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Contact: environment [at] lwvpt.org

The National League of Women Voters’ (LWVUS) Position Statement on Climate Change Policy

The League believes that climate change is a serious threat facing our nation and our planet.

State and local Leagues, and individual League members, have a critical role to play in helping limit future climate change and protect the planet.

The League is calling for prompt action to cut this country’s GHG emissions, to invest in a clean energy economy, and to help the world’s poorest countries tackle the challenges of climate change.

Environment Roundtable Goals for 2023-2024

• Raise public awareness of the causes and impacts of climate change
• Build citizen support for clean energy use and energy conservation, with “clean energy” defined as “a zero emissions source that does not pollute the atmosphere when used, as well as energy saved by energy efficiency measures”
• Monitor legislation, regulations, and local initiatives that address energy use, energy conservation, and protection from pollution of air, water, and land.

Environment Roundtable Activities

In addition to our own research and discussion, the ERT invites speakers to address

• climate change, its causes and consequences,
• the urgent need to transition to clean energy and the obstacles to that transition,
• and the actions we are taking, and must take, to meet this challenge.

ERT programs are recorded and posted to the LWVPT YouTube channel. 

We informally partner with other nonpartisan environmental groups to strengthen advocacy for a safe and healthy environment. We may attend civic and governmental meetings and lobby lawmakers to learn how decisions are made and to speak for the League’s policies on the environment and climate change. We may take field trips to see solutions in action.

Environment Roundtable Speakers
(Click the link above for session descriptions, resources, and links to recorded sessions.)

2022-2024

• Matt Mayers, Volunteer with Citizens Climate Lobby NC Chapter
• John Zino, Associate Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering, N.C. State University
• Lisa Sorg, Environmental and Investigative Reporter for NC Newsline
• Rod Adams, Former US Nuclear Submarine Engineer
• Dr. Shaleen Miller, Sustainability Director for the City of Winston-Salem/Environment and Sustainability Program at UNCG
• Dr. Shamika “Shree” Dorestant, Greensboro’s first Chief Sustainability Officer 
• Marion Gamble, Greensboro chapter member, Beyond Plastics  
• Gary Kenton, LWVPT Board Member
• Margaret Rowlett, Guilford Clean Power Now Coalition
• Ashley Robinson, Greensboro's Waste Management Educator
• Kirsten Minor, Health Manager, CleanAIRENC
• Justin Catanoso, professor of journalism at Wake Forest University and reporter for Mongabay, LWVPT Lunch with the League

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