Our Challenges

Devastation caused by the climate crisis is already underway: Wildfires in California. Hurricanes and rising seas on our coasts. Flooded farms and homes in the Midwest. Blackouts in Texas. And it’s getting worse.

We’re talking with Democrats across the country, to understand the environmental issues of local communities—and how federal policy can best address them. We have less than nine years before devastating damage to our planet, country and people is inevitable and irreversible. And reversing the damage of the previous administration will not be quick nor easy.

The people we speak with know the house is on fire. And that it’s up to Democrats to act.

Our Work

Climate change is not coming: It is here. Now. And the Council is helping to spur the needed urgency in Washington and around the country for action. Because we don’t have a minute to waste. 

President Biden ran as a climate champion. And from Day 1, he has launched a bold climate agenda. But he can’t do it alone. He needs Congress to act, and act boldly, and he needs support and engagement by the climate and environmental justice communities and voters

This is why we’re actively building out our organization across the country, working with and organizing activists across the country around environmental issues and how federal policy can best address them.

We are also striving to increase voter participation among climate and environment voters, and those impacted by these issues.

And we are advocating for an end to fossil fuel subsidies by our federal government, and for the urgent passage of federal legislation as well as executive actions to address the crisis.

Our Commitment to Inclusion and Diversity

For too long, solutions to the urgent environmental and climate issues facing us have left out the people most impacted by them. The Council is promoting inclusion, a just transition, and environmental justice in its policy-making framework.  

Past and Current Campaigns and Advocacy

• Supporting a National Climate Emergency Declaration

• Fighting Climate Misinformation

• Supporting the Build Back Better Agenda

• Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies

• Supporting the End Polluter Welfare Act

• Shutting Down Enbridge’s Line 5

• Supporting a 2020 Presidential Primary Climate Debate