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Christopher Schuler, christopher.schuler@sierraclub.org
Washington, DC — Today, six major environmental, climate, clean energy, and conservation groups, including the Sierra Club, Clean Energy for America, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Action, League of Conservation Voters (LCV), Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Action Fund, and The Wilderness Society Action Fund, announced their respective member mobilization efforts to recruit volunteers to reach voters across the country to get out the vote in the final weeks of the 2024 political cycle and help elect pro-environment candidates up and down the ballot including Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz.
These mobilization efforts will take place nationally online and in-person in at least 17 states, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin, and include each organization recruiting its members for door-to-door canvassing, texting, letter-writing, phone banking and other tactics. Through these efforts, members will communicate the importance of voting for candidates who support policies to protect our communities and future generations, our rights to clean air, water, and public lands, and continue the historic progress of the Biden-Harris administration’s affordable clean energy plan to save consumers money and create good-paying clean energy jobs while combating the climate crisis.
Participating groups issued the following joint statement:
“The stakes for our environment and climate have never been higher and the contrast could not be clearer this election. Our members across the country are all-in to elect climate champions up and down the ballot who will protect communities, clean air and water, and public lands, hold Big Polluters accountable, and build on the Biden-Harris administration’s historic progress towards a clean energy future with lower energy costs for families and good-paying clean energy jobs, while combating the climate crisis and environmental injustice.”
Recent member mobilization events include Sunday’s get-out-the-vote climate canvass featuring EDF Action Executive Director Fred Krupp, who is also president of Environmental Defense Fund, and musician and activist Adam Met in Sterling Heights, Michigan; Monday’s get-out-the-vote climate canvass featuring Bill Nye in Raleigh, North Carolina; and a Climate Voters for Harris conversation on Tuesday at the University of Michigan with Lt. Governor Gil Gilchrist and actor and activist Jane Fonda.
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About the Sierra Club
The Sierra Club is America’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, with millions of members and supporters. In addition to protecting every person's right to get outdoors and access the healing power of nature, the Sierra Club works to promote clean energy, safeguard the health of our communities, protect wildlife, and preserve our remaining wild places through grassroots activism, public education, lobbying, and legal action. For more information, visit www.sierraclub.org.