Preliminary sections

• Author: Franklin L. Kury
• Pages: 1-7

Praise for The Constitutional Question to Save the Planet

Franklin Kury’s book is the story of the evolution of a pioneering constitutional provision that, although nearly forgotten for most of a half century, now through judicial reinterpretation, offers the nation and the world a promise of an environmental commitment that could save the planet over the next half century. How this commitment came to be is the subject of Kury’s firsthand account, and both the language of the Environmental Rights Amendment and the interpretative lessons learned are worthy of widespread emulation.

—Michael Blumm, Jeffrey Bain Faculty Scholar and

Professor of Law at Lewis & Clark Law School

The father of Pennsylvania’s potentially revolutionary constitutional right to a healthy environment tells the compelling story about the origin of the Environmental Amendment, its application in Pennsylvania, and how a similar constitutional right at the federal level could help us tackle the greatest environmental existential threat ever, climate change. A must-read for students of environmental politics and history.

—Ann Carlson, Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law and

Faculty Co-Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change

and the Environment, UCLA School of Law

Protecting the environment, unquestionably the most important issue of our times as we deal with climate change, requires both a state and federal commitment. Pennsylvania, under the strategic leadership of Franklin Kury in his...