State environmental policy groups provide leadership and accountability for environmental issues like clean water, clean air, and healthy communities.
They play instrumental roles in crafting local solutions to regional problems, mobilize people power for policy advocacy, and have key working relationships with federal, state, and local elected officials.
These groups build power for the environment by:
- advocating for healthy state laws and policies
- mobilizing citizens to participate in government processes
- ensuring critical state and federal laws like the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts are enforced.
State environmental policy groups are watchdogs on the front lines of climate change. They hold the line on policy rollbacks, and push for progress on legal, regulatory, and administrative protections to long-standing and emerging environmental challenges.