Friend, my Capitol Weekly Op-Ed just came out: “A roadmap for meaningful climate action in 2024.”

Here’s the bottom line. To create a safe, liveable future, our lawmakers must:

• Scale clean energy development
• Create resilience against extreme heat, drought, flood, pollution, and catastrophic fire for communities and landscapes
• Electrify buildings and transportation
• Transition the agriculture sector to sustainability and carbon neutrality
• Ensure workforce standards and protection in the transition
• Protect critical biodiversity, ecosystems, lands, and waters

This work requires consistent and sustainable funding.

Achieving these goals to solve the climate crisis in a just, equitable way is possible; in fact, Californians have been ready for our leaders to make the big investments and hold corporate polluters accountable.

Actually doing so is a matter of political will, something EnviroVoters has been laser-focused on influencing.

EnviroVoters has been on the frontlines pushing these big ideas in the legislature and electing the champions we need to author strong legislation and propel it to the finish line. But we’re a small nonprofit up against a war chest from corporate polluters.

Friend, will you make an investment in us to continue to do the work to create a sustainable future for everyone?

While 2023 was a year of overall progress, California took one step backward for every two steps forward. This dropped the state’s overall grade in our California Environmental Scorecard from an A to a B.

California had some momentous victories that are going to steer global market forces toward clean energy and electrification — from the country’s strongest set of corporate emissions transparency and climate risk disclosure rules in SB 253 and SB 261 to the Advanced Clean Fleets rule to transition the transportation sector to zero-emission vehicles

At the same time, our state undermined its own success with some devastating anti-environmental actions, including cutting climate budget investments, extending fossil gas plants, expanding the Aliso Canyon storage facility, and vetoing and failing to pass dozens of critical policies.

As the fifth-largest economy in the world, California has an outsized responsibility to create the policy roadmap for global climate action. We can’t afford any more steps backward.

Friend, we have no doubt that every year can be an “A” year if we have enough resources to continue to push our climate agenda and climate candidates over Big Oil’s polluting interests.

Friend, please help ensure 2024 is a year of big steps forward — and no steps back — by supporting our proven climate action work >>

Thank you for making our work possible.

California Environmental Voters
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California Environmental Voters (EnviroVoters) exists to build the political power to solve the climate crisis, advance justice, and create a roadmap for global action. To protect our air, land, water, and future, we organize voters, elect and train candidates, and hold lawmakers accountable for bold policy change. Our vision is to solve the climate crisis, build resilient, connected, healthy communities, and create a democracy and economy that is just and sustainable for all.

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