ferc must reject petition endangering net metering...2020/06/15 · 450 groups’ letter urging...

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To: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 888 First St NE

Washington, DC 20426 Date: June 15, 2020

Re: FERC MUST REJECT PETITION ENDANGERING NET METERING AND URGENTLY-

NEEDED JUST TRANSITION TO A CLEAN AND RESILIENT ENERGY FUTURE (DOCKET

EL20-42 - PETITION FOR DECLARATORY ORDER)

Dear Chairman Chatterjee and Commissioners Glick, McNamee, and Danly:

On behalf of our millions of members and supporters nationwide, we, the undersigned 450 organizations—including energy democracy, environmental justice, solar workforce, consumer advocate, and faith organizations—urge the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) to reject the New England Ratepayers Association’s (“NERA”) April 14, 2020 Petition seeking federal jurisdiction over state net metering programs (“Petition”). The Petition

threatens crucial state net metering policies and obstructs the urgently-needed clean and

just energy transition to address historical environmental injustices and the climate

emergency.

The Petition threatens to dismantle net metering policies across the country—

endangering the existence and growth of solar development nationwide. Net metering programs have been the cornerstone drivers for community, household, and business investments in distributed solar energy for many years. Net metering policies fairly credit solar customers for the electricity their panels generate. Granting the Petition would jeopardize long-standing state and local policies that support the existing solar systems serving nearly 2.2 million households and 100,000 businesses across 49 states and five territories. Such an outcome is especially egregious in the wake of the COVID-19 emergency, where families cannot afford energy bill hikes amidst mass unemployment and competing costs to survive. Further, dismantling state net metering policies obstructs future growth of distributed solar systems nationwide—and the immense job generation, energy justice, climate benefits, health benefits, and other economic benefits associated with distributed solar systems. Particularly in the wake of the current public health and climate emergencies, stifling these economic and climate resilience-building systems is unacceptable.

State net metering policies and distributed solar systems are foundational to achieving the nation’s urgently-needed clean and just energy transition—to address historical environmental injustices, fight the climate emergency, and ensure long-term resilience. Families classified as low-wealth and Black, Brown, Indigenous and other communities of color are disproportionately impacted by the pollution from centralized dirty fossil power and the ravage of climate

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disasters.1 As we tackle the climate emergency and make the urgently-needed energy system reforms, it is critical that the new energy paradigm not only be powered by clean and renewable energy, but also pioneer electricity structures that build community resilience and distribute wealth, power, and decision-making about energy choices equitably. 2 Solar is vital to that future, delivering benefits of equitable community development, local job generation, customer choice, and the energy security and resilience of communities in the long-term. As millions across the country face the threat of electricity shut-offs due to coronavirus-precipitated job losses, it is more apparent than ever that decentralized solar systems can help families generate their own power and decrease dependence on dirty centralized generation to weather such crises, only sure to rise in the face of growing wealth inequality and increasing climate impacts. 3

Critically, NERA raises several false claims in the Petition regarding the relationship

between net metering and families classified as low-wealth as well as communities of color. Claims that costs of solar energy are shifted to “those who cannot afford large houses or businesses” are spurious and misleading, as the majority of studies have found that the benefits of solar net metering outweigh costs for all ratepayers.4 Further, net metering is a critical component of rooftop solar and community solar, tools that increase clean energy access for low-wealth communities, communities of color, and renters. 5

In addition, the Petition demands that FERC itself dictate net metering policy, rather than

allowing these important decisions be made by states and localities, who are in the best position to address their communities’ unique needs.

As our nation continues to suffer from the novel coronavirus pandemic and we

increasingly experience harms of the climate crisis, FERC must support solutions to promote recovery and advance clean and just energy rather than preempting local decision making. We urge the Commission to reject the Petition and enact policies that accelerate the rapid transition to our clean and equitable energy future.

