ENVIRONMENT ON THE BALLOT: RESOURCES

Educate Yourself and Act

• Check out Environment on the Ballot, listing ballot measures regarding the environment, environmental protection, and the use of natural resources

• Check out the League of Conservation Voters’ annual National Environmental Scorecard tracks the voting records of all members of Congress on critical environmental, climate, environmental justice, and democracy legislation

• Check out the Environmental Voter Project, identifying inactive environmentalists and transforming them into consistent voters to build the power of the environmental movement, based in Boston

• Check out the Charles River Watershed Association, working to protect, restore, and enhance the Charles River and its watershed using science, advocacy, and the law by developing science-based strategies to increase resilience, protect public health, and promote environmental equity as we face a changing climate, together

• Check out Slow Tools, promoting and funding the sustainable and local manufacture of tools

• Clean Vehicle and Energy Credits, IRS 

• What You Can Do to Fight Climate Change, the World Wildlife Fund

• The Other 2024 Races with Big Climate Stakes, NYT

• How to Address Two Environmental Crises at Once, The New Yorker

• Bill Nye says the main thing you can do about climate change isn’t recycling—it’s voting, CNBC

• What is Solar Geoengineering? How does it work, what are the risks, and why should we study it?, Union of Concerned Scientists 

• Order Smithsonian Trees of North America, by Panelist W. John Kress 

Earth's Deterioration

• Pollution of the potent warming gas methane soars and people are mostly to blame, AP News 

• Aridification of Colorado River Basin's Snowpack Regions Has Driven Water Losses Despite Ameliorating Effects of Vegetation, AGU

• Economics of the disintegration of the Greenland ice sheet, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science

Food Waste and Consumption

• A study of five states’ food waste bans found that most had no effect — except Massachusetts, The Washington Post

• More With Less: Nature-Inspired Advances, the World Wildlife Fund

• Greenhouse gas emission reduction opportunities for the Norwegian salmon farming sector - can they outweigh growth? Science Direct

• Transforming the Food System by Moving the Bottom, World Wildlife Fund

• We Need to Talk About Meat, United Nations Climate Change 

Conservation

• More on the Half-Earth Project

• Can Rights of Nature Laws Make a Difference? In Ecuador, They Already Are, Inside Climate News

• Vermont just set a new goal for conserving land: Here’s what’s next, Vermont Public

• COP15 Talks: Countries Sign onto 30x30, NYT

• Pathways to 30x30 bill, California, Administration of Gavin Newsom

Environmental Court Cases

• What it means for the Supreme Court to block enforcement of the EPA’s ‘good neighbor’ pollution rule, AP News

• What the Supreme Court’s Sackett v. EPA Ruling Means for Wetlands and Other Waterways, NRDC

• The Clean Water Justice Act, Potomac Riverkeeper Network

• Fossil Fuel Lawsuits are a Tax on Consumers, Pacific Research

Local Actions

• Vermont: H.126 (Act 59) An act relating to community resilience and biodiversity protection in VT

• Virginia, West Virginia: Potomac River Keeper Network

• Pittsburgh: Form Energy to begin manufacturing iron air batteries in Weirton to stabilize electrical grid, Pittsburgh NPR