Electoral College votes 2024
  • November 25 2024
  • Blog posts

2024 was a Landslide...for 'Did Not Vote'

A new analysis by the Environmental Voter Project shows that 85.9 million eligible voters skipped the 2024 general election.

Climate Change is on the ballot.
  • October 30 2024
  • Press

Grist: 5 ways to get out the vote for climate in the final days before the U.S. presidential election

EVP Executive Director Nathaniel Stinnett speaks with Grist about the critical connection between climate action and democracy and shares five actionable ways anyone can help get out the vote for the environment in the final days before the U.S. presidential election.

EVP and Third Act canvassing volunteers attending a training.
  • October 25 2024
  • Press

CBS News: Climate groups working to mobilize early voters and track new climate voters in battleground states

Across Philadelphia, dozens of silver haired, climate-conscious canvassers are going door to door in the last weeks before Election Day, leaving green slips of paper with guides on how to register to vote this year.

Nathaniel Stinnett being interviewed on CBS News 24/7.
  • October 23 2024
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CBS News: Could new, environmental voters decide the 2024 election?

Nathaniel Stinnett, the founder and executive director of the Environmental Voter Project, joins CBS News with more details on efforts to mobilize voters around climate issues.

Hilary Naiberk and Nikhil Lakhani role play a canvassing interaction to train other Environmental Voter Project volunteers. (Sophia Schmidt/WHYY)
  • October 8 2024
  • Press

WHYY: Volunteers knock on doors to create climate ‘super-voters’ in Philadelphia

The Environmental Voter Project targets people who are passionate about climate and the environment, but rarely or never vote.

Jason Sudeikis and Ayana Elizabeth Johnson dance off at our LA Climate Variety Show. Lead Locally programmed Dance Dance Revolution boards so that every step sent a text to a voter to remind them to #VoteClimate – when we’re texting climate voters, everyone wins! (Photo: Elisa Ferrari)
  • October 6 2024
  • Press

What If We Get It Right?: Episode 2 - Vote Climate ✅

8 million environmental voters did not vote in the 2020 election 🤯

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  • October 2 2024
  • Press

New Faces of Democracy: Nathaniel Stinnett of the Environmental Voter Project

EVP Founder and Executive Director joined the New Faces of Democracy Podcast to discuss the Environmental Voter Project's goal to build political power for climate issues not by changing minds but by changing behavior.

GET OUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL VOTE. November 1-5, 2024.
  • September 25 2024
  • Blog posts

Sign up for November 2024 GOTV Shifts Today!

Join first-time and long-time Environmental Voter Project volunteers to call low propensity environmental voters in ahead of the Nov. 4 election!

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  • September 25 2024
  • Press

Capital & Main: Georgia’s Young Climate Voters Could Help Push Harris Past Trump

In the face of extreme heat and rising sea levels, the state is welcoming billions of dollars in clean-energy projects.

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  • September 15 2024
  • Press

CBS Miami: The politics of climate change

EVP Founder and Executive Director Nathaniel Stinnett speaks with CBS News Miami's Jim DeFede about the Politics of Climate Change.

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  • November 21 2023
  • Blog posts

Is The Next Big Climate Election in Houston?

In this edition, we spotlight the Dec. 9 mayoral runoff election in Houston, a below-the-radar election result in Kansas that could have big climate implications, and some great clean energy news out of Michigan.
GET OUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL VOTE. November 3-7, 2023.
  • September 26 2023
  • Blog posts

Sign up for November 2023 GOTV Shifts Today!

Join first-time and long-time Environmental Voter Project volunteers to call low propensity environmental voters in ahead of the Nov. 8 election!

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  • September 20 2023
  • Blog posts

Americans Support Climate Justice. They Just Don’t Know What It Is

In this edition, we spotlight a Texas preemption law that will impede local climate action, some recent polling on climate justice, and new data on the staggering number of Houston residents who are concerned about climate change. We’re not always a Texas-heavy newsletter, but we are this month!
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  • August 18 2023
  • Blog posts

Georgia’s Neverending Utility Commission Race Keeps Going and Going and Going

In this edition, we spotlight a neverending election for Georgia’s Public Service Commission, recent polling on the interplay between eco-anxiety and climate action, and a rightwing plan for the next President to dismantle US climate policy.
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  • July 12 2023
  • Blog posts

Paying Your Utility Bill Shouldn't Be A Political Contribution

In this edition, we spotlight a new Connecticut law banning utilities from billing customers for lobbying expenses, a New Hampshire poll that shows a growing number of climate-first voters, and a federal civil rights investigation in Alabama that could lead to sewage infrastructure being treated as an environmental justice and civil rights matter.
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  • June 15 2023
  • Blog posts

Overlooked in Climate Politics: Will It Get Easier to Vote in New York?

