A Colorado Right to A Healthy Environment Amendment
The effort to educate and advocate for A Colorado Right to A Healthy Environment Amendment (Colorado’s version of a Colorado Green Amendment) is taking hold. Our coalition, which includes advocates and organizations from across the state, is coming together to educate communities about the values of giving constitutional protection to their environmental rights using bill of rights placement and carefully crafted language that meets the Green Amendment criteria.
While we did receive support from state officials for a proposed Colorado Green Amendment in 2026, last-minute interference from the oil and gas industry has temporarily paused our legislative progress. So at this time, we are focusing our energy on educating and engaging with Colorado communities about the values of a Colorado Green Amendment to build momentum for the future.
Green Amendments For The Generations – the Colorado Green Amendment
Green Amendments For The Generations is an organization working across the nation to secure highest constitutional recognition and protection for our human rights to clean air, pure water, a safe climate, and healthy environments, for both present and future generations. We are proud to partner with on-the-ground leaders in Colorado state to provide resources, expertise, and capacity for the Colorado Right to A Healthy Environment Amendment movement (the Environmental Rights Amendment).
Our organization has helped to ensure a vibrant Pennsylvania Green Amendment and lead the effort to secure New York’s Green Amendment in 2021. Learn more about the national Green Amendments For The Generations organization.
Green Amendments For The Generations seeks to inspire and support pursuit and passage of self-executing, environmental rights amendments in the Bill of Rights section of every state constitution across the U.S. and ultimately at the federal level.
Once this is accomplished, we will work with communities to ensure strong and meaningful implementation and enforcement of their constitutional Green Amendment rights, just as we are doing in the states that have so far achieved these protections. Learn about our legal and advocacy successes, and our ongoing legal and advocacy efforts.

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Colorado Right to A Healthy Environment Amendment
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Talk with Maya
Maya K. van Rossum is the Founder of the Green Amendment movement & author of “The Green Amendment” book. She has also served as the Delaware Riverkeeper for over 27 years.
The Green Amendment
Learn about “The Green Amendment: Securing Our Right to a Healthy Environment” – a book by Maya K. van Rossum.
“Invite me to speak, helping to inspire our nation to demand Pennsylvania’s promise of environmental protection for all.”
—Maya K. Van Rossum, Founder of the Green Amendment movement
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Colorado Right to A Healthy Environment Amendment
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