It can’t be overstated: this year’s elections will be a deciding point on climate and so much more. The 2024 elections will test this country’s commitment to many issues: climate action, abortion access, racial justice, and even democracy itself.

We’re endorsing some of the strongest climate leaders in the country running in the toughest and most important races for climate action – and we need your help so they win! Please donate today to elect our 2024 Summer Green New Deal slate of climate leaders! We’ll be rolling out new endorsements weekly – so stay tuned as we build out a class of climate movement candidates to win this fall.

In the lead up to November’s presidential election, there are state and local elections that have huge impact on climate, environmental justice, access to abortion, housing, public education and more. What’s more, driving turnout for progressives in these critical down ballot elections helps us win up-ballot at the congressional, AND the presidential level.

At Lead Locally, we are helping recruit, train, and resource leaders that, if elected, will:

• Protect majorities in swing state legislatures that recently passed major climate legislation or build inroads in states that must do more;
• Challenge the fossil fuel industry and pass cutting edge legislation for the climate movement in more progressive states that must lead by example;
• And lead as Green New Deal Mayors and City Councillors in cities across the country where they can pass bills to support clean energy, enact bold environmental justice plans, and lead on progressive reform.

All eyes this year of course will be on the White House – but many of these races require just a fraction of what a Senate or presidential race costs, and your money in these elections go SO much further to elect bold climate champs to important positions. Help elect Green New Deal leaders across the country this fall by donating today!

• Arizona: All eyes are on Arizona this year, as the state not only will help decide the White House and Senate, but also Democrats could flip both chambers of their state legislature and secure a trifecta to usher in new climate legislation. Arizonans will also vote on a critical ballot measure to protect abortion access making it all the more important we give our support to these progressive leaders:
  • Judy Schwiebert for Senate District 2: Schwiebert is an incumbent State Representative now running for the Senate who has served her community an English teacher, school librarian, mom, and cofounder of a community theater. In office, she’s cosponsored bills to preserve the state’s groundwater and tackle the state’s water crisis – and is fighting to elect a state house majority in both chambers to pass these efforts!
  • Stephanie Simacek for House District 2: Simacek is a mom, former 1st grade teacher, and Deer Valley Unified School District governing board member who is running to ensure the state invests in conservation, infrastructure, and environmental policies so it does not continue to over-rely on water from the Colorado River and grapple with its water scarcity.
  • Lorena Austin for House District 9: Like their family who spans five generations of civil rights attorneys, teachers, and social workers in Mesa, Austin has given back to their community working in the Maricopa County Community College for over a decade. As an incumbent legislator, Austin has advocated for strong clean energy incentives and needed water conservation measures for the state.
  • Seth Blattman for House District 9: Blattman has been a strong advocate for climate measures in office – namely by leading on negotiations for the renewal of Prop 400, an infrastructure bill that helped fund critical repair for public transportation in the Phoenix metro region. We’re fighting to keep him in office as a strong advocate for clean energy, public transit investments, and water conservation in a critical swing district.
  • Brian Garcia for House District 8: Garcia is a community advocate and lawyer in Phoenix who is running as a Clean Elections candidate, so he can be a reliable advocate for clean energy, public school funding, abortion access, and much more.
  • Juan Mendez House District 8: An incumbent legislator and former community organizer, Mendez was inspired to run because he saw how public investments in education, workforce training, food assistance programs, and childcare helped lift his family out of poverty. He’s fighting to enshrine environmental protections in the state’s constitution and further fight for public investments in community. 
  • Anna Hernandez for Phoenix City Council Ward 7: Hernandez has served in the State Senate where she was a voice for climate justice, workers, and the state’s progressive movement. As the Ward most impacted by industrial activity in Phoenix, Hernandez plans to push stronger environmental justice protections that tackle pollution shortening community members’ life expectancy, and that expand heat protections for workers. 
  • Matias Rosales for House District 23: Rosales is a three-term elected official in San Luis who has consistently advocated for legislation that promotes the transition to clean and renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar, and hydroelectric power.
  • Stacey Seaman for Senate District 16: Seaman is a local teacher and community advocate in Casa Grande who served on the Arts and Humanities Commission and the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board. She’s running to  protect Arizona’s groundwater supply for future generations and ensuring that all communities in Arizona have access to clean and safe water.
  • Keith Seaman for House District 16: Seaman has been a teacher, principal, school board member and superintendent in Mohave County – and as a current legislator strongly advocates for protecting and expanding the Arizona Groundwater Management Act and for the expansion for solar power usage in Arizona.
  • Eva Burch for Senate District 9: After a career in nursing, Burch was elected to the state legislature in 2022 where she has fought for investments in renewable energy and opposed harmful legislation. She’s looking forward to electing a more balanced and progressive legislature so the state can take action on climate, invest in infrastructure, and to expand public transportation.
  • Brandy Reese for House District 13: Reese is a forensic scientist who was elected President of the Southwestern Association of Forensic Scientists, and has been a tireless advocate for schools in her neighborhood. If elected, Reese will support and fight to ensure the Arizona House votes for environmental action on clean energy, environmental justice, and water stewardship.
  • Karen Gresham for House District 4: As the current President of the Madison Elementary School District’s governing board, Gresham has encouraged the expansion of solar panels on campuses and obtained grants for electric school buses. She believes Arizona needs more solar energy, heat mitigation, and a solution to the water crisis.
  • Jonathan Hill for Arizona Corporation Commission: Hill is a scientist and researcher who has spent the last 18 years at Arizona State University, contributing to several NASA space missions. His extensive engineering experience gives him an understanding of the challenges facing AZ’s power generation and water distribution infrastructure, and the ability to advocate for climate action and for ratepayers against unnecessary rate hikes. 
  • Joshua Polacheck for Arizona Corporation Commission: Polachek has served almost twenty years as a commissioned US Foreign Service Officer and is running to make generational investments to Arizona’s power grid to bring energy independence, not dependence on expensive and dirty fossil fuels.
  • Ylenia Aguilar for Arizona Corporation Commission: Aguilar has served as Governing Board Member in the Osborn School District and a member of the Central Arizona Water Conservation District. Aguilar’s heritage as an indigenous woman from Mexico instilled in her a profound reverence for the Earth and its finite resources, and she plans to fight for a transition towards renewable energy.
    
