Climate Voter Guide 2020

Here are some resources every climate-focused voter needs ahead of the November 3 elections:

Get to Know Your Candidates:

• 20 Questions to Ask Your Candidate About the Environment: Check out our blog post with these questions to help you learn more about where your candidates stand. 

• LCV Scorecard: Learn more about your representatives’ environmental records.

• Sierra Club Endorsements: Find out which candidates this environmental group has endorsed.

• NRDC Endorsements: Find out which candidates are endorsed by the National Resources Defense Council

• LCV Endorsements: Check out the candidates that received the League of Conservation Voters’ endorsement.

Plan Your Vote:

• Vote.org: Use this resource to find your polling place, find early voting locations, find a ballot dropbox, find out what’s on your ballot, check your registration status, register to vote, request a mail-in ballot, get election reminders, find registration deadlines, find vote by mail rules and deadlines, and more!

• Become a poll worker: CleanChoice Energy has partnered with Power The Polls to help staff polling places across the country. Sign up to be a poll worker!

Further Reading:

• Why voting rights are climate rights: Two experts talk GOTV (Grist)

• Is climate change a 'motivator' issue in the 2020 Senate elections? (Yale Climate Communications)

• 2020 Is the Most Important Election Year For The Environment (Earth Day Network)

• Saving Earth One Vote at a Time (Be The Change podcast)

• Interview of the Week, Nathaniel Stinnett CEO, Environmental Voter Project (Our Daily Planet)

• Trump vs. Biden on the issues: Climate change and the environment (ABC News)

• Climate crisis or ‘hoax’: Where Biden and Trump stand on environmental policy (Los Angeles Times)