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The Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) Action Fund is an environmentalist lobbying group organization whose mission is to fight global warming on a policy level, through opposition to fossil fuels in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. It is the advocacy arm of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, a 501(c)(3).
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The Chesapeake Climate Action Network, is the Capital Area chapter of U.S. Climate Action Network and Climate Action Network-International (CAN-I). It was founded in July 2002 with a seed grant from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
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The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is an Annapolis, Maryland-based environmentalist group with a focus on the Chesapeake Bay. It issues a report card on the Chesapeake Bay’s health, claiming that it has moved from 27 out of 100 in 1998 to 32 out of 100 in 2023.
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Climate Defiance is a climate activist group founded in March 2023 focused on young adults. The group engages in direct disruption such as strikes, blockades, and mass occupations to gain media and public attention. In the initial three months since its creation, Climate Defiance has organized several disruptive protests, all
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Greenbelt Climate Action Network, a project of Chesapeake Education Arts and Research Society (CHEARS), is an environmentalist advocacy group.
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For funding information, see U.S. Climate Action Network Climate Action Network-International (CAN-I) is the governing organization that unifies each Climate Action Network (CAN) region and chapter. The organization was founded shortly after the formation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). While its original intent was to serve
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DC Jobs with Justice (DCJWJ) is the Washington, D.C. chapter of Jobs with Justice, a national coalition of worker centers and advocacy groups that promotes labor union policy priorities and perspectives across the country.
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Green New Deal Virginia is a left-of-center to left-wing coalition in Virginia that seeks to enact radical environmentalist legislation based on the Green New Deal in that state. The coalition consists of various left-of-center and left-wing groups who seek to expand the role of government in the state’s economy.
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Get Money Out Maryland (GMOM) is a left-of-center policy advocacy organization that works to restrict campaign-related speech and financial contributions. Though this organization also targets issue areas such as voter access, statehood for the District of Columbia, and inheritance-tax reduction, it is mainly focused on working to overturn the U.S.
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Now or Never is a climate change activism group formed to “shut down” the July 28, 2022, bipartisan Congressional Baseball Game for Charity. 1 It aimed to force Democrats to pass left-of-center environmentalist-aligned federal climate laws
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LeftNet is a digital activism organization that produces left-of-center petitions and letters. The organization circulates petitions for signatures with assistance from the Action Network, an online tool created by Brian Young, former digital director for U.S. Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry during his time as a U.S.
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PennEnvironment is a left-of-center environmentalist organization that advocates for the use of environmentalist energy sources, conservationist policy, and government regulation to combat climate change. The organization has also advocated against natural gas exploration using hydraulic fracturing in Pennsylvania. PennEnvironment is the Pennsylvania state affiliate of Environment America, a network
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Joy Loving is a left-of-center, Virginia-based activist who works with Climate Action Alliance of the Valley (CAAV), an environmentalist organization. Loving is a campaigner for the adoption of solar electric power, working with both local-level organizers and large national organizations including the Sierra Club and Solar United Neighbors (SUN).
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The United Workers Association (UWA) is a labor-union-aligned worker center and environmentalist pressure group based in Baltimore, Maryland that promotes left-of-center labor and environmental policy. 1 In 2002, a group of homeless men
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Nevada Current is a left-of-center news organization focused on government and political news coverage within the state of Nevada. The Current reports and comments on left-leaning social policy issues including politics, health, immigration, the environment, criminal justice, education, and housing.
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Patrick Young is one of the main organizers of Shut Down DC, an environmentalist activist coalition that conducted demonstrations blocking roadways in Washington, D.C. in September 2019.
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Shut Down DC is a coalition of environmentalist activist groups which announced plans to significantly disrupt traffic in Washington, D.C. on September 23, 2019 to bring awareness to climate change. The group has stated that it aims for its demonstrations to affect the most powerful people in the city by
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The Virginia Civic Engagement Table is a coalition of left-of-center advocacy groups that functions as a hub for environmentalist anti-conventional energy organizations, expanded voting rights, expanded abortion, and protection of illegal immigrants. The organization is the Virginia branch of State Voices, a nationwide coalition of left-leaning nonprofits that has
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The Abell Foundation is a left-of-center private grantmaking organization operating in the state of Maryland with a focus on the city of Baltimore. The Foundation focuses on “concentrated poverty” distributing grants on issues ranging from education to environmentalism. Its president, Robert C. Embry, Jr., is a former liberal elected official
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The Oak Hill Fund is a left-of-center grantmaking organization based in Charlottesville, Virginia. 1 The Oak Hill Fund was established in 2001 as a 501(c)(3) organization from the division
