Friend, SB 253 is law!

Getting our sponsored bill passed and signed is a HUGE win, one that took three years of hard work. We launched an accountability campaign, broadened and bolstered our support within the environmental and business communities, engaged the media, shaped the public narrative, and ran a multifaceted digital advocacy effort.

It was all worth it, since now we've passed a transformational corporate emissions disclosure policy that will have ripple effects across the globe.

Please make a donation today to celebrate this win and continue the fight for more groundbreaking change → [link removed]

Thank you again for your continued support.

- California Environmental Voters


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From: Mary Creasman, California Environmental Voters
To: [email protected]
Date: October 7, 2023
Subject: A big freaking deal!

I’m overjoyed, friend: Governor Newsom signed SB 253 and SB 261 into law today!

SB 253, which requires the largest corporations to measure and publicly disclose their direct and indirect pollution (all of it!), will have global impacts in our fight to reduce pollution.

It is the biggest climate bill in the country in 2023 — other countries and the White House have reached out to us in the last few months encouraging us in this fight and sharing how important this policy is for them to leverage for corporate climate accountability.

And it would not have passed without EnviroVoters!

Will you make a donation to celebrate this monumental win and continue to invest in our work to champion world-changing climate solutions?

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This nearly three-year-long fight is a story about building power together over years to achieve progress that will have international impacts. It’s taken so much to get to this point…

We launched an accountability campaign after the bill got stuck in the Senate in 2021 to ensure it passed through the Senate in 2022.

We broadened our cosponsor group and built influential business support after the bill failed by one vote on the Assembly floor in 2022. Ceres and Greenlining joined as cosponsors, and we got companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Ikea on board over the next year to combat opposition messaging.

We organized the environmental movement behind it. We got every major environmental group to support the bill (no easy task) and led weekly strategy calls with our cosponsors, including stalwarts Sunrise Bay Area and Carbon Accountable.

The new Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas supported these efforts. Speaker Rivas showed vision and courage taking on the biggest polluters in the state and not letting 253 fail in the Assembly.

We worked to make sure this policy effort was visible and in the public debate by engaging the media and shaping the public narrative.

And we had YOU, friend. Legislators knew the public was behind SB 253 because you were. You made over 500 phone calls and sent 4,000 emails to your elected officials in support of SB 253, in addition to thousands of petition signatures and countless office meetings and conversations with your representatives.

With SB 253 becoming law, we are truly creating a roadmap for global climate action. And we were only able to pull it off because of the resources and support you provide that allow us to run our winning legislative strategy.

Please help us build on this momentum and continue the fight for more groundbreaking change by making a donation today » [link removed]

Building power to make global change on the climate crisis has been our vision since I joined EnviroVoters five years ago, and I’m incredibly grateful to our unmatched staff, boards, funders, partners, and legislative champions for creating this reality together.

This is our opportunity and responsibility in California. Thank you again for your continued support and commitment to climate justice.

Mary Creasman
Chief Executive Officer
California Environmental Voters





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