Our work
Clean air, clean water, wide open spaces and a stable climate: we’re working to protect it all. Find out more about what we’re working on, and how you can help.
About
Environment America is a national network of 30 state environmental groups. Our staff work together for clean air, clean water, clean energy, wildlife and open spaces, and a livable climate. Our members across the United States put grassroots support behind our research and advocacy.
We envision a greener America: one that protects more places where nature can thrive, and offers us and our children a greater opportunity to live healthier, more enriching lives. Through our research, public education, advocacy, litigation and action, we advance policies and practices that put our country and our world on a better path.
Our approach
Each of our campaigns shares a common approach, which includes:
- Putting the health of the environment front and center. We understand that a clean environment is not a mere by-product of our prosperity. Rather, a clean environment is the necessary precondition for a true and lasting prosperity.
- Winning hearts and minds. Our research and public education seek to build broad support for specific actions to protect the land, air, water and wildlife that sustain and enrich all of our lives.
- We take a strategic approach. Progress is made one step at a time. Compromise is often necessary to achieve concrete improvements in the quality of the environment and people’s lives.
Our approach delivers results, including growth in solar and wind power, cleaner air, reduced global warming pollution, and cuts in single-use plastics. We study which policies work, how they can be improved, and what it takes to build public support for them. And we’re open to new ideas that could work even better.
Working together
Throughout all of our work, we endeavor to unite people from across the political spectrum on behalf of a cleaner, greener country.
Our advocates build coalitions that include business owners, doctors and nurses, religious leaders, first-responders and community activists. Our organizers and canvassers engage members and activists in all 50 states. Our advocates in Washington, D.C., work with members of Congress from both parties.
Our staff
The Environment America team of researchers, advocates, attorneys and organizers takes pride in our strategic thinking, efficient planning and passionate persistence. Meet the team.
Our network
Environment America is part of The Public Interest Network, which operates and supports organizations committed to a shared vision of a better world and a strategic approach to social change.
Our affiliates
Join us
We invite every American to join us.
On each campaign, our staff chart a path to victory, maintain a steady hand on the tiller, and navigate the inevitable rocky shoals. The action and support of our members provide the wind at our backs that carries us forward. Without people like you, we can’t win. With people like you, we can’t lose.
Join us, and together, step by step, we’ll make the world we share a cleaner, greener, healthier one.
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Environment America Action Fund
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Environment America, Inc. is a 501(c)(4) organization. EIN 20-5355252.