Each month, LCV shares five stories about the impact of our work. This month, we’re focusing on how our state affiliates helped elect clean energy and climate champions in New Jersey, Virginia, Georgia, and elsewhere in 2025 — and we preview who LCV Action Fund has endorsed for Congress in 2026.

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 wins for democracy on redistricting and an endorsement announcement.

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.

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.

This month, we’re celebrating new bills introduced by climate champions in Congress, as well as big climate legislation and investment wins in six states across the country.

Each month, LCV shares five stories about the impact of our work. This month, we’re introducing the new LCV president, explaining the LCV v. Trump Part II lawsuit, celebrating history-making women in Congress, and featuring state democracy and clean energy wins in Idaho, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

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.