1 NAACP, Environmental and Climate Justice Program, In the Eye of the Storm (2018), https://live-naacp-site.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NAACP_InTheEyeOfTheStorm.pdf; Environmental Protection Agency, Public Health Benefits per kWh of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in the United States: A

Technical Report (2019). 2 See, e.g., Al Weinrub and Denise Fairchild, Energy Democracy: Advancing Equity in Clean Energy Solutions, (2018) available at https://islandpress.org/sites/default/files/9781610918510_excerpt.pdf. 3 See National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Distributed Energy Planning for Climate Resilience (2018), https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy18osti/71310.pdf; see also See J.Farrell, Community Solar Power: Obstacles and

Opportunities, The New Rules Project (2010), https://ilsr.org/wp-content/uploads/files/communitysolarpower2.pdf. 4 Brookings Institute, Rooftop solar: Net metering is a net benefit, May 2016, https://www.brookings.edu/research/rooftop-solar-net-metering-is-a-net-benefit/. 5 See GRID Alternatives and Vote Solar, Low-income Solar Policy Guide: Net Metering/Virtual Net

Metering, 2016, https://www.lowincomesolar.org/toolbox/net-metering/; See also Clean Energy States Alliance, Bringing the Benefits of Solar Energy to Low-Income Consumers: A Guide for States & Municipalities, May 2017, https://www.cesa.org/wp-content/uploads/Bringing-the-Benefits-of-Solar-to-Low-Income-Consumers.pdf.

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Center for Biological Diversity

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Radioactive Waste Specialist

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Center for Climate Change

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Center for Sustainable Energy

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Climate Defense Project

RL Miller

Founder

Climate Hawks Vote

Donald M. Goldberg

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Climate Law & Policy Project

Laura Berry

Director of Research

Climate Mobilization Project

Mark Stanley

Director of Operations

Demand Progress

Mary Gutierrez

Executive Director

Earth Action, Inc.


Tom Athanasiou

Executive Director

EcoEquity

Anne McKibbin

Policy Director

Elevate Energy

Jesse Stowell

Vice President of Business Development

Encore Renewable Energy

Austin Krause

Solar Integrator & Developer

Entero Energy

Andrew Taft

Director of Projects

Entero Energy LLC

Grant Smith

Senior Energy Policy Advisor

Environmental Working Group

Heather Hochrein

Chief Executive Officer

EVmatch, Inc.

Kathleen Doyle


FireFlower Alternative Energy

Brook Lenker

Executive Director

FracTracker Alliance

Stephen Schneck

Executive Director

Franciscan Action Network

Kieran Suckling

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Friends of the Owls

Dorinda Moreno

Founder, Principal

Fuerza Mundial / Hitec Aztec

Communications

Marnie Thompson

Co-Managing Director

Fund for Democratic Communities

Tish Tablan

Program Director, Solar for All Schools

Generation180

Tonya Graham

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Geos Institute

Jessica Loya

Director of Policy & Programs

GreenLatinos

Tara Hammond

Founder & CEO

Hammond Climate Solutions

David Schreiber

Investment Advisor

Greenvest/Vanderbilt Securities

Jessica Wolff

US Director of Climate and Health

Health Care Without Harm

Mark J Palmer

Associate Director

International Marine Mammal Project of

Earth Island Institute

Nina Jackel

President

Lady Freethinker

Ann Scholz

Associate Director for Social Mission

Leadership Conference of Women

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Al Weinrub

Coordinator

Local Clean Energy Alliance

Vic Macks

Steering Committee

Michigan Stop the Nuclear Bombs

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Graham Clumpner

Organizer

Mosquito Fleet

Vanessa Rule

Co-Founder, Director of Learning

Mothers Out Front

Michelle Mascarenhas

Co-Director

Movement Generation

Kimberly Gutzler

President

National Children's Campaign

Vina Colley

Co-Founder

National Nuclear Workers for Justice

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DeeVon Quirolo

President

Nature Coast Conservation, Inc.

Gary Skulnik

CEO

Neighborhood Sun Benefit Corp

Judy Treichel

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Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force

Mark Durrenberger

President

New England Clean Energy, Inc.

Timothy Judson

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Nuclear Information and Resource

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Michael Stocker

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Ocean Conservation Research

Terrence Moran

Director

Office of Peace, Justice, and Ecological

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Sheila Parks

Founder

On Behalf Of Planet Earth

Jo Lum

Founder

Outstanding Returns

Craig Hart

Executive Director

Pace Energy and Climate Center

Laura Haight

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Partnership for Policy Integrity

