Oregon Coalition for an Environmental Rights Amendment
The People's Right to a Healthy Environment
Everyone has the right to a healthy environment. Everyone needs clean air, clean water, and a stable climate to survive and thrive. OCERA is a nonpartisan, grassroots effort dedicated to securing this fundamental right for all, in the highest law of the land, the Oregon Constitution.
Why Do We Need This?
You might think that our constitutional rights to life and liberty include natural life support systems -- that a right to a clean and healthy environment is an implied, enforceable right (and it should be). Unfortunately, case law has made it clear that if it's not expressly stated, there's no guarantee it will be recognized. So, to make our expectations clear, to restore a responsible, sustainable balance between competing interests, we need certain language in the Oregon Constitution to clearly expect and enforce our fundamental right to a healthy environment.
How You Can Help
Interested in supporting OCERA with our effort to get a right to a safe climate enshrined on the Oregon constitution? There are several different ways that you can help support our work. Whether you have skills and time that you would like to lend, or if you have thoughts on amendment language, or if you just want to follow along with news and developments there are several ways to contribute.
