Washington, DC: In response to the results of the 2024 Presidential Election, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) issued the following statement from President Gene Karpinski:

“The outcome of the election is deeply disappointing, but the clean energy economy is here to stay. Trump’s attacks on clean energy and his plans to enact Project 2025’s dangerous agenda are extremely unpopular. We applaud all the climate champions who ran this year and are grateful to everyone who worked so hard.

We are fiercely committed to defending people and the planet and we know how to fight back against what is coming. After 2016 we focused on making progress in the states and blocking Trump’s most extreme policies and appointments. States are even more powerful now and can continue to make progress while also pushing back on Trump. We will fight against the extreme MAGA Republicans’ agenda to not only gut the Inflation Reduction Act, protections for our clean air, clean water, and our public lands, but also our voting rights, our reproductive rights, immigrant rights, and our democracy itself. These attacks are bad policy and bad politics, and we will fight like hell to stop them at the federal level while continuing to advance progress at the state and local level.

We are already looking ahead to electing climate and democracy champions in 2025, 2026 and beyond.”

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