• California: We’re backing bold climate leaders in one of the country’s most progressive states that can exemplify state and climate policy leadership. In the state legislature, we’re backing grassroots-led progressives in tough runoffs who’ll be able to push for stronger regulations on the fossil fuel industry. Several cities will also hold exciting municipal races for climate as well such as: a) Irvine who has a newly districted city council that Democrats can actually win with a Clean Slate excited to pass building electrification legislation, and b) Richmond where progressives have won a governing majority and mayoralty and are running new candidates for retiring incumbents and a Polluters Pay ballot initiative to tax the local refinery for climate damages.
  • Dr. Flojaune “Flo” Cofer for Sacramento Mayor: Dr. Cofer has a long history of advocating for public health equity, and was the top vote getter in the primary as a progressive running to be Sacramento’s next Mayor. She’s headed to a runoff and, if elected, will pass a Green New Deal for Sacramento to transition the city to 100% renewable energy while creating jobs from building new bike lanes, weatherizing existing homes, planting trees, and building sustainable affordable housing.
  • Ayn Craciun for Irvine City Council District 4: Craciun chairs the City of Irvine Sustainability Commission and played a crucial role in founding the Orange County Power Authority, which introduced clean energy choices to the area for the first time, as well as establishing Irvine’s policy to eliminate fossil gas use in new buildings. She’s running to ensure the city’s climate plan is legally binding, and finish the work she helped start to ensure all buildings in Irvine are emissions-free.
  • Jing Sun for Irvine City Council District 3: Sun is a local realtor recently appointed to chair the city’s Community Services Commission who is running to make Irvine a climate leader by ensuring new buildings don’t rely on fossil fuels and building greener infrastructure.
  • Jeff Starke for Irvine City Council District 2: Starke is a small business owner and PTA dad who will push to move new housing off of fossil fuels, and denser housing near better transit to reduce the need of cars.
  • Melvin Willis for Richmond City Council District 1: Willis grew up in Richmond and worked as a Community Organizer with Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, where he defended the rights of renters and homeowners. Now on City Council, he’s been instrumental in passing rent control, increasing the minimum wage, phasing off coal, and leveraging IRA funds to retire a section of gas infrastructure that contributes to greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Sue Wilson for Richmond City Council District 5: Wilson has spent her career organizing in the labor movement and in electoral campaigns to help build the progressive city council she’s now hoping to join! She will fight for measures to remediate pollution, build the clean energy industry with union jobs, and is already helping organize Richmond’s historic Make Polluters Pay ballot initiative this fall. 
  • Claudia Jimenez for Richmond City Council District 6: Chevron’s refinery in Richmond is the second largest emitter of GHG in CA, and  recently had a major spill in San Francisco Bay in 2021 and cause air quality concerns when the facility flared earlier his year. Jimenez has been a voice in office for a growing local movement for a full transition off fossil fuels, the operation’s retirement, and reparative investments in local BIPOC communities most harmed by this spill and the refinery’s legacy – which is why we’re backing her re-election this fall!
  • Ysabel Jurado for LA City Council District 14: As a tenants rights attorney, Jurado has stood up to business interests to prevent tenant evictions. She has centered her campaign around ensuring the climate is in every part of LA’s future legislation and will work to require all new buildings be developed carbon-free, expand green spaces, electrify the city’s fleet, and move the city’s energy to renewables.
  • Edward Wright for BART Board District 9: Wright is a community organizer who has worked for several local legislators’ offices and advises on transit strategy and communications. He knows BART itself, one of the country’s largest public transit systems, is a climate strategy – massively reducing the emissions footprint of millions of riders. He’s focused on modernizing BART’s funding model, expanding access to fare-free transit and improving coordination with city services.
  • Terra Lawson-Remer for San Diego Board of Supervisors District 3: Lawson-Remer is an attorney, grassroots organizer, and university educator who, since being elected to office, voted for the county to take bold action to move to 100% renewable energy by 2035. It’s imperative we help keep her in office in a swing district to see through the city’s efforts to move to clean energy.
  • Jovanka Beckles for Senate District 7: Beckles is a longtime East Bay organizer who has served on the Richmond City Council and currently on the AC Transit Board, where she has helped fight for critical climate justice initiatives. She’s running to join the state legislature to advocate for serious, historic investments in Green New Deal infrastructure, clean energy union jobs funded by a strong corporate pollution tax alongside tough environmental regulations against in-state fossil fuel extraction. 
  • Jackie Fielder for San Francisco Board of Supervisors District 9: Fielder is an organizer who rallied at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline and co-founded the San Francisco Public Bank Coalition which helped pass the first-in-the-nation law allowing public banks in California. She’ll push for San Francisco to create a green bank, build equitable carbon-free housing, increase public transition and move forward the goals of the City’s Climate Plan.
  • Sade Elhawary for Assembly District 57: Elhawary is a youth mentor, college counselor, and high school history teacher who recently served as the Youth Engagement Campaign Manager on Karen Bass’s successful campaign to become L.A.’s first female mayor. She’ll fight to phase out oil drilling and get Big Oil to foot the bill for remediation, expand access in environmental justice communities to renewable energy, and fight to hold polluters accountable to provide resources for critical infrastructure for disadvantaged communities.
    
