Editorial: In eco-minded California, there's still no constitutional right to clean air and water

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : States like Montana, which declares "the right to a clean and healthful environment," added this kind of language to their constitutions more than 50 years ago in response to the burgeoning environmental movement.
56% : "In recent years, some of those rarely invoked amendments have seen new life as bases to challenge government decisions over oil and gas permitting and the cleanup of contaminated sites and other environmental hazards.
46% : While a handful of other state constitutions, including those of New York and Pennsylvania, declare the people's rights to clean air, water and a healthy environment, California's does not.That could change as soon as November.

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