Climate Voter Guide 2024

Voting season is officially upon us! On November 5, thousands of local, state, and federal elections will occur across the country. These elections will have massive implications for the environment, climate change, and clean energy. 

To help every climate-focused voter prepare ahead of Election Day, we’ve compiled all of the resources you need to get to know your candidates, plan your vote, do your part to help get out the vote, and learn more about the issues at stake:

Get to Know Your Candidates:

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

• LCV Scorecard: See how the League of Conservation Voters rates your candidates based on their voting record for environmental legislation.

• LCV Endorsements: Check out the candidates that received endorsements from the League of Conservation Voters this year.

• Sierra Club Endorsements: Find out which Congressional candidates this environmental group has endorsed for the 2024 elections.

• NRDC Endorsements: See which candidates are endorsed by the National Resources Defense Council this year.

• GiveGreen Candidate Directory: Browse this database to find candidates across the country who support the environment.

Plan Your Vote:

• Vote.org: Use this resource to register to vote, check your registration status, request an absentee ballot, see what’s on your ballot, get election reminders, and more.

• Ballotpedia: Find out which candidates and ballot measures will be on your ballot this year, read information about each candidate such as their prior offices and endorsements, learn more about any ballot measures that will be on your ballot, and more.

• Your guide to voting after a disaster: For anyone who has been affected by Hurricane Helene, check out this guide to help you plan your vote to ensure you’re able to cast your ballot on time.

Get Out the Vote:

• Environmental Voter Project: Get involved with EVP to GOTV with low-propensity environmental voters.

• Climate Changemakers: Check out “your home base to help elect climate champions up and down the ballot.”

• Mobilize: Browse through this massive database to find nearby (or virtual) events and volunteering opportunities.

• Climate Voters Phone Banks: Make phone calls to voters in this phone banking event hosted by the DNC every Tuesday and Thursday evening.

• Become a poll worker: Sign up to become a poll worker at your local polling place on November 5.

Learn More About the Issues:

• Harris vs. Trump on climate change: Where they stand on the issue (The Washington Post)

• Here's where the 2024 presidential candidates stand on climate change (ABC)

• What would a Harris presidency mean for the climate? (Grist)

• What Project 2025 would do to climate policy in the US (Grist)

• These Supreme Court decisions just made it harder to solve climate change (Grist)

• Most Americans don’t know the country’s biggest climate law helps the climate (Grist)

• ‘Basic peer pressure’: The plan to turn out millions of pro-climate voters in the 2024 U.S. election (Yale Climate Connections)

• Understanding pro-climate voters in the United States (Yale Program on Climate Change Communication)

• Kamala Harris is making climate action patriotic. It just might work. (Grist)