• Colorado
  • Steven Arauza for Garfield County District 3: Arauza has dedicated 11 years to public service proudly serving as the eyes and ears of the public in the oilfield alongside industry workers where he focused on enforcing environmental regulations, investigating public complaints, and orphan well plugging. He’s running to represent his county to transition off oil and gas production in residential areas, lead on advancing renewable energy projects, and provide just transitions for oilfield workers.
  • Miles Lucero for Pueblo County Commissioner District 1: Lucero was born and raised in Pueblo where he’s worked in the freight rail industry and volunteered as a varsity tennis team coach! He’s running to ensure the county implements water conservation measures, limits air polluting businesses like coal burning power plants, and continues to support clean energy.
    
• Florida:
  • Dot Inman-Johnson for Tallahassee City Commission District 2: Inman-Johnson was formerly elected as the first Black woman on Tallahassee’s City Commission where she voted against a proposed coal plant and fought for climate and environmental justice action in the city. She’s running to regain a seat to restore protections for the environment and community health in the city.
  • Sarah Henry for House District 38: Henry is a nonprofit professional whose running to flip a Republican district and act on on climate by ending the ban on the usage of “climate change” in state energy policy, pass a state climate action plan, protect green spaces like the Little Wekiva River, and protect reproductive rights.
  • David Arreola for House District 22: As Gainesville’s youngest ever Commissioner, Arreola led on environmental action by passing a zero waste ordinance, chairing the environmental justice committee, and passing energy efficiency requirements for new rental units. He’s running for state legislature to update Florida’s environmental and climate policy like the state’s highest-in-the-nation property insurance rates which need to include the risk evaluation of rising sea levels and the increased danger of storm surges.
  • Nate Douglas for House for House District 37: Douglas is an environmental advocate and substitute teacher who was first elected to public office in 2020 as a Soil and Water Conservation District supervisor. If elected, he’ll push for the expansion of public transit and propose legislation to set an aggressive carbon emissions target in Florida that could pave the way for green union jobs.
    
