Dear Friend,

Today marks the 100th day of the Biden-Harris administration. To celebrate this milestone, LCV has taken stock of what the president has already accomplished and outlined what we hope the administration and Congress will do in the next few months.
 

Earlier today, LCV held an event to release our new report, 100 Days in Office: A Foundation for Transformational Change, which details the many ways in which the Biden-Harris administration has started to deliver on its historic campaign commitments to tackle the climate crisis, confront racial, environmental, and economic injustice, and fix our democracy.

Just 100 days in, the administration has already made considerable progress. LCV applauds the Biden-Harris administration for:

1. Appointing a historic team of leaders on climate, justice, and democracy, including a visionary cabinet and expert personnel who bring diverse identities, skills, and experiences to the national decision-making table.
2. Creating internal infrastructure to ensure that climate and environmental justice priorities permeate the entire executive branch.
3. Signing important executive orders to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement, stop the Keystone XL pipeline, halt drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, halt the xenophobic and racist border wall, start to undo more than 100 Trump-era rollbacks of health and environmental protections, and much more.
4. Announcing an ambitious economic and infrastructure recovery package, the American Jobs Plan, which prioritizes climate and clean energy, justice, and jobs.
5. Supporting democracy reforms that will make our government more equitable and fair, especially for people who have long been disenfranchised from the process.

In the coming months, LCV will continue to keep pressure on the Biden-Harris administration to act boldly across the federal government. Through lobbying and grassroots organizing, we will push Congress to enact transformational legislation to help build a more just society, tackle the climate crisis, and strengthen our democracy. We will push for policies that:

• Put the U.S. on the path to 100% carbon-free energy powering our electricity and new cars, buses, and buildings by 2035.
• Center justice and equity for low-income communities and communities of color harmed by the legacy of toxic pollution, including fulfilling the president’s promise to deliver 40% of benefits to these most-impacted communities.
• Support the maintenance and creation of millions of high-quality, good paying jobs across the economy, especially in the domestic clean energy and manufacturing sectors and across.
• Harness our public lands and waters for climate solutions and resiliency.
• Deliver safe drinking water for every community.

As outlined in our 100 Days report, we will also push for critical democracy reforms that restore trust in elections and make our country more inclusive and responsive to the people’s will to act on climate and other priorities. We are mobilizing support for:

• The For the People Act, a sweeping package passed by the House to expand and protect the right to vote, end partisan and racial gerrymandering, get polluter money out of politics, and restore transparency and accountability in government.
• Washington, D.C., statehood, H.R. 51, which has also passed the House, so that the unrepresented residents of our nation’s capital — more than half of whom are people of color — can have their voices fully heard in our democracy.
• The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to restore essential provisions from the 1965 Voting Rights Act that protect against racial discrimination in voting practices, which still exists today.

The next six months are the climate moment that LCV has worked to create for over a decade. We must not miss it.

Onward,

Gene Karpinski
President
League of Conservation Voters

P.S. Please find LCV’s report on the First 100 Days of the Biden-Harris administration here.