Location: Virginia

Campaign wins don’t happen without broad-based, community organizing on the ground in the communities most impacted by the pipeline. Effective and successful climate campaigns require a combination of multiple strategies and actions, garnering as much organized influence on the local, state, national, and even international level. Welcome and support new leaders who’ve never been involved and respect them, even when their political and cultural views are different than your own. There is great need for building community and mutual support. A powerful key to victory was the collection and widespread dissemination of valid, reliable, and culturally responsive and competent research and use it wisely in the campaign alongside the power of committed and able people. This report documents organizing lessons learned from the experience of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline in North Carolina.

This post includes climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from recent public polls – including new polling on voters’ reactions to arguments from the two parties on climate change; the impact of climate change and the environment on battleground voters’ decisions in the upcoming midterms; an experiment in communicating about human-caused climate change using a “heat-trapping blanket” metaphor; Americans’ personal experiences with climate change; and the widening generational gap in Republicans’ environmental attitudes.