§ 116B.01 — Purpose
Plain-Language Summary
This section explains the purpose of the Minnesota Environmental Rights Act. It recognizes that every person has a right to a clean environment and establishes the right to sue to protect natural resources from pollution, destruction, or other harmful actions.
116B.01 PURPOSE.
The legislature finds and declares that each person is entitled by right to the protection, preservation, and enhancement of air, water, land, and other natural resources located within the state and that each person has the responsibility to contribute to the protection, preservation, and enhancement thereof. The legislature further declares its policy to create and maintain within the state conditions under which human beings and nature can exist in productive harmony in order that present and future generations may enjoy clean air and water, productive land, and other natural resources with which this state has been endowed. Accordingly, it is in the public interest to provide an adequate civil remedy to protect air, water, land and other natural resources located within the state from pollution, impairment, or destruction.
History:
1971 c 952 s 1; 1986 c 444
History: History: 1971 c 952 s 1; 1986 c 444