{"id":1015126,"date":"2023-03-06T06:28:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T06:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=275854"},"modified":"2023-03-06T06:28:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T06:28:21","slug":"the-constitutional-right-to-a-healthful-environment-in-new-york-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/06\/the-constitutional-right-to-a-healthful-environment-in-new-york-state\/","title":{"rendered":"The Constitutional Right to a Healthful Environment (in New York State)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just over a year ago, the New York State Constitution was amended to include a right to a healthy environment. Since January 2022, Article 1, Section 19, the so-called Green Amendment to the New York State Constitution, states that \u201ceach person shall have a right to clean air and water, and a healthful environment.\u201d (Although  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/06\/the-constitutional-right-to-a-healthful-environment-in-new-york-state\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/06\/the-constitutional-right-to-a-healthful-environment-in-new-york-state\/\">The Constitutional Right to a Healthful Environment (in New York State)<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/06\/the-constitutional-right-to-a-healthful-environment-in-new-york-state\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over a year ago, the New York State Constitution was amended to include a right to a healthy environment. Since January 2022, Article 1, Section 19, the so-called Green Amendment to the New York State Constitution, states that \u201ceach person shall h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015132,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015126\/revisions\/1015132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}