Across the country, voters turned out to elect state and local leaders who will make enormous decisions to protect our environment and democracy. Our state affiliates invested all year to make sure environmental champions won these races.

Your weekly resource to learn what the environmental movement is saying about the news of the day and the political fight of our generation. This week, we’re covering clean energy investment and attacks on voting rights.

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.

Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans' attacks on clean energy have raised utility bills for people nationwide. In response, state leaders are advancing clean energy to lower energy costs and pollution. Here are the most important state laws and actions so far this year, and how LCV and our state partners in the Conservation Voter Movement helped make them happen.

Your weekly resource to learn what the environmental movement is saying about the news of the day and the political fight of our generation. This week, we’re covering efforts to hold Trump and Republicans in Congress accountable.

Your weekly resource to learn what the environmental movement is saying about the news of the day and the political fight of our generation. This week, we’re covering attacks from the Trump administration and Congress on popular conservation programs and renewable energy.

As the Trump administration cuts clean energy and climate programs, these states know rising electricity costs and climate disasters mean we need to increase clean energy and climate resources, not take them away.

Each month, LCV shares five stories about our work. This month, we’re focusing on how we’re holding Republicans accountable for their disastrous budget, our Wisconsin affiliate’s clean water win, Chispa’s latest pollution protections, our public lands road show, and how we’re equipping new candidates to win downballot races.

LCV Candidate Academy alum Kate Daniels talks lessons from the training and how she applied them to her successful campaign for County Supervisor of Monterey County, California.

This month, we’re celebrating states' efforts to lower energy costs by increasing renewable energy, holding utilities accountable, and more.