Make Calls for Climate Justice Champs

Want to fight Trump’s fossil-fueled agenda?

As the Trump administration defunds federal climate action, we need our cities, counties, and states to step up. That’s why Lead Locally is supporting climate champions running for local elected office across the country.

In summer and fall 2025, we worked with partners to make phone calls and talk to voters in three priority races with important stakes for climate and democracy:

• In Virginia, we made calls in support of progressive state legislators to strengthen the state’s Democratic Assembly majority and beat MAGA Republicans. We took action to successfully secure a pro-climate Democratic trifecta that can now pass bills to regulate the statewide utility Dominion Energy, cut carbon pollution, and ensure affordable energy bills for all.
  
  
• In Georgia, we backed two climate champions – Dr. Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard – running for the Public Service Commission (PSC), which oversees the state’s utility monopoly Georgia Power. The newly-elected Johnson and Hubbard will fight to lower energy bills for working families by stopping rate hikes and accelerating the buildout of renewable energy.
  
  
• In New Orleans, Louisiana, we organized for Pastor Gregory Manning for City Council. A longtime leader in the city’s climate justice movement, Pastor Manning’s platform centered on reigning in the profits of the city’s utility Entergy and tackling the skyrocketing costs of utility bills and housing.