Current Priorities In Washington, D.C.

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Protecting the environment with better laws

Legislative Priorities

The staff in our federal advocacy office in Washington, D.C. are taking on powerful interests to win strong policies to improve our environment. Read some of our top priorities.

Protecting Strong State Policy

Protecting the power of the states to pass and enforce strong state laws, above and beyond the federal government’s minimum standard. Read more.

Federal Environmental Policy in brief

Together, the state groups that make up Environment America have built on progress at the state and local level—from laws that promote solar and wind power, to cuts in the pollution that causes global warming, to new protections for millions of acres of wilderness and open space—to build support for federal legislation. Our members in 50 states give us the resources we need to advocate solutions in our nation's capitol.

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Urge Your Senators to Support Strong Global Warming Legislation

On November 5, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passed the Clean Energy Jobs and America Power Act (S. 1733).

The bill is one big step to a clean energy future. And it’s an improvement on the House bill that passed with our support in June. It includes deeper cuts in global warming pollution and no strings to tie the EPA’s hand in cleaning up old, dirty power plants and other big carbon polluters.

But Big Oil, Dirty Coal, and other polluters are working tirelessly to delay the transition to clean energy. Send an email to your Senators now urging them to support a strong bill to stop the worst effects of global warming and move America to clean energy, which will make America more energy independent and repower our economy with millions of green jobs that can't be shipped overseas.

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Recent actions and results

Now in its twelfth year, the annual Congressional Scorecard has been one of the many citizenship tools used by Environment America to preserve the environment, advocate in the public interest, and revitalize participation in our democratic process. Click here to find out how your elected officials voted on key environmental issues.