Legislative Team

Relationships. Engagement. Policies.

The Legislative Team aims to impact legislation and policymaking to reduce greenhouse gases in our atmosphere to a level consistent with life thriving on our planet.

The team generally meets over Zoom every two weeks (weekly during the legislative session) on Thursdays at 10:00 a.m.

ECA-TC members, please fill out our chapter’s Legislative action form to be alerted for specific actions, especially during the session!

National ECA has an extremely helpful tool to look up your elected officials at the federal, state and local levels: https://secure.everyaction.com/p/HnnptzoQgEi-1IoCWaMmKQ2

To join or for more information, please contact twincities@eldersclimateaction.org.

Core activities:

Make contact and build relationships with policymakers in key legislative committees in a nonpartisan manner.
Select bills and policies to support (& oppose) through written and/or verbal testimony, contacting committee members and our own representatives, and showing up at committee hearings and lobby days.
Amplify messages and actions from ally organizations to broader ECA membership and personal networks.
Engage broader ECA membership in effective lobbying efforts.
Model and encourage care for future generations.

"But the truth is that we could win every other fight that we face and if we lose the climate fight, the other victories will be pyrrhic. I don't think even people who are worried about climate change quite understand the scale and speed with which we're now shifting the planet."

~ Bill McKibben, Environmentalist and Author

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