Save Your Environment

Advocate for Your Environment

When you stand up for the environment, you’re protecting more than beautiful beaches or a great hiking trail — you’re creating healthy change right in your community. Protecting the environment can actually lower power bills, improve the air you breathe, and safeguard your home.

Contact your elected officials, sign a petition, or demand accountability from corporate polluters!

Action Alerts

Here are the latest ways you can take action to protect the environment.

Provide More Aid to WNC

Take action! S.B. 382 does not prioritize Western NC. Tell your legislators to reject this political stunt and provide more aid to WNC!

Common Sense Energy Efficiency

Reasonable energy efficiency codes for buildings saves us money, but there’s a chance these requirements could be thrown out.

Duke Energy Must Follow the Law

Law requires Duke Energy to cut their carbon emissions 70% by 2030, and reach net-zero by 2050, but Duke is trying to wiggle out of the law.

Oppose More Dark Money in Politics

To have a healthy environment, we need a reflective and healthy democracy. Take action to oppose more dark money in NC politics.

Oppose Destroying More Trees in NC

Oppose destroying more trees in NC. “Protecting North Carolina’s beauty should be a top priority,” said Governor Roy Cooper.

Urge NCUC To Oppose Dirty Gas in Roxboro

Take action! Join us and urge the North Carolina Utility Commission (NCUC) to oppose new dirty gas in Roxboro, North Carolina.

We Say “No” To More Gas

Despite state mandate to reduce carbon emissions, Duke Energy and Dominion Energy are digging their heels into fossil fuels.

Tell Your Legislator to Uphold Cooper’s Veto of HB 600

“This bill is a hodgepodge of bad provisions that will result in dirtier water, discriminatory permitting and threats to NC’s environment.”

Tell Your Legislator: These Voting Bills Are Threats to Our Democracy

To have a safe and clean environment, we need a fair and healthy democracy. SB749 defies the will of voters and puts our democracy in jeopardy.

Speak Up For More Fuel Efficient Vehicles!

Gas powered vehicles are beginning to decline, so we need to make sure new cars hitting the road are the most efficient they can possibly be.

Tell Your Legislator to Protect North Carolinians’ Voting Rights

To have a safe and clean environment, we need a fair and healthy democracy. SB749 defies the will of voters and puts our democracy in jeopardy.

Tell Your Legislator to Protect North Carolina’s Most Important Resource

Half of U.S. deaths related to air pollution are linked to out-of-state emissions. This plan helps protect downwind states from pollution.

Tell Senator Tillis to Oppose the Repeal of the Good Neighbor Plan

Half of U.S. deaths related to air pollution are linked to out-of-state emissions. This plan helps protect downwind states from pollution.

Tell your legislator to support Governor Cooper’s veto of House Bill 488

During the hottest June on record, the NC General Assembly introduced legislation that could block efforts to update NC’s energy efficiency.

Tell your legislator to support Governor Cooper’s veto of the Farm Act

The 2023 Farm Act, passed in 2023, threatens mass destruction for half of our wetlands–millions of acres currently protected. Get involved.

Tell Governor Cooper: Protect Our Clean Water

Legislation to strip state protections away from much our wetlands is headed to the governor’s office now. It must be stopped.

Tell Lawmakers: Protect the Right to Vote

We must protect the right to vote! Urge lawmakers to oppose the unjust and racist strategy to restrict voting in North Carolina.

Tell Congress: No Pipeline in Deal!

We must pass the Inflation Reduction Act to make it cleaner and cheaper to power our homes and cars!

Urge Congress: It’s Time to Pass a Climate Bill!

We must pass the Inflation Reduction Act to make it cleaner and cheaper to power our homes and cars!

It’s Time for Polluters to Pay

Urge your state legislators to pass the bipartisan PFAS Polluter Liability bill!

Tell Senators: Guarantee Everyone’s Freedom to Vote

Urge them to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Act!

Urge Gov. Cooper to Join Climate Coalition!

11 neighboring states are cutting emissions and power bills while creating jobs. Let’s join them!

Thank Biden for Acting on Climate!

He marshaled his entire administration to tackle this urgent crisis. Thank him!

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Know The Score

Know How Your Elected Officials Scored

Many elected officials say they support the environment, but they don’t always act accordingly. We want you to know how they vote on critical environmental issues before you cast your vote at the ballot box.

Ask Candidates Where They Stand!

During every election, you should find out where your candidates stand on issues affecting our environment.

Attend candidate forums, ask questions, visit their campaign websites. Get them on the record for their positions on clean air, safe water, land conservation, holding polluters accountable, and better transit options. Then, hold them accountable.

Our Conservation Political Action Committee (CPAC) makes political endorsements for pro-environmental candidates in legislative and statewide races, and raises money to help elect these candidates. While we know that all elections – local to federal – are critical, our focus remains on the state legislature and other statewide offices.

Visit the Conservation PAC website to find out who we are endorsing.

Vote

Vote to Share Your Voice

Whether it’s your schools, the park you walk your dogs in, the roads you drive on, the air you breathe, or our economy — our elected officials are making decisions that directly impact our daily lives.

What happens when you don’t vote? People who don’t share your values are elected to office. Legislators can argue that they are fulfilling the mandate of their constituents.

If we turn out and elect candidates who share our environmental values and priorities, then we can turn the tide against elected officials who vote against protections for our environment and communities.

Our goal: Let’s elect a General Assembly that truly reflects the environmental values shared by North Carolinians across the state.

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