Elandria Williams

Executive Director

PeoplesHub

Elizabeth Galante

SVP Business Development

PosiGen Solar

Dany Sigwalt

Co-Executive Director

Power Shift Network

Russell Greene

Senior Advisor, Strategy and Climate Policy

Progressive Democrats of America

Mike Hudak

Director

Public Lands Project

Bob Musil

President & CEO

Rachel Carson Council

Patrick McCully

Climate & Energy Director

Rainforest Action Network

Brian Urbaszewski

Respiratory Health Association

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Diego

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The Climate Center

Malinda Dickenson

General Counsel

The Protect Our Communities

Foundation

Marylia Kelley

Executive Director

Tri-Valley CAREs, Livermore, CA

Jack Kurzweil

Administrative Coordinator

Wellatone Democratic Renewal Club

Anita Ghazarian

Vice President

Ban SUP

Nancy Halpern Ibrahim

Executive Director

Esperanza Community Housing

Corporation


Kat Wilson

Legislation & Policy Committee

The Climate Reality Project, Santa Clara

COLORADO

Micah Parkin

Executive Director

350 Colorado

Marie Venner

Co-Chair

Call to Action CO

Marie Venner

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Dwayne Paul

Director

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CONNETICUT

Sharon Lewis

Executive Director

Connecticut Coalition for Environmental

Justice

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John Sykes

President

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Zelalem Adefris

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Catalyst Miami

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Natalie Gass

Sustainability Coordinator

City of Dunedin

Sarah Randolph

Chairperson

Escambia County Democratic

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Enid Sisskin

Director

Gulf Coast Environmental Defense

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Helping Hero's

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Executive Director

The CLEO Institute


GEORGIA

Bobbie Paul

Member

Atlanta Grandmothers for Peace

Jairo Garcia

Chair

Climate Reality Atlanta Chapter

Gordon Kenna

Public Works

DeKalb County, GA

Bambie Hayes-Brown

President and Chief Executive Officer

Georgia Advancing Communities

Together, Inc.

Helen Butler

Executive Director

Georgia Coalition for the People's

Agenda

Brionte McCorkle

Executive Director

Georgia Conservation Voters

Deborah Scott

Executive Director

Georgia Stand-Up

Berneta Haynes

Senior Director of Policy and Access

Georgia Watch

Dr. Mildred McClain

Co-Founder / Executive Director

Harambee House/Citizens for

Environmental Justice

Alex Trachtenberg

Senior Project Manager

Southface Institute

Na'Taki Osborne Jelks

West Atlanta Watershed Alliance, Inc.

West Atlanta Watershed Alliance, Inc.

IDAHO

Holly Harris

Executive Director

Snake River Alliance

Alex McLeese


350 Chicago

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Shanda-Joy Laws

Founder & CEO

Live Fresh

Robert Dean


Center for Neighborhood Technology

Lesley McCain

Member

Illinois Solar Energy Association

Juliana Pino

Policy Director

Little Village Environmental Justice

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Nancy Loeb

Director and Clinical Associate Professor

of Law

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law


Kim Knowles

Attorney & Policy Specialist

Prairie Rivers Network

INDIANA

Kerwin Olson

Executive Director

Citizens Action Coalition of IN

Alex Jorck

Whole Sun Designs Inc.

Whole Sun Designs Inc.