• Georgia: 
  • Farooq Mughal for House District 105: Mughal is an incumbent legislator who helped organize the state’s first Asian American Legislative Day and has championed green technology, good paying renewable energy jobs, and action on climate change in office.
  • Jasmine Clark for House District 108: Dr. Clark is a microbiology professor at Emory University who ties her scientific background to her activism as the former Director for the state’s March for Science. As an incumbent legislator, she has worked to tackle coal ash pollution, expand solar, and support state climate action.
  • Laura Murvartian for House District 48: Murvartian is the founder of a community library that’s given away nearly 60,000 books to Latino children and a nonprofit that supports Latino professional creatives. She’s running to support policies that reduce plastic use, protect GA’s waterways, and incentivize electric vehicles. 
  • Michelle Kang for House District 99: Kang has held countless roles that uplifted Asian American voices and government participation in Georgia. She’s worked to influence public policy through local government roles, organized cultural events like a local AAPI Heritage Month Celebration, and organized the Asian American community to help elect both of the state’s Democratic Senators in 2020. She’s running with a platform that supports green infrastructure, environmental justice, climate education, and renewable energy workforce development.
  • Susie Greenberg for House District 53: Greenberg has backed her community in countless ways – as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for foster children, a mentor for legal refugees, a volunteer college counselor for Sandy Springs Education Force, and an activist with Moms Demand Action. Some of her top priorities if elected are to increase her district’s climate resilience for extreme weather events by investing in local infrastructure.
    
• Hawaii: 
  • Kim Coco Iwamoto for House District 25: Iwomoto is a community organizer and former Board of Education Commissioner who has advocated for a Green New Deal in Hawaii, particularly in response to the state’s recent devastating fires that resulted from an underprepared grid and escalating climate conditions. In her last run for office she lost by only 150 votes- and we’re helping her finally get in office to finish the job!
    
• Maine
  • Wes Pelletier for Portland City Council District 2: Pelletier is a community organizer who helped found the Trelawny Tenants Union to help tenants across the city safely report Rent Control violations, has helped elect progressive candidates across the state, and is active in the city’s DSA. He’s running to fight coal storage in the city, push for emissions-free buildings, make Portland more pedestrian and transit friendly, and work to make the city more liveable for tenants.
    
• Massachusetts:
  • Kathy Fox Alfano for State Representative 3rd Barnstable District: Fox Alfano has lived in Cape Cod for over 20 years where she’s served her community in local government roles and contributing to community theater. She is running to protect the Cape through immediate action on climate.
    
• Michigan: By winning slim majorities in both state legislative chambers, MI Democrats were able to pass a landmark climate bill, the Michigan Clean Energy & Jobs Act, putting the state on a path to 100% renewable energy by 2040 while investing in environmental justice, energy efficiency, unionized labor, and more. Not only do we protect this historic win by keeping (and expanding!) seats, these candidates help drive turnout in a critical purple state for the presidential election:
  • Layla Taha for House for District 25: Taha is a community organizer who lead the fight to pass Proposal 3 and enshrine abortion rights in Michigan’s Constitution, and works as a Program Director for Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib. She’ll prioritize passing polluter pay laws, investing in water infrastructure to replace all lead service lines, and shutting down fracked gas pipeline Line 5.
  • Denise Mentzer for House District 61: An incumbent state legislator and former city commissioner, Mentzer helped pass Michigan’s landmark clean energy legislation and is working with the state Sierra Club to regulate microplastics and continue to support green energy!
  • Janise O’Neil Robinson for House District 28: Robinson is a special education teacher who has first-hand experience with social services like the Second Injury Fund. As a teacher, she believes in science and will fight for policies that protect waterways, fight against climate change, create good-paying union jobs, and ensure workers are not left behind. 
  • Kyle Wright for House District 29: Wright is a local school board member who has spent his life in Talyor giving back to his community. If elected, he’ll fight to hold polluters accountable through stronger polluter pay laws, advocate for upskilling workers for green jobs, expand access to renewable energy so residents can benefit from the clean energy transition, and fight for transparency in utility rates.
  • Michelle Levine Woodman for House District 62: Woodman is a middle school choir teacher who, if elected, will lead on key climate and environmental justice initiatives by advocating for the development of green infrastructure, promoting climate education in schools and addressing the disproportionate impact of environmental hazards by enforcing stricter regulations on polluting industries.
  • Betsy Coffia for House District 103: Since flipping the seat from a Republican, longtime organizer Coffia has sponsored the Clean Energy Future bills which make Michigan a national leader in climate action, voted to eliminate regulations that allow polluters to “review” environmental rules, and voted to pave the way for large scale wind and solar energy projects.
  • Jaime Churches for House District 27: After spending 10 years as a 5th grade teacher and being elected her union’s vice president, Churches was elected to the state house where she lent a critical vote to the state’s recent climate wins – and will continue to advocate for legislation that makes polluters pay if reelected!
  • Jennifer Conlin for House District 48: Conlin led an impressive decades-long career in journalism before being elected to the state house. She helped pass Michigan’s latest climate bill – and wants to act to address PFAS contamination to protect her constituents’ health. 
  • Reggie Miller House District 31: Miller is an incumbent state representative who has served in local government and volunteered in her community for many years. She was a critical vote for the Clean Energy and Jobs Act, and if reelected, she wants to build on the state’s environmental wins by passing “polluter pay” legislation that will require those who pollute the environment to pay for their clean-ups.
  • Shadia Martini for House District 54: Martini is an architectural engineer whose national advocacy in support of refugees from her birth country of Syria helped pass national legislation that codified accountability against Syrian human rights abusers. If elected, she’ll push for the complete transition from fossil fuels into renewable energy, especially in housing, and fight so every citizen has access to clean water.
  • Matt Koleszar for House District 22: Koleszar is an incumbent legislator who successfully led the fight against a local landfill that was violating the state’s air quality standards and, if reelected, he wants to continue work on polluter pay laws that require those who harm the environment to pay the cost of the remediating damages.

