“Why should corporations have rights, like people do, but the natural environment in a capitalist society seems to have no rights at all? We’ve changed that in Santa Monica, with a pioneering law our City Council passed on my motion: our Sustainability Rights Ordinance.”
– Kevin McKeown, Santa Monica Council member
In March of 2013, after many months of community work to create a more level legal playing field between corporations and environmentalists, Santa Monica adopted California’s first Sustainability Rights Ordinance.