Dori Chandler

Public Policy Director

Interfaith Power & Light, Hoosier

Jim Osterhaus

Chairperson

Clayton County Energy District

IOWA

Sandra Stanley

Board President

Clean Air Muscatine

Austin Britton

Founder

Greater Lafayette Climate Synthesis

Mike Carberry

Founding Director

Green State Solutions

Amy Bouska

Board chair

Howard County Energy District

Jason Snell

Hub Coorindator

Sunrise Movement Cedar Rapids

Adam Mason

State Policy Organizing Director

Iowa Citizens for Community

Improvement

KENTUCKY

Dawn Cooley

Executive Director

Interfaith Power & Light, Kentucky

Cassia Herron

Chairperson

Kentuckians For The Commonwealth

Ryan St. Clair

Member

Sunrise Bowling Green

Peter Hille

President

MACED


Kristina Peterson

Facilitator

Lowlander Center

LOUISIANA

Renate Heurich

Board Vice President

350 New Orleans

Logan Burke

Executive Director

Alliance for Affordable Energy

Amy Eshoo

Program Manager

350 Maine

Kathleen Meil

Director of Policy & Partnerships

Maine Conservation Voters

Lore Rosenthal

Program Coordinator

Greenbelt Climate Action Network

William Webster

Chair, Climate Change Task Force

Unitarian Universalist Legislative

Ministry of Maryland

MAINE

Lawson Wulsin

Executive Director

A Climate to Thrive

Samuel Zuckerman

Owner

Maine Solar Solutions

Kevin Zeese

Member

Popular Resistance

Ruth White

Advocacy Lead

Howard County Climate Action

Scott Vlaun

Executive Director

Center for an Ecology Based Economy

Sophie Janeway

Climate and Clean Energy Outreach

Coordinator

Natural Resources Council of Maine

Debra Gardner

Legal Director

Public Justice Center

Iris Zhan

Trainer

Sunrise Movement Howard County


Carolyn Barthel

Executive Committee Member

350 Massachusetts for a Better Future

MASSACHUSETTS

Sarah Stewart

President

Animals Are Sentient Beings, Inc.

Russell Aney


Avid Solar LLC

Fran Ludwig

Chair

Boston Catholic Climate Movement

Deborah Frieze

President

Boston Impact Initiative

Daniel Mello Guimaraes

CEO & Co-Founder

Boston Solar

Chris Kilfoyle

President

BPVS

Cole Silva

Co-Chair

Cape Cod Democratic Socialists of

America

Richard Chase

Chase Systems

Chase Systems LLC

Jen Stevenson Zepeda

Deputy Director

Climable.org

John Harris

Co-Chair

Climate Action Brookline

Adele Franks

Steering Committee

Climate Action Now, Western

Massachusetts

canyon woodward

Harvard Alumni Organizer

Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard Alumni

Susan Worgaftik

Forum Coordinator

Greening Greenfield

Maria Belen Power

GreenRoots, Inc

GreenRoots, Inc

Eric Broadbent

Steering Committee

Harvard Solar Gardens - Community

Solar Installation

Betsy Smith

Coordinating Commiting Member

Lower Cape Indivisible

Christopher Smith

Secretary/Chair

Massachusetts Solar Owners Assocation

Quincy Vale

President

MassAmerican Energy LLC

Mark Sandeen

President

MassSolar

Mary O'Donnell

Owner

No Fossil Fuel


Gregory Garrison

President

Northeast Solar Design Associates

Douglas Denny-Brown

Co-Founder/General Counsel

PathZERO Energy, Inc.

Mark Sandeen

Managing Director

RePower Partners

James Michel

Co-Founder

Resist the Pipeline

Ben Underwood

Co-Chief Executive Officer

Resonant Energy

Brian Sadler

Vice President

RevoluSun

John Tourtelotte

Managing Director

Rivermoor Energy

Megan Amsler

Executive Director

Self-Reliance Corporation

Sarah Pick

Home energy consultant

SJP Environmental Consulting, LLC

Claire Chang

Owner

Solar Store of Greenfield

Matthew Arner

Senior Advisor

SolarFlair

Craig Huntley

Solect Energy

Solect Energy

Rob Meyers

Director, Energy Technology &

Engineering

South Mountain Company, Inc

Mike Kocsmiersky

Principal

Spirit Solar Inc

Ben Mayer

VP Residential

SunBug Solar

Kathleen McTigue

Director, Activism & Justice Education

Unitarian Universalist Service

Committee

Phil Thayer

Chair

SustainableBelmont.net


Jessie Collins

Co-Chair

Citizens' Resistance at Fermi Two

(CRAFT)

MICHIGAN

Charles Griffith

Climate and Energy Program Director

Ecology Center

Justin Schott

Executive Director

EcoWorks

Gregory Panzica

President

Peace Nick

Jackson Koeppel

Executive Director

Soulardarity

Adrian Laurenzi

Hub Coordinator

Sunrise Movement Detroit

Roslyn Ogburn

Candidate

Committee for Roslyn M. Ogburn for

State Representative 9th HD

John Freeman

Executive Director

Great Lakes Renewable Energy

Association (GLREA)

Elizabeth Dickinson

Board Member

Community Power

MINNESOTA

Julia Nerbonne

Executive Director

Interfaith Power & Light, Minnesota

Jean Ross

Board President

Vote Climate

Rachel Mayes

Executive Director

Southern Echo Inc.

Erik Hatlestad

Energy Democracy Program Director

CURE

MISSISSIPPI

Dr. Charlotte L. Keys


JPAP

Catherine Robinson

Program Manager

One Voice Mississippi

MISSOURI

Don Dieckmann

Director

Better Building Institute Inc.


