THE PROBLEM
How do we get more candidates to prioritize environmental issues?
There are millions of ‘non-voting environmentalists’ across the United States: people who care about the environment but don’t turn out to the polls. If environmentalists don’t vote, their values don’t take priority among political candidates and elected officials alike. Heading into 2018 midterm elections, this tension took center stage in races such as Georgia’s Public Service Commission – a small, largely unknown state decision-making body with an outsized influence on Atlanta’s ability to meet its recent commitment to 100% clean energy.