Vote Like the Fate of Earth Depends On It!

 By Linda Sullivan

Did you vote for Sierra Club endorsed candidates in 2020? 

If you did, you made it possible for DuPage legislators Terra Costa Howard, Anne Stava Murray, Laura Ellman, Suzy Glowiak, Maura Hirschauer, and Karina Villa to pass a nation-leading climate change law, the Clean and Equitable Jobs Act. Your vote made it possible for them to pass laws regulating coal ash pollution that is contaminating Lake Michigan and drinking water throughout the state, a ban on burning the cancer-causing forever chemical PFAS, and so much more.

If you voted for Sierra Club endorsed candidates, you helped US Congressman Sean Casten get around the stymied Congress and Senate by using the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to promote wind energy and use the military appropriation budget and the budget reconciliation bill to quietly accomplish parts of Biden’s climate agenda that were stalled in the Build Back Better bill.

Or you helped Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi to work across the aisle as cochair of the House Solar Energy Committee with a cochair who is a bedrock conservative from South Carolina to persuade climate skeptics to pass laws promoting solar energy. The importance of Krishnamoorthi’s remarkable ability to talk to conservatives cannot be overstated.

Or you helped Congressman Bill Foster get 75 percent federal funding for the Brandon Road project needed to stop Asian carp from entering Lake Michigan and use his background as a scientist to advance battery storage technology and fund the next generation of clean energy technology.

If you voted for our endorsed candidates, you helped elect DuPage Forest Preserve Commissioners Jeff Gahris and Tina Tyson-Dunne. They have formed an important part of the nucleus that has brought energy sustainability to the Forest preserves, as well as adding miles of trails and amenities for residents of DuPage County to enjoy. 

Your vote matters! These environmental champions won because people like you voted for them, and they are making a difference.

The 2022 election needs you. You can find Illinois Sierra Club’s 2022 endorsed candidates by clicking https://www.sierraclub.org/illinois/2022 . You can find Sierra Club’s Congressional endorsements at https://www.sierraclubindependentaction.org/endorsements