Amy Cilimburg

Executive Director

Climate Smart Missoula

MONTANA

Jim Miller

Member

Friends of the Bitterroot

Andrew Valainis

Executive Director

Montana Renewable Energy Association

Brian Fadie

Clean Energy Program Director

Montana Environmental Information

Center

Elizabeth Ndoye

Facilitator

MoveOn.org - HobokenRESIST

Kim Gaddy

Director

South Ward Environmental Alliance

Thomas Solomon

Co-Coordinator

350 New Mexico

Susan Gordon

Coordinator

Multicultural Alliance for a Safe

Environment

NEW JERSEY

Sally Jane Gellert

Member

Occupy Bergen County

Nedim Buyukmihci

President

Unexpected Wildlife Refuge

NEW MEXICO

Janet Greenwald

Coordinator

Citizens for Alternatives to Radioactive

Dumping (CARD)

Mariel Nanasi

Executive Director

New Energy Economy

William Kibler

Director of Policy

Raritan Headwaters

Sister Joan Brown

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Interfaith Power and Light, New Mexico

Wendy Volkmann

Co-Director

PNM Shareholders for a Responsible

Future


Mimi Bluestone

Co-Leader

350 Brooklyn

NEW YORK

Andra Leimanis

Communications & Outreach Director

Alliance for a Green Economy

Eban Goodstein

Director

Bard Center for Environmental Policy

Adam Flint

Director of Clean Energy Programs

Binghamton Regional Sustainability

Coalition

Mary Smith

Communications Director

Church Women United in New York

State

Susan H. Gillespie

President of the Board

Citizens for Local Power

Charley Bowman

Chair

Environmental Justice Task Force of the

WNY Peace Center

Yvonne Taylor

Vice President

Gas Free Seneca

Eileen Coles

Founder

Green Glen Cove

MannaJo Greene

Environmental Director

Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc.

Lisa Tyson

Director

Long Island Progressive Coalition

Elizabeth Broad

Director

New Yorkers For Clean Power

Jonathan Bix

Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson

Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson

Bill Nowak

Executive Director

NY-GEO

Gordian Raacke

Executive Director

Renewable Energy Long Island (reLI)

Nancy Vann

President

Safe Energy Rights Group (SEnRG)

Joseph Campbell

President

Seneca Lake Guardian

Mazeda A. Uddin

Founder/CEO

South Asian Fund For Education,

Scholarship and Training

Linda Reik

Member, Board of Directors

Sullivan Alliance for Sustainable

Development

Wes Ernsberger

Chair

UU Congregation of Binghamton, Green

Sanctuary

Nada Khader

Executive Director

WESPAC

Linda Parks

Founding Member

West Dryden Residents Against the

Pipeline

Jerry Rivers

Environmental Scientist

North American Climate, Conservation

and Environment (NACCE)

Kerene Tayloe

Director of Federal Legislative Policy

WE ACT for Environmental Justice


Chip VanNess

Member

350 Lake Norman

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Karen Bearden

Member

350 Triangle

Steve Owen

Co-Founder & Executive Director

Appalachian Institute for Renewable

Energy (AIRE)

