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.
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.
Join us on Earth Week to learn about our postcarding effort and to mobilize low propensity voters in Georgia, Kansas, Nebraska, and Florida!
Louisiana Lefty: Environmental Superpower with Nathaniel Stinnett
EVP Founder and Executive Director Nathaniel Stinnett speaks with Louisiana Lefty host Lynda Woolard to share the exciting news that the nonpartisan, nonprofit EVP is expanding their work into Louisiana!.
The New Republic: Five Ways to Force Washington to Pass Better Climate Policies
The Environmental Voter Project’s work is called out by The New Republic in a list of ways to push the federal government to pass better climate policies
NBC News: Seeking motivated voters, an environment-focused nonprofit turns to red states
The Environmental Voter Project said they see an opportunity to bridge the partisan gap, noting that many Republican-led states are home to some of the worst climate-fueled impacts — and potentially the most significant opportunities for reform.
HuffPost: A Million-Strong ‘Army Of Environmental Super Voters’ Seeks New Recruits In 2 Red States
The Environmental Voter Project is expanding to Louisiana and Nebraska ahead of key state elections.
My Views Are My Own: The Environmental Voter Project with Nathaniel Stinnett
EVP Founder and Executive Director Nathaniel Stinnett joins Doug McDonald of the My Views Are My Own podcast to discuss how EVP was created, why some environmentalists don't vote, and why some people consider the environment to be a partisan issue.
NPR - Living On Earth: Green Voters Help Democrats
EVP Executive Director Nathaniel Stinnett joins Living on Earth Host Steve Curwood to take a look at the impact of environmentally focused voters at the ballot box during the midterm election season.
Citizen's Climate Lobby: Environmental Voter Project helped put climate near top of national agenda
At Citizens’ Climate Lobby, we often say the solution to climate change is democracy. Well, the first step to engage with our democracy is voting. Research shows, however, that many who are concerned about the state of our climate don’t even take that initial step. In fact, tens of millions of people who identify as environmentalists have been no-shows at the polls on election day.
Living on Earth: Georgia's green voters helped deliver the Senate to the Democrats
Voters most likely to rank the environment as their top priority are young, Black or Latino, and they were key voters in the two recent senatorial wins in Georgia that gave the majority to Democrats.
Mother Earth Podcast: Nathaniel Stinnett on how to make our leaders protect the environment
In this second of two special bonus episodes to Season One of the Mother Earth Podcast, we sit down for a timely conversation with Nathaniel Stinnett, founder and executive director of the Environmental Voter Project.
The Climate Pod: What Motivates Environmental Voters?
This week, Nathaniel Stinnett, founder and executive director of the Environmental Voter Project, joins the show to answer one basic question: what the hell is going on with environmental voters? Just kidding...kinda.
Our Daily Planet: Environmental Voters Were Highly Influential This Year
This week we were so excited to get to sit down with Nathaniel Stinnett, executive director and founder of the Environmental Voter Project, to get some insights about the recent election and what climate activists can learn from it. Nathaniel brings some truly valuable insight into who climate voters are, what happened with the Latinx vote in 2020, and what EVP is planning in Georgia for the special Senate races currently underway.
My Climate Journey: Nathaniel Stinnett Returns!
Back by popular demand, today's guest is Nathaniel Stinnett, Founder and Executive Director of the Environmental Voter Project, a non-profit that aims to significantly increase voter demand for environmental leadership by identifying inactive environmentalists and then turning them into consistent activists and voters.
Living on Earth: Mustering Georgia's Environmental Voters
The 2020 Presidential election had a historic turnout, including young voters and voters of color, who are statistically more likely than other voters to list climate or the environment as their top priority when voting. Nathaniel Stinnett explains to Steve Curwood how turnout of environmentally-focused voters might influence Georgia's twin US Senate run-off elections January 5th.
The Washington Post: So How Much Did Climate Change Matter In The 2020 Election?
Two big issues dominated the 2020 election: the economy and the coronavirus pandemic. But voters concerned about climate change still helped Joe Biden win the White House.
WHYY: Pennsylvania Environmentalists Actually Voted This Year. That's A Big Deal.
In the battleground state of Pennsylvania, voters prioritizing environmental issues may have tipped the scales of the election in favor of Joe Biden.
Heated: 600,000 new environmental voters
Since the election, a lot of ink has been spilled about youth voter turnout, which increased about 8 percent compared to 2016. Part of this is undoubtedly due to the climate movement. But not all climate-related get-out-the-vote efforts were focused on people under the age of 35