A new report: Driving Clean Energy Deployment highlighting recent progress state leaders have made to overcome barriers to build more affordable clean energy in their states. This work will lower costs for working families and drive down pollution across their communities.

Your weekly resource to learn what the environmental movement is saying about the news of the day and the political fight of our generation.

States across the country are fighting to defend a free and fair democracy. LCV and our state partners in the Conservation Voter Movement have worked to secure legal protections for voters, lessen the damage of Trump’s Project 2025 agenda, and slow the creep of authoritarianism into state legislatures around the country. Here are the most important initiatives each state in the CVM has won this year.

The Department of the Interior has proposed repealing protections for 13 million acres in the Western Arctic.

This year, in legislatures and governors’ offices across the country, we have already seen champions announce ambitious new plans and seek to “Trump-proof” climate goals. In the memo below we’ve laid out new state level clean energy legislation, proposed public transportation and electric vehicle investments, and actions taken to hold the biggest polluters accountable.