Martha Girolami

Member

Chatham Research Group

Bobby Jones

President

Down East Coal Ash Environmental and

Social Justice Coalition

Nancy LaPlaca

Principal

LaPlaca and Associates LLC

Ethan Fitzpatrick

Product Architect

NC Solar Now

Esther Manheimer

Mayor

City of Asheville

Liane Salgado

Founder

Golden Egg Permaculture

Eliza Stokes

Advocacy & Communications Associate

MountainTrue

Sally Thames

Member

Sunrise Movement Asheville

Danna Smith

Executive Director

Dogwood Alliance

Susannah Tuttle

Director

Interfaith Power & Light, North

Carolina

Jodi Lasseter

Founder & Co-Convener

NC Climate Justice Collective

Alexis Luckey

Executive Director

Toxic Free NC


Jonathan Welle

Executive Director

Cleveland Owns

Diane Hodiak

Executive Director

350 Deschutes

Reeves Clippard

President and CEO

A&R Solar

OHIO

Leatra Harper

Managing Director

Fresh Water Accountability Project

OREGON

Linda Kelley

Member

350 Eugene

Simeon Jacob

Environmental Justice Coordinator

Asian Pacific American Network of

Oregon

Vina Colley

President

Portsmouth Piketon Residents for

Environmental Safety and Security

Clair Clark

Co-Coordinator

350 Salem OR

Lisa Arkin

Executive Director

Beyond Toxics

Elizabeth Graser-Lindsey

Member

Clackamas Climate Action Coalition

Brendan Adamczyk

Co-Director

Climate Justice League

Linda Craig

Representative

Community for Earth, First Unitarian

Church of Portland

Catherine Thomasson

Vice Chair

Environmental Caucus Democratic Party

of Oregon

Lynn Handlin

Treasurer

Extinction Rebellion PDX

Leonard Barrett

Co-President, Board of Directors

Families for a Livable Climate

Cherice Bock

Creation Justice Advocate

Interfaith Power & Light,

Oregon/Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon

Rich Peppers


Metro Climate Action Team, OLCV -

Oregon

Nora Apter

Climate Program Director

Oregon Environmental Council

Doug Moore

Executive Director

Oregon League of Conservation Voters

Angela Crowley-Koch

Executive Director

Oregon Solar Energy Industries

Association

Donnie Maclurcan

Executive Director

Post Growth Institute


Sharon Furlong

Spokesperson

Bucks Environmental Action

PENNSYLVANIA

David Hughes

President

Citizen Power, Inc.

Cricket Hunter

Member

Interfaith Power & Light, Pennsylvania

Joan L Farb

Affiliate Leader

Move to Amend- Lower Bucks

Jamila Medley

Executive Director

Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance

Dwayne Royster

Executive Director

POWER: An Interfaith Movement

Michael Pisano

Hub Coordinator

Sunrise Movement Pittsburgh

Joylette Portlock

Executive Director

Sustainable Pittsburgh

PUERTO RICO

Abel Vale

President

Ciudadanos Del Karso

David Oliver

Member

Columbia Friends Meeting (Quakers) of

South Carolina

SOUTH CAROLINA

Dr. F. Taylor

Coordinator

Hilton Head for Peace

Dallas Conyers

Program Coordinator

Interfaith Power & Light, South

Carolina

Mark Winegar

Chairman

Sierra Club South Dakota

SOUTH DAKOTA

Meg Jamison

Executive Director

Southeast Sustainability Directors

Network


Ann League

Executive Director

SOCM

Isabella Killius

Organizer

Sunrise Movement Knoxville

Tricia Cortez

Executive Director

RGISC Inc dba Rio Grande

International Study Center

TENNESSEE

Jeffrey Barrie


Tennessee Environmental Council

Victoria Manning

Direct action and political strategy lead

Sunrise Movement Nashville

TEXAS

Aaryaman Singhal

Co-founder

Sunrise Movement Dallas

Duffy-Marie Arnoult

Co-Chair

The Climate Reality Project: Memphis

and Mid-South Regional Chapter

Ishaan Sharma

Sunrise Movement

Sunrise Movement San Antonio

Miles Bedlan

Hub Coordinator

Sunrise Movement Wakeland

Ed Kelly

President

Shenandoah Energy Services

Irene Leech

President

Virginia Citizens Consumer Council

VIRGINIA

Garry Harris

Managing Director

Center for Sustainable Communities

Eric Beck

Member

Solar Design and Installation Company

Richard Walker

Founder/CEO

Bridging The Gap In Virginia

Lee Williams

Co-Director

Green New Deal VA

Queen Zakia Shabazz

Founder

United Parents Against Lead & Other

Environmental Hazards (UPAL)

Chad Oba

President

Friends of Buckingham


LeeAnne Beres

Executive Director

Earth Ministry/Interfaith Power &

Light, Washington

WASHINGTON

Peggy Maze Johnson

Board Member

Heart of America NW

Kevin Jones

Board Member

Vashon Climate Action Group

Jeff DeLuca

Executive Director

WA State Community Action

Partnership

WEST VIRGINIA

Roseanna Sacco

President

Preserve Monroe

Vivian Stockman

Executive Director

OVEC - Ohio Valley Environmental

Coalition

Ted Boettner

Executive Director

West Virginia Center on Budget and

Policy

Corey E. Olsen

Owner/Activist

CEO Pipe Organs/Golden Ponds Farm

Linda Frame

President

West Virginia Environmental Council

WISCONSIN

John Helt

Board President

Interfaith Power and Light, Wisconsin

Tony Wilkin Gibart

Executive Director

Midwest Environmental Advocates

Susan Michetti

Organizer

Mt. Horeb Citizens Against Water

Fluoridation

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