ADVOCATE for Climate

Here are ways to get and stay engaged in the WA legislative process to make a difference on issues you care about. There is opportunity to influence a bill at every step!

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LOOKUP Bills by Subject: These sites make it easy to do ad hoc lookups and get information on the status of bills. Most have links for taking immediate action.

• 350 WA Bill Tracker: The WA 350 orgs have a lobbying effort to track all bills that affect climate and social justice. This tracker provides not only the status but background info, action links to comment, deadlines, and talking points. Join their Civic Action Team (see below) to receive grouped alerts at the time when input is needed on any of these bills.

• Environmental Priorities Coalition Hot List: Lists bills affecting environment and community health that require action each week. Provides some background info but no links or talking points. Sign up to receive alerts, with links, each week (see below).

• WA Legislature Site: This is the official WA site where you can lookup bills by number or see all bills on a subject (e.g. Climate). While it does not provide the politically progressive background info and comments of the other trackers it does have a clear graphic of the bill's status and links for contacting your legislator or receiving updates.

 

RESPOND When Bills Need Action: Instead of tracking bills manually, via websites in the previous section, these organizations will alert you when a bill (or bills) needs help moving on to the next step (or not). They give background info, and some provide suggested comments, and the link to provide your input. It is easy to sign up to try out (and easy to stop).

• 350 WA Civic Action Team: Receive 2 emails a week with a link to an easy-to-use page of typically 5-10 actions with all the data, links, and suggested comments. These actions move along the bills in their Bill Tracker list (see above) at all steps of the process. Join the team and don't miss a single chance to speak up!

• Washington Conservation Action: Multiple issues and levels of involvement offered, including legislation on environment and social justice, and advocacy for democracy and Native issues. Their Environmental Priorities Coalition tracks bills (see above) and sends weekly emails with background, talking points, and links for input on each bill at it's current step.

• Washington State Sierra Club: Legislative updates on clean transportation infrastructure and regulations, fighting climate pollution, and clean energy.

• Indivisible Whidbey Take Action Network: Actions for democracy and election issues with access to a statewide organizing hub with curated issues, alerts from Indivisible Whidbey, and simple scripts for calls and emails. They are looking for volunteers this election year.