FloridaRightToCleanWater.org
13300 S. Cleveland Ave, Suite 56
Fort Myers, FL 33907
Ballot Title:
Amendment Information
Ballot Summary:
Right to Clean and Healthy Waters
This amendment creates an enforceable, fundamental right to clean and healthy waters,
authorizing a person to sue for equitable relief when a State executive agency, by action or
inaction, allows harm or threat of harm to Florida waters. This amendment provides for strict
judicial scrutiny of such action or inaction; adds to available remedies; identifies affected
constitutional provisions; provides for enforcement; defines terms; and requires attorney’s
fees and costs to prevailing plaintiffs.
(From their website, where petition is available)
"It has become clear that the current system of water protection is inadequate. The state executive branch is not enforcing clean water legislation according to environmental laws, legislative intent and constitutional policy. (Link goes to a Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility report on Florida's enforcement.)
"The proof of dysfunction frequently makes national news, with routine harmful algal blooms, fish and wildlife mortality events and public notices of pathogenic or toxic contamination of our waters. It’s not okay. People suffer, wildlife suffers, property values suffer, businesses suffer, communities suffer. Waiting for political solutions in a system that appears to favor pollution industries (financing those politics) – seems to be a fool’s game. We need a clear, simple, legal solution to restore the necessary checks and balances for such a critical necessity to all lives and liberty interests – clean water."
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