to make it so. --Sandra Steingraber, PhD, author of LIVING DOWNSTREAM and RAISING ELIJAH, recipient of the Rachel Carson Leadership Award, and co-founder of New Yorkers Against Fracking

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Maya K. van Rossum is a veteran environmentalist who since 1996 has served as the Delaware Riverkeeper, championing the rights of over 17 million people to a free-flowing, clean, and healthy Delaware River and its tributary streams. In 2013, she was one of the original petitioners in the landmark Robinson Township v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania case. Since 2002, she has served as an adjunct professor and director of the Environmental Law Clinic at Temple's Beasley School of Law, which she founded. van Rossum lives in Delaware County Pennsylvania with her family.

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