• Minnesota: After finally gaining a Democratic trifecta in 2022, Minnesotate was able to pass a groundbreaking climate bill, which requires the state’s utility to provide 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040 and commits $2 billion to programs that tackle environmental justice and “forever chemicals.” If we want to protect these wins and ensure the funding that will help achieve them, we need to maintain a Democratic trifecta in the state and keep climate progressives in office during the primary. We’re supporting:
  • Jen Fox for House District 41B: Fox is a Hastings City Councillor and brewery owner who has fought for access to clean and reliable public transportation and will fight in the state legislature for climate policies that transition the state away from fossil fuels and incentivize good paying jobs.
  • Kari Rehrauer for House District 35B: As a science teacher with 20 years under her belt, Rehrauer was inspired to run for Coon City Council after the 2016 presidential election when she was dismayed by the anti-science, anti-environmental direction the country was taking. On city council, she helped pass bills that allowed commercial solar in the city and helped develop and pass the Coon Rapids Energy Plan to expand clean energy use. She’s running for the state legislature to continue the fight to decarbonize the state’s utility, transportation, housing, and much more.
  • Josiah Hill for House District 33B: Hill is a teacher who served as union president of the St. Croix Education Association, and is running for reelection to the state legislature to continue its work protecting the environment and advocating for clean energy.
  • Jess Hanson for House District 55A: Hanson is an progressive incumbent who has championed a “politics of care” in office, including through her support for critical climate and environmental justice bills.
  • María Isa Pérez-Vega for House District 65B: Pérez-Hedges is many things to her community: a director at a community jazz project where she empowers young people through music, an insulin organizer fighting for affordable health care, and an international recording artist. We’re working to keep her elected in the state legislature where she’s been a leader for climate and environmental justice.
  • Jeff Brand for House District 18A: Brand is a current state legislator who runs a small landscaping business and was a Saint Peter City Councilmember. He authored legislation to eliminate carbon in the transportation sector and co-authored the 100% renewable by 2040 legislation, and will continue to fight for climate efforts if reelected.
  • Mark Munger for House District 3B: Munger is the co-executive director of a Lutheran church and is running to help flip a state legislative seat so he can help preserve a future for his grandchildren. He’ll fight for reducing fossil fuel use in MN’s transportation system by expanding charging stations and continuing the state e-bike rebate program.
  • Matt Norris for House District 32B: Morris has been a climate champion in the state legislature where he was proud to vote for MN’s new clean energy law and was instrumental in passing a law that requires new highway projects contribute to emissions reductions. If reelected, he hopes to pass a bill he authored to address PFAS water contamination by eliminating PFAS from firefighting foam, and protect the state’s natural spaces.
  • Pete Radosevich for House District 11A: Radosevich is a small business owner and lawyer who is running to flip a state legislative seat and support a transition to a new energy policy where fossil fuels are the past and clean energy is the future!
  • Lucy Rehm for House District 48B: Lucy Rehm for House District 48B: Rehm is a former Chanhassen City Councillor who was inspired to run for the state legislature to fight for healthy living, families and the environment – and has been a champion for legislation for clean energy, walkable communities, the state e-bike rebate program, and protecting natural resources in office!
  • Lucia Wroblewski for House District 41A: Wroblewski is a current Afton City Councillor who is running for the state legislature to ensure Minnesotans have access to clean water by tackling PFAS contamination, and protects its public lands.
  • Brian Cohn for House District 57B: Cohn is a community volunteer who has raised his family in Northfield and is running for the State House to support the state’s transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy, particularly by supporting the conversion to electric vehicles 
  • Brad Tabke for House District 54A: Tabke is the former Mayor of Shakopee and a current state legislator who has led on ensuring the state’s transportation system is green, reliable, and resilient. He understands states have an outsized role now in protecting communities from polluters after the Supreme Court’s Chevron case limiting federal power – and wants to ensure Minnesota is a leader in ensuring environment protections.
  • Brian Raines for House District 34A: Raines works at the Carpenters Union, following in the footsteps of three generations of union leaders in his family, where he works to build and maintain wind towers, and has played an influential role in creating a training curriculum to train apprentices in wind and solar energy installations. He’s running to expand Minnesota’s Renewable Energy program and reduce Minnesota’s carbon footprint while providing good, union jobs.
  • Harley Droba for House District 3A: Droba is the Mayor of International Falls and is running for the State House to help take action for renewable energy, green infrastructure, and protecting clean water.
  • Sarah Kruger for House District 26A: Kruger is the Chief of Staff at Fair Vote MN, a pro-democracy nonprofit, who is running to ensure Minnesota takes action to reduce its carbon footprint through smart climate initiatives essential for both the environment and long-term economic growth.
    
