The Green Amendment Moving Forward

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Join with leaders & activists to  get the latest updates and learn about opportunities to engage on the New Mexico Green Amendment. 

Presenters will include

  • Senator Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
  • Representative Joanne Ferrary
  • Senator Shannon Pinto
  • Senator Harold Pope 
  • Representative Tara Lujan
  • Representative Patricia Roybal Caballero
  • Nena Benevidez, Creciendo Nuevo Mexico
  • Luis Guerrero, Sierra Club
  • Oriana Sandoval, Center for Civic Policy
  • Maya van Rossum, Green Amendments For The Generations 

To join the webinar sign up here

Internship Opportunity

If you are interested in a part-time paid internship opportunity to actively support the New Mexico Green Amendment, applications are being invited now.  Learn more 

Reminder – if you are the leader of the organization that has not yet signed up in support of, and to be a part of, the 2022/2023 effort to secure Green Amendment support of New Mexico’s environmental rights, you can do so at this link.  Signing in support lists you on the website, provides an opportunity for your logo to be on informational materials, and ensures your leadership role in advancing this powerful protection for New Mexico’s people and environments.  Even if you signed in support in the past, we ask that you please affirmatively reaffirm your support now as we won’t presume that past support means present support.

 

 

 

Legislative Briefing (Jan. 25, 2022): The Green Amendment (HJR2 and SJR2)

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Our legislative briefing on Jan. 25, 2022, included four important issues we’re following in the 2022 NM State Legislature.

In this video, Maya K. von Rossum, founder of the Green Amendments for the Generations, spoke of HJR2 and SJR2, The Green Amendment.  The initiative proposes to amend the Constitution of New Mexico by adding a new section of Article 2 that provides the people of the state with environmental rights, including the right to a clean and healthy environment and the right to protection of the environment.

The proposal directs the state to serve as a trustee of natural resources of New Mexico for the benefit of all New Mexicans. It also repeals the current pollution control provisions of Article 20, Section 21. It would allow legal redress when this right is violated by government action or inaction. The amendment needs to pass the State Legislature before going to the voters for approval.

Sponsors Pre-File Green Amendment Resolution in NM Legislature

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The 30 Day session of the New Mexico State Legislature is upon us and we need your help to get the word about the New Mexico Green Amendment. If we can get the Green Amendment through with majority support in each legislative house, the amendment can go to the ballot in 2022 for the people to vote on. We need your help to let the legislators know this is an amendment the people want; and to let them know the people of New Mexico deserve a right to a clean and healthy environment.  Here are some ways to take action

Participate in a Call to Action Webinar on Jan. 11 (Registration Requested)

A Joint Resolution proposing the amendment was pre-filed by the sponsors on Wednesday, January 5, for the 2022 legislative session.   The proposed New Mexico Green Amendment, as it is being called, is receiving strong upfront support with 24 legislators already signing on in support including:  by Senator Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, Representative Joanne Ferrary, Senator Harold Pope, Jr., Senator Bill Soules, Senator Elizabeth “Liz” Stefanics, Senator Gerald Ortiz y Pino, Senator Carrie Hamblen, Representative Tara Lujan, Senator Shannon Pinto, Representative Andrea Romero, Representative Karen Bash, Representative Debbie Sarinana, Representative Roger Montoya, Senator Linda Lopez, Representative Patricia Roybal Caballero, Senator Bill Tallman, Senator Jeff Steinborn, Representative Kay Bounkeua, Representative Christine Trujillo, Representative Elizabeth “Liz” Thomson, Representative Gail Chasey, Representative Miguel Garcia, Representative Kristina Ortez, and Senator Roberto “Bobby” J. Gonzales

The Joint Resolution proposes amending the state constitution’s Bill of Rights to recognize and protect the rights of all of the people of New Mexico “to a clean and healthy environment, including water, air, soil, flora, fauna, ecosystems and climate, and to the preservation of the natural, cultural, scenic and healthful qualities of the environment”; to ensure these rights are protected for present and future generations; and to designate all the state’s government officials as trustees of the natural resources of the state constitutionally obligated to “conserve, protect, and maintain” them.

A New Mexico constitutional Green Amendment is a must have for our beloved ‘Land of Enchantment’,” said Terry A. Sloan, Director of Southwest Native Cultures, Albuquerque, New Mexico, a leader in the Green Amendment movement since its inception here in New Mexico and nationally and an ECOSOC accredited member of the United Nations.  Sloan is also a member of the board of directors of New Mexico and El Paso Region Interfaith Power & Light.