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.

In this month's good climate news, we're celebrating state victories that put people over Big Polluters.

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 on public lands and by the Trump administration and innovation in the states.

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.

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.