In this edition, we highlight California legislation that might force large companies to detail their greenhouse gas emissions, a groundbreaking climate change case in Montana, and a possibly dramatic expansion of vote-by-mail rights in New York — a state which could decide control of the US House in 2024.
Rise of the Asian American Environmental Voter
  • May 22 2023
  • Blog posts

Rise of the Asian American Environmental Voter

The Environmental Voter Project (EVP) released a new report highlighting the disproportionately large numbers of Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) environmentalists identified by EVP's February 2023 predictive modeling data across all 19 states.
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  • May 15 2023
  • Blog posts

Overlooked in Climate Politics: Will Maine Get a Customer-Owned Utility?

In this edition, we highlight Denver’s upcoming mayoral election, a fall ballot question that could give Maine a customer-owned non-profit utility, and a Tennessee law requiring local governments to include harmful methane gas in their clean energy standards.
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  • April 24 2023
  • Blog posts

Overlooked in Climate Politics: Don’t Frack with Our Water!

Welcome to the inaugural edition of “Overlooked in Climate Politics” — the Environmental Voter Project’s new monthly newsletter that gives you a quick rundown of 3 under-reported stories in climate politics. We hope you enjoy the newsletter and forward it to your friends (they can sign up here)! In this edition, we highlight a city charter amendment in El Paso, TX, a County Executive race in fracking country, and a bunch of new voting laws.

 

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  • March 29 2023
  • Blog posts

Report: The Hidden Potential of Green Voters in Red States

The Environmental Voter Project (EVP) today released new research highlighting the latent political power of environmental voters in 12 traditionally purple and red states – AK, AZ, FL, GA, IA, KS, LA, NE, NV, NC, PA, and TX.

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  • July 19 2024
  • Press

Climate One: What’s at Stake in November

EVP Founder and Executive Director Nathaniel Stinnett speaks with the hosts of Climate One about what’s at stake in the November election.

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  • May 16 2024
  • Press

Mass Climate Action Network: How you can help climate folks become reliable voters

EVP Organizing Director Shannon Seigal joins MCAN's The Climate Minute Series to discuss how you can help people concerned about climate issues become reliable voters.

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  • May 1 2024
  • Press

ABC News Live Prime: Turning out the climate change vote

ABC News’ MaryAlice Parks reports on the volunteers recruiting voters who care about climate change and the advocates working to make climate change a bigger election issue.

Voters at the polls casting their ballots in Clark County Nevada
  • April 24 2024
  • Press

Yale Climate Connections: ‘Basic peer pressure’: The plan to turn out millions of pro-climate voters in the 2024 U.S. election

EVP Founder and Executive Director Nathaniel Stinnett talks with Yale Climate Connections to discuss EVP's approach and the strategies anyone can use when talking with friends and family about the upcoming November election.

ABC News' MaryAlice Parks interviews Environmental Voter Project volunteers in Pittsburgh, PA. Photo Credit: Julia Cherner/ABC News
  • April 21 2024
  • Press

ABC News: Climate advocates want to solve their 'biggest problem' in the US: Turning out voters

Climate advocates look to make progress this election year with better voter turnout. ABC News’ MaryAlice Parks talks to environmental advocates trying to gain voting power.

Protesters at a rally holding signs that read "Vote for Climate" and "Today's Weather: 412 PPM"
  • March 12 2024
  • Press

KALW: How important is climate change to voters?

EVP Founder and Executive Director Nathaniel Stinnett joins KALW's Your Call's One Planet Series to discuss a recent University of Colorado Boulder study about the role of climate change in shaping voting choices.

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  • March 4 2024
  • Press

Bloomberg: Many Environmentalists Don’t Vote. This Group Wants to Change That

“The climate movement doesn’t have a persuasion problem as much as we have a turnout problem,” says Nathaniel Stinnett of the Environmental Voter Project.

Hazel Chandler is part of a largely unrecognized contingent of the climate movement in the United States: the climate grannies. (CAITLIN O'HARA FOR THE 19TH)
  • January 31 2024
  • Press

The 19th: These are the climate grannies. They’ll do whatever it takes to protect their grandchildren.

They have the generational wisdom, environmental activism experience, free time — and they're not afraid of getting arrested.

Students rally at the Texas Capitol as part of an international youth climate strike in 2019.
  • December 11 2023
  • Press

Texas Standard: Older voters are second only to young people in share of ‘climate voters,’ new study shows

Inside Climate News reporter Marianne Lavelle spoke with the Texas Standard about a recent report from the Environmental Voter Project that says “gray is the new green,” as voters who prioritize climate are numerous enough to swing elections in key states.

Seniors in New York City and a coalition of environmental groups marching with a banner that reads "Chase Funds Climate Crimes" at a rally on March 21, 2023 as part of a National Day of Action to pressure the major banks to stop financing the expansion of the fossil fuel industry
  • December 5 2023
  • Press

Inside Climate News: Older Voters Are Second Only to Young People in Share of ’Climate Voters,’ New Study Shows

A report from the Environmental Voter Project says “gray is the new green," as voters who prioritize climate are numerous enough to swing elections in key states.

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