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Advocates urge EPA to require incinerator emissions reporting (Legal Document)

4/3/2023

Advocates urge EPA to require waste incinerators to report their toxic chemical emissions to the agency’s Toxics Release Inventory (TRI).

LWVUS Supports Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (Legal Document)

3/15/2023

The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) is a critical, life-saving program that targets and serves the most vulnerable households, including older Americans, individuals with…

LWVUS Joins Sign-on Letter Urging 118th Congress to Support Environmental Investments in the Farm Bill (Legal Document)

2/28/2023

LWVUS joined nearly 650 other groups on a letter to House and Senate agriculture committee leadership urging that they protect investments in climate-smart agriculture and conservation in the Farm…

LWVUS Urges the EPA to Help Reduce Methane Pollution (Legal Document)

2/13/2023

LWVUS urges the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take additional measures to reduce methane air pollution from the oil and gas industry.

We Need Local Climate Action Plans (Blog)

1/31/2023

A concerted global effort is needed to fight climate change, yet global commitments to reduce carbon emissions are inadequate and slow. Local, regional, and state efforts are needed to step up the…

League of Women Voters highlights importance of health care rights (News Clips)

1/24/2023

This story was originally published by WIFR. It’s been seven months since Roe v. Wade was overturned, escalating debate over reproductive rights. Women’s reproductive rights has been a back-and-…

Women, Girls, and Climate Change at COP27 (Blog)

1/10/2023

In November 2022, the League sent delegates in person and virtually to observe the COP27 Climate Change Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Experts highlighted ways in which climate change…

LWVUS Submits Comments to HHS on Healthy People 2030 Objectives (Legal Document)

12/2/2022

LWVUS submitted public comments to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on the proposed Healthy People 2030 objectives. The League articulated why the objective to increase the…

Boise's Shiva Rajbhandari debriefs us on COP27 (News Clips)

12/2/2022

As an official representative of the national League of Women Voters, Shiva Rajbhandari talked to Boise State Public Radio about the COP27 Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.

Native American Activist You Should Know: Naelyn Pike (Blog)

11/29/2022

Naelyn Pike is a 23-year-old Chiricahua Apache. As a lifelong fighter, she continues to follow in her grandfather’s — the Apache Stronghold's founder — footsteps in protecting Apache's…