Find candidates. Explore their environmental record. Understand the issues. Ask better questions.
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Find the environmental information most relevant to candidates in your area. Search for a candidate below to see their recommended YBG Environmental Briefs. Our database currently covers NYC, Long Island and north to Albany, Chicago Metro, DC Metro, SF Bay Area, Colorado, Austin, San Antonio and Boston Metro area.
Don’t just find your candidates. Understand their environmental record, the issues they may face, and questions worth asking.
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HOW WE RESEARCH CANDIDATES – click to open
YBG reviews publicly available, verifiable sources to document each candidate’s environmental record. We look for votes and legislative actions, sponsored or co-sponsored legislation, executive actions where applicable, published policy positions, and environmental ratings from independent organizations.
We do not infer environmental positions from party affiliation or create our own candidate ratings. When we find relevant information, we identify the source. When our research does not identify a substantial candidate-specific environmental record, we say so rather than drawing a conclusion from the absence of information.
WHY YBG BUILT THIS – click to open
There are excellent resources for learning who is running, how to vote and how environmental organizations have rated elected officials. YBG is designed to take you one step further.
We connect the candidate and documented record with the environmental issues relevant to that office and jurisdiction, then connect those issues to real approaches being used around the country and substantive questions worth asking.
YBG does not endorse or score candidates. Our purpose is to give voters better information for making their own judgments—and better tools for engaging candidates.
Know the Record
Documented votes, actions, positions and independent rates
Know what matters here
Environmental issues relevant to this office and jurisdiction
Ask Better Questions
Leading approaches from around the country – and questions worth asking candidates
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