• Nevada
  • Angie Taylor for Senate District 15: Taylor has served as a school board member and as a State Assemblymember where she’s co-sponsored and supported all environmental bills the legislature during her one term in office. She’s now running to join the Senate where she’ll fight to make sure Nevada applies for and uses federal climate funds, and takes strong action for clean energy.
    
• New Mexico
  • Gabrielle Begay for House District 39: Begay is a first grade teacher who was inspired to run by seeing how the state was failing to provide their students the resources they needed to thrive. They are committed to supporting Green New Deal policies as a vision for climate action and social equity.
    
• North Carolina
  • Beth Helfrich for House District 98: Helfrich is a teacher and school administrator of 20 years who is running to speed up NC’s clean energy transition, hit the targets outlined in the Governor’s executive order committing the state to the goals of the Paris Climate Accords, to advocate for conservation, and to fight for environmental justice on issues like outdated infrastructure and worker protections.
  • Lorenza Wilkins for House District 25: Wilkins is a nonprofit leader, community volunteer, and entrepreneur who is running to flip a swing district in North Carolina and act on climate by supporting electric vehicles, clean energy, and greener transit and transportation options.
  • Bryan Cohn for House District 32: Cohn is a city commissioner in Oxford who works in agriculture helping farmers keep their operations running. He’s running not only to act on the environment by preventing offshore oil drilling and promoting wind and solar – but also to support a state constitutional amendment to be approved by voters that will enshrine a woman’s right to choose into state law.
    
• Oregon
  • Candace Avalos for Portland City Council District 1: Avalos’ work has contributed to her East Portland community for years, as a student advisor at Portland State University and as the executive director of a local nonprofit that brings environmental investments to Portland’s neighborhoods. She’s running to ensure the Portland Clean Energy Fund prioritizes frontline communities and the city takes further action towards climate justice.
  • Mitch Green for Portland City Council District 4: Green is an Army veteran, energy economist, community college professor, and union member. If elected, he’ll ensure the city council does not take backroom deals with fossil fuel companies like Zenith Energy, and encourage the city to supercharge its  clean energy investments by taking advantage of federal funds from the Inflation Reduction Act.
  • Marnie Glickman for Portland City Council District 2: Marnie has been organizing in Portland for environmental and progressive action for years – and is running for Council to ensure the city continues to fund and equitably use the Portland Clean Energy Fund, advance the cleanup of the Portland Harbor Superfund Site, and fight against expanding fossil fuel infrastructure in the city.
  • Angelita Morillo for Portland City Council District 3: After working in City Hall, Morillo began a TikTok account to talk about the issues she heard Portlanders face every day – and now speaks to 34,000 people on it as an organizer and candidate! She wants to focus on improving the city’s transportation which contributes to almost half of its emissions by increasing service and reach, and making streets friendlier to bikes and pedestrians.
  • Meghan Moyer for Multnomah County Commission District 1: Moyer has spent 20 years advocating for improved childcare and mental health services at the National Parent Teacher Association and Disability Rights Oregon, and advocating for homecare workers as an organizer at SEIU Local 503. Her district includes most of the banks of the Willamette River in the county, which is why she’ll advocate for the upgrading of industrial activity along its banks to prevent polluting spills. 
  • Shannon Singleton for Multnomah County Commission District 2: Singleton is a social worker who has been the chief executive of several housing/homelessness nonprofits and most recently was the Interim Director of the City of Portland/Multnomah County Joint Office of Homeless Services. She’s running cause she sees a major opportunity before the county to reduce its reliance on vehicles by investing in pedestrian and transit friendly infrastructure, build green affordable housing, and act fast to limit the impacts of emissions and toxic materials on Black and brown communities.
  • ​​Anthony Broadman for Senate District 27: Broadman is an attorney for tribal governments who has served as a city councilor and Mayor Pro Tem of Bend where he helped implement a city climate plan, electrify city buildings, and funded the first cross town bike route. He’ll work to support state clean energy action that makes Central OR a renewable energy leader for the region.
    
• Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania is a battleground state in the elections, and in the fight to transition off fossil fuels. We’re supporting a new generation of progressive leaders who will stand up to the fossil fuel industry, fight for environmental justice, and invest in Green New Deal-style legislation like the Whole Home Repairs Act that provides good paying jobs while acting on climate. We’re backing:
  • Brad Chambers for House District 41: Chambers is a labor administrator running in a swing district who will prioritize renewable energy, promote environmental sustainability, and address the disproportionate impacts of climate change on marginalized communities.
  • Anna Thomas for House District 137: Thomas is running to flip a Republican held seat in one of the tightest races in PA! A current planning commissioner & former school board student rep, she knows that Pennsylvanians want clean air, safe drinking water, clean energy, and safeguards against toxic pollution.
  • Mandy Steele House District 33: Steele is a former Fox Chapel Borough Councilmember who founded an award winning non profit that restores natural wetlands to protect residents from the effects of increased rainfall. She has won fights in her town for more solar, the first ban in the state on a toxic chemical, and led 21 other PA towns to take formal action on toxic chemical bans.
  • Eleanor Breslin for House District 143: Breslin is a Township Supervisor in Tinicum and Senior Staff Attorney for the Clean Air Council who believes in the right to clean air and water and helped start an Earth Day program in her town’s local park system. If elected, she’ll work to force gas companies to close the wells they create when they start fracking after they leave the area and establish environmental protections for streams that feed into larger watersheds.
  • Fern Leard for House District 120: Leard became a nurse after her twins were diagnosed with a rare disease, and has spent nearly a decade working in pediatrics and elderly care – during which time she also advocated in Congress for expanding Medicaid coverage. Leard knows it’s our responsibility to ensure that we maintain a sustainable environment for our children, and will fight for climate action and remediation in office.
  • Megan Kocher for House District 119: Kocher grew up in the district she’s running to represent and is running to champion clean energy in Pennsylvania by increasing state subsidies for the renewable industry, creating a grant program for working class families to install solar panels, and working to cut electric bill costs for those in need.
  • Sara Agerton for House District 88: Agerton has spent the last 20 years providing for her community as a social worker during which she was elected to the Mechanicsburg Borough Council. She has led on protecting green space in her town, ​​connecting a rail trail through the borough for walkability, and passing the town’s first ever Climate Action Plan. She will support the Whole Homes Repair Act and fight for investments in infrastructure and good paying jobs that act on climate and environmental justice.
  • Anand Patel for House District 18: Patel is a small business owner who was the only Democrat elected to the Bensalem School Board. If elected, he’ll act to protect the Delaware River watershed, reduce PFAS chemicals in Pennsylvania’s water supply, and make sure every community receives the proper funding to ensure the right to clean water.
  • Brian Munroe for House District 144: Munroe is a current state representative who has worked with the Democratic House majority to advocate for climate action and recently won increasing funding for solar at schools. He will continue to ensure environmental policy means fair contracting and the usage of union labor when implementing green projects, and will work to ensure the state tackles PFAS contamination which threatens its drinking water.
  • Arvind Venkat for House District 35: Venkat is an ER doctor who has organized for local hospitals to address the opioid crisis, and provide better mental health services who we’re helping re-elect to continue to fight for a clean energy economy!
  • Paul Friel for House District 26: Friel is a local business owner of an environmental testing firm whose been a strong advocate in office for environmental and watershed protections, incentives for clean energy jobs to fuel the state’s transition off fossil fuels and to the future, and the removal of state subsidies for the fossil fuel industry.
  • Cristian Luna for House District 13: Luna serves domestic violence survivors as the Deputy Prothonotary in Chester County, and is running to stop the privatization of municipal water systems including saving the Chester Water Authority, and fight to take action for clean air, energy, and water.
  • Rayne Reitnauer for District 130: Reitnauer has worked as a veterinary technician and founded a preparatory program for young adults purusuing a career with animals. She’s running to ensure the state moves us away from its dependency on fossil fuels by supporting good paying jobs in the renewable energy industry.
    
• Rhode Island
  • Corey Jones for Providence School Board Region 1: A former substitute teacher, Jones currently serves as the Chief of Policy and Planning at the Department of Labor and Training. He’ll push to ensure polluters are zoned out of land near the city’s school system, advocate for a Providence Green New Deal, and ensure all buildings have a plan to be carbon neutral.
    
