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  • September 10 2025
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The Climate Pod: A Massive Climate Political Problem

This week, Nathaniel Stinnett, founder and executive director of the Environmental Voter Project, is back on the show to explore one of the most frustrating obstacles to climate action: the lack of political engagement from many climate-concerned voters.

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  • July 31 2025
  • Blog posts

Poll: Americans Care Deeply About Climate Change but Don’t View It in a Political Context

A national survey released by the Environmental Voter Project reveals that Americans think about climate change more often than issues like abortion, immigration, or gun violence but are far less likely to view it as a political problem. Instead, most Americans view climate change as a matter of personal behavior rather than political action.
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  • April 14 2025
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The 19th: More women view climate change as their number one political issue

EVP Founder and Executive Director Nathaniel Stinnett joins The 19th to highlight new data revealing a striking gender gap among climate voters, exploring how this divide is reshaping climate politics and offering insights into how the movement can better center women’s leadership while expanding outreach to men, especially young male voters.​

2023-24 IMPACT REPORT
  • March 31 2025
  • Blog posts

Announcing EVP's 2023-2024 Impact Report!

We're thrilled to share our 2023-2024 Impact Report with you and invite you to a special briefing webinar where we'll dig in to the results.

Earth Week. April 21-26, 2025. Environmental Voter Project
  • March 12 2025
  • Blog posts

Join EVP for Earth Week 2025

Join EVP for Earth Week to to mobilize low propensity voters with phone banks into Michigan, Texas, and Nebraska!

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  • March 3 2025
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Yale Climate Connections: As the politics of climate change shift, how can ordinary people respond?

According to the founder of the Environmental Voter Project, the best way to move beyond despair is to take action.

Guests on Climate One's Podcast: Dana R. FIsher, Nathaniel Stinnett and Arnab Datta.
  • January 31 2025
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Climate One: What Climate Progress Is Possible Now?

EVP Founder and Executive Director Nathaniel Stinnett joins Climate One to discuss how the climate movement can build political power by reframing the narrative, focusing on voters over politicians, and engaging in every election — not just presidential ones.

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  • January 29 2025
  • Blog posts

3 under-the-radar Climate Elections to watch in 2025

In this edition, we spotlight three under-the-radar 2025 elections that could have a significant impact on climate policy-making. Of course, this fall’s prominent gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia are also crucially important to the climate movement, but the following elections aren’t getting as much attention.
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  • December 12 2024
  • Blog posts

Exit Poll: climate voters were Harris’s strongest supporters

In this edition, we spotlight who climate voters supported in the 2024 presidential election, exit polling data on fracking in Pennsylvania, and how voters in Ann Arbor, MI approved the creation of a local clean energy utility.
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  • 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.

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 13 2024
  • Blog posts

Join Climate Changemakers for environmental voter phone bank Hours of Action!

Join our partners at Climate Changemakers to make calls to low propensity environmental voters during their Hours of Action! Check out the schedule and sign up for these efficient and impactful opportunities to mobilize climate voters.
Earth Week April 22-28, 2024. Environmental Voter Project
  • April 5 2024
  • Blog posts

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
  • Blog posts

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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  • January 25 2024
  • Blog posts

Study: Climate Voters Won the Election for Biden in 2020

In this edition, we spotlight a study on the impact of climate voters in 2020, the US Senate race in Utah, and how an Alabama utility is almost completely controlling local media coverage.
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  • December 5 2023
  • Blog posts

Gray is the New Green: The Growing Strength of Older Climate Voters

The Environmental Voter Project (EVP) released a report highlighting key findings from predictive models identifying environment-first voters aged 65 and older across 18 states.
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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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  • August 15 2024
  • Press

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
  • Press

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
  • 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
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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
  • 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.

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  • 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
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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.

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