Volume 37
Issue
1

Agency Statutory Authority and the Pennsylvania Environmental Rights Amendment

by John C. Dernbach & Robert B. McKinstry, Jr.
Deteriorating global environmental conditions, especially the accelerated warming of the atmosphere, have prompted a growing interest in constitutional environmental protection in the United States and around the world. Four states […]

More Than a Hill O’ Beans:  A Typology for Incorporating Plant-Based Protein Measures into Municipal Climate Action Plans

by Linda Breggin, Bruce Myers, Sarah Backer, and Taalin RaoShah
Urban areas are responsible for a large percentage of the country’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and are on the front lines of adapting to the effects of climate change. Rising […]

Anti-Democratic Rights of Nature

by Noah M. Sachs
The global Rights of Nature (RoN) movement, which seeks to confer enforceable rights on organisms and ecosystems, has become a political force, and governments are now codifying legal rights for […]

The River Divides, the River Unites: A Critique of the Relationship Between Human Rights and the Rights of Nature

by Zak Handler
The Rights of Nature movement has been steadily growing in recent years. Multiple countries have now granted nature legal rights. As it has grown, it has invited comparison with another […]