• Texas
  • Sylvia Campos for Corpus Christi City Council District 2: Campos grew up in Corpus and has spent her life committed to the preservation and cultivation of its environment, arts, and community. She’s been an officer with the League of Women Voters, helped lead environmental cleanups with AmeriCorps, and helped found a local art group. In office, she’s fought hard to end the constant fossil fuel expansion in Corpus that threatens her community’s health, water, and climate.
  • Jim Klein for Corpus Christi City Council At-Large: Klein is a Professor of History at Del Mar College and the Chair of the Coastal Bend Sierra Club group whose organized locally for climate action and the preservation of the Corpus Christi Bay, It’s critical we keep him in office to be a voice for public health, environmental protection, and accountability for the fossil fuel industry.
  • Eli McKay for Corpus Christi City Council District 1: McKay is a community organizer and business owner who is running to ensure Corpus Christi stops spending taxpayer dollars on desalination projects that are guzzling the majority of the city’s water leaving residents in drought restrictions. Instead, they’ll ensure that those companies, some of the wealthiest in the world, pay their fair share to the community to fund the city’s infrastructure, parks, and schools.
  • Mike Siegel for Austin City Council District 7: Siegel is longtime community organizer who has centered climate action in his platform in Austin which has suffered through multiple devastating freezes and heat waves in recent years. In a city that owns much of its own utilities, Siegel has laid out a bold plan to close the Fayette coal power plant which contributes 76% of Austin Energy’s emissions, ensure a just transition for its workers, use federal funds to hit the city’s clean energy goals, and locally incentivize building electrification and clean energy job creation through tools like a green bank.
  • Kristian Carranza for House District 118: Carranza is a campaign organizer who has worked on elections and campaigns across the country, and is running to represent her home district. She believes all Texans deserve to live in a healthy and safe environment, and knows marginalized communities bear the costs of climate change disproportionately. She’ll fight to hold polluters accountable, fund environmental enforcement agencies, and fight for San Antonio’s transition to public transit by supporting the development of the rail line to Austin. 
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• Virginia:
  • Kenya Gibson for Richmond City Council District 3: As a School Board Member, Gibson has fought hard to address environmental inequities facing the city’s students as a result of failing infrastructure that have caused poor air quality from failing HVAC systems, lead exposure, and landfill placement near schools. If elected, she wants to lead on climate and environment justice in Richmond by addressing the city’s methane leaks, protecting the James River from coal ash dumping, and investing in public infrastructure that make cities more liveable and less reliant on fossil fuels.
  • Willie Hilliard for Richmond City Council District 6: Hilliard is a local barber and community advocate who helped create the North Side Food Access Coalition, a community garden and farmers market after the city provided no solutions for food scarcity in the area. He’s running to ensure the city’s government represents its residents not wealthy business interests – and will advocate for the city’s climate plan, the RVA Green 2050, to become an ordinance and not just a resolution.
  • Rue Willis for Chesapeake School Board At-Large: Willis is a teacher-in-training who is running for school board to push for policies that ensure all new school buildings are off fossil fuels, that the school system moves towards an electric bus fleet, and that it provides technical education for union jobs in the clean energy industry. As Governor Youngkin continues to pass policies harming trans youth, Willis will also advocate against Youngkin’s anti-trans policy, and advocate for LGBTQ youth on campus.
    
• Washington
  • Melissa Demyan for House District 45 Position 2: As a labor organizer with the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers, Demyan has fought for better wages, benefits, and more good-paying jobs. She believes that WA can achieve a just clean energy transition that lifts up all residents by supporting union clean energy jobs in-state.
  • Pedro Torres Jr. for Franklin Public Utility District District 3: A local fitness instructor, Torres is running so his utility invests in renewable energy that supports affordable utility rates while ensuring environmental responsibility.
    
• Wisconsin
  • LuAnn Bird for House District 61: When Bird’s husband was paralyzed in a construction accident, she learned first-hand that a person in a wheelchair could not get into several of the Oshkosh Public Schools. She ran for and was elected to the school board, helped pass referendums, and worked tirelessly to make sure 100% of school facilities were accessible. She’s since taken on the NRA as Executive Director of the League of Women Voters of WI to pass gun control legislation. She’s a firm supporter of state action to tackle climate change and pollution, and will support clean energy and environmental protections!
  • Jodi Emerson for House District 91: Emerson is an incumbent legislator who has supported bills to prevent PFAS contamination in Wisconsin’s water, replace lead service lines, fund clean energy programs, teach climate change in school and invest in helping lower income homeowners make energy efficient improvements. She’s running to build a legislative majority that will actually support environmental and climate action. 
  • Alison Page for House District 30: Page is a nurse and lifelong healthcare administrator who is running to pass legislation that will protect Wisconsin’s water quality, environment, and public health.
  • Joe Sheehan for House District 26: Sheehan has built a career as an educator, principal, Director of Human Resources, and Superintendent for Sheboygan Area Schools where he fought for stronger investment in students and helped implement programs to prepare them for higher education and the workforce. He’s running on a strong environmental platform to protect Lake Michigan and tackle PFAS contamination.
  • Yee Len Xiong for House District 85: Xiong has been an advocate for his community as Executive Director of the Hmong American Center in Wasau and as a Marathon County Supervisor – and is now running for state legislature to fight for clean water and clean energy.