MARCH 2, 2022 – Throughout Rep. Ted Deutch’s tenure in Congress, Citizens’ Climate Lobby has appreciated his steadfast commitment to climate action. Our volunteers in Florida’s 22nd district have seen Rep. Deutch and his staff work tirelessly to protect not just their beloved home district, but also the whole country, from the worst impacts of climate […]
In 18 days, over 100 million Americans have an election. We know that millions of environmentalists are unlikely to vote, though, unless they get a nudge from an Environmental Voter Project volunteer…but we need your help to make those nudges. We need volunteers like you for our GOTV shifts so we can make new voters in places […]
Right after a landslide victory against numerous Republican contenders in the fourth gubernatorial recall election in the nation’s history, California Governor Gavin Newsom now faces renewed calls from environmentalists to address the climate crisis. By Dan Bacher They urged him to stop all new fossil fuel permits, ending fossil fuel drilling and instituting immediate buffer zones between drill operations […]
It’s about to get harder for many people to cast ballots in elections. Across the country, new laws in 17 states will reduce the number of polling places, impose new ID regulations, complicate the vote-by-mail process and introduce a range of other barriers that undermine the right to vote. By Dan Lashof and Carla Walker World Resources Institute To prevent […]
On Wednesday, we learned that Jon Ossoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock had won their Senate races, clinching Democratic control of the House, Senate, and presidency. After months of intense work to elect climate champions up and down the ballot, we finally have leaders committed to climate action in the White House and both houses of […]
It’s been far too long to continue the noisy sounds of election fraud – it’s simply “fake news” and, at best, only the song of those unable to accept the defeat of their favored candidate, or at worst, those trying to subvert justice and righteousness by destroying our democracy and those words enshrined in our […]
With the Georgia runoff election happening TODAY, we need your help (from wherever you are!) to mobilize and get out the vote. Senate control is up for grabs today – and as Mitch McConnell has proved over and over, as long as the GOP controls the levers of power, there will be NO action on […]
2020 is coming to a close, and it can’t end fast enough. But as the year winds down, I am buoyed by two big climate victories on the same day, perched atop a clear change in direction mandated by the election. By Ken Kimmel The Equation Blog / Union of Concerned Scientists First, Congress just […]
(The Flip Georgia project is the legitimate daughter of the Flip 2020 project which operated in Maine through the general election. Out of state activists, organizers and street performers are working with locals groups to register voters, canvass door to door and raise voter awareness of the critical runoff election on Jan 5th.) By Paxus Calta […]
With the Georgia runoff election in less than a month, we need YOUR help to make sure voters have a plan to vote. By People For The American Way . Join Alyssa Milano this Wednesday, December 9th at 5:00 PM ET to phonebank for the upcoming Georgia election!>> Director Robert Greenwald will also be joining […]
You have likely seen people from across the country asking on social media what they can do to help the Georgia senate runoff elections. The most frequent answer is “Phone Bank and Donate!” The Flip 2020 project is dedicated to a more varied (and we believe more effective) set of responses to this question. Specifically, we […]
If you’d like to make a donation to a worthy cause on this Giving Tuesday… For the past ten years, I’ve been editing and publishing RedGREENandBlue.org, a website that brings together progressive and conservative voices in favor of climate change action. Unfortunately, with the current coronavirus economic meltdown, we’ve lost our primary funding source. So we’ve […]
Governments are in uncharted territory as they respond to the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic — but that doesn’t mean they can’t learn from the past. The most recent comparison is the global financial crisis that began in 2007. It was a smaller economic downturn than what we are experiencing today and the world didn’t […]
President-elect Joe Biden has announced that he will appoint former U.S. Senator and Secretary of State John Kerry to be his special presidential envoy for climate, a new position in the cabinet. Responses from national environmental, climate, indigenous and public interests groups to Biden’s announcement ranged from praise by the Sierra Club to cause for […]
As of late summer, governments around the world had pledged US$12.2 trillion of relief in response to the coronavirus pandemic. That’s around 15% of global GDP, three times larger than government spending put forward during and after the 2008-2009 global financial crisis and enough for every adult in the world to receive a $2,000 check. […]