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Caroline Spears

Caroline Spears

Jul 9, 2026

14:52
Like what don't what don't people understand when they are heading into that ballot box with some of the things that you've mentioned in mind?
14:58
There's a few pieces.
14:59
I would say the first most common misconception or the most common opportunity is that state and local lawmakers are really where the majority of people.
15:10
Clean energy and climate progress is made and certainly for the next few years.
15:13
Like this is the avenue and states are the future of climate progress.
15:17
So that's the first piece.
15:19
Just to give some more examples of this.

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29:13
Who are the types of partners that you need that make the biggest difference for you as you operate?
0:17
They seek to identify climate champions running for state and local offices across the country and help get them elected.
0:24
So what we're doing is we're using technology, including data science, to comb through all of those and find where places where there's a big opportunity for climate.
0:33
So we find folks, we support them early in their election efforts to make sure that they can get across the finish line.
0:42
Climate Cabinet verifies that these candidates will be climate champions.
0:46
A lot of times folks will have been on a city council, a county council, state legislature, a utility board, and we can look at how they voted on big issues have come up before them.

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