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  • August 15 2024
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NBC News: New poll shows climate change as a top issue for young voters

Climate change has become a "deal breaker" issue for young voters, according to a new poll by a Democratic polling firm. 40% of voters under 35 said they will only for for a candidate that prioritizes climate action.

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  • July 31 2024
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TED Talk: Why isn't the climate movement voting?

Watch EVP Founder and Executive Director Nathaniel Stinnett's TED Talk about why increasing voter participation is essential to advancing the climate movement.

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  • July 19 2024
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Living on Earth: Climate Voter Power

EVP Founder and Executive Director Nathaniel Stinnett joins Living on Earth’s Aynsley O’Neill to explain why climate voters are worth tapping into.

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  • July 19 2024
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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
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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
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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.

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  • April 24 2024
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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
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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.

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  • April 5 2024
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Join EVP for Earth Week 2024

Join EVP for Earth Week to to mobilize low propensity voters in Kansas, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, New York, Texas, and Alaska and to learn about our most recent messaging experiment results!

Get out the environmental vote virtual phone bank. Every Friday. Zoom. 11am-12:15pm ET. Environmental Voter Project, Elders Climate Action, Elders for Sound Democracy
  • March 27 2024
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Join Elders Promote the Vote for Weekly Environmental Voter Phone Banks!

Join Elders Climate Action, Elders for Sound Democracy, and the Environmental Voter Project for all-ages phone banks to turn low propensity environmental voters out to vote!

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  • March 29 2023
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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.

Earth Week w/EVP. Join us on Earth Week to learn about our postcarding and to mobilize low propensity voters in GA, KS, NE, and FL.
  • March 29 2023
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Earth Week Action

Join us on Earth Week to learn about our postcarding effort and to mobilize low propensity voters in Georgia, Kansas, Nebraska, and Florida!

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  • March 16 2023
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EVP’s 2022 Impact Report is here!

We're thrilled to share our 2022 Impact Report with you!

Get Out The Vote! November 4-8. Make calls to low propensity environmental voters. It's an efficient and effective way to make an impact.
  • October 6 2022
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Sign up for November 2022 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!

Join EVP to mobilize low propensity environmental voters ahead of November 8th elections in Maine, Virginia, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Arizona.
  • September 20 2022
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Sign up for our Oct. 11 Day of Action

Join first-time and long-time Environmental Voter Project volunteers to call low propensity environmental voters in VA, ME, NH, NM, & AZ ahead of the Nov. 8 election!

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  • July 28 2022
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Battleground State Poll: new data on voters in AZ, GA, NV, and PA

Read key findings from a survey of 3,296 registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and Pennsylvania

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  • July 25 2022
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“I’m not a numbers person, but I love numbers people”: An EVP Volunteer Profile

If there’s one thing the Environmental Voter Project (EVP) does flawlessly, it’s numbers. EVP uses data analytics to identify non-voting environmentalists across 17 states and then applies behavioral science-informed messaging to turn those environmentalists into better voters. To date, EVP has helped turn over 1,030,000 non-voting environmentalists into “super-voters” who now vote in every election.

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  • March 28 2022
  • Blog posts

EVP's 2021 Impact Report is here!

We're thrilled to share our 2021 Impact Report with you!

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  • December 16 2021
  • Blog posts

Why a National Environmental Group Got Involved in a Small Georgia DA's Race

At the end of 2020, the world turned its eyes to Georgia, where two US Senate races were going to runoff elections on January 5th. These races would ultimately decide control of the US Senate, and a stunning $937 million were spent before Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff each claimed victory.

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  • October 21 2021
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“I'm going to strap this baby to my chest and go save the world”: An EVP Volunteer Profile

How do you build connections with voters in the middle of a pandemic? According to Mollee, you show up at their door.

Mollee Sullivan, a star volunteer for the Environmental Voter Project (EVP), has spent months canvassing around her neighborhood in Virginia getting to know potential voters. She is a veteran climate activist and volunteer, and is so committed to getting out the vote that she fits canvassing into whichever open scheduling spots she can, including to and from the farmers market or while she picks up her daughters.

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

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  • March 12 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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  • November 29 2023
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Outrage + Optimism: Moments of Truth

EVP Founder and Executive Director Nathaniel Stinnett speaks with the hosts of Outrage + Optimism about how EVP targets inactive environmentalists, transforming them into consistent voters to build the power of the environmental movement, something which may prove critical given the news that Trump would scrap the landmark IRA and BIL legislations if elected.

  • November 7 2023
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NBC: Independent voters reach record numbers, prioritize climate change heading into 2024

Climate change tops abortion and immigration as a top issue for voters, according to one recent national poll. The nonpartisan Environmental Voter Project hopes to mobilize millions of those climate-first voters in 2024, potentially deciding races in key swing states.

People rally to end fossil fuels in New York Sunday ahead of the 78th United Nations General Assembly and Climate Ambition Summit.
  • September 18 2023
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NPR: Young people think climate change is a top issue but when they vote, it's complicated

Climate change is a major issue for young voters, but so far, it has not been a major mobilizing force in U.S. elections. Some environmental action groups see that changing.

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  • July 6 2023
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Boston Globe: The Environmental Voter Project's eye-catching innovations

The Boston-based nonprofit is doing important work in neglected electioneering areas. By Scot Lehigh, Columnist

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