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To: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 888 First St NE Washington, DC 20426

Date: June 15, 2020

Re: FERC MUST REJECT PETITION ENDANGERING NET METERING AND URGENTLY- NEEDED JUST TRANSITION TO A CLEAN AND RESILIENT ENERGY FUTURE (DOCKET EL20-42 - PETITION FOR DECLARATORY ORDER)

Dear Chairman Chatterjee and Commissioners Glick, McNamee, and Danly:

On behalf of our millions of members and supporters nationwide, we, the undersigned 450 organizations—including energy democracy, environmental justice, solar workforce, consumer advocate, and faith organizations—urge the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) to reject the New England Ratepayers Association’s (“NERA”) April 14, 2020 Petition seeking federal jurisdiction over state net metering programs (“Petition”). The Petition threatens crucial state net metering policies and obstructs the urgently-needed clean and just energy transition to address historical environmental injustices and the climate emergency.

The Petition threatens to dismantle net metering policies across the country— endangering the existence and growth of solar development nationwide. Net metering programs have been the cornerstone drivers for community, household, and business investments in distributed solar energy for many years. Net metering policies fairly credit solar customers for the electricity their panels generate. Granting the Petition would jeopardize long-standing state and local policies that support the existing solar systems serving nearly 2.2 million households and 100,000 businesses across 49 states and five territories. Such an outcome is especially egregious in the wake of the COVID-19 emergency, where families cannot afford energy bill hikes amidst mass unemployment and competing costs to survive. Further, dismantling state net metering policies obstructs future growth of distributed solar systems nationwide—and the immense job generation, energy justice, climate benefits, health benefits, and other economic benefits associated with distributed solar systems. Particularly in the wake of the current public health and climate emergencies, stifling these economic and climate resilience-building systems is unacceptable.

State net metering policies and distributed solar systems are foundational to achieving the nation’s urgently-needed clean and just energy transition—to address historical environmental injustices, fight the climate emergency, and ensure long-term resilience. Families classified as low-wealth and Black, Brown, Indigenous and other communities of color are disproportionately impacted by the pollution from centralized dirty fossil power and the ravage of climate

disasters.1 As we tackle the climate emergency and make the urgently-needed energy system reforms, it is critical that the new energy paradigm not only be powered by clean and renewable energy, but also pioneer electricity structures that build community resilience and distribute wealth, power, and decision-making about energy choices equitably. 2 Solar is vital to that future, delivering benefits of equitable community development, local job generation, customer choice, and the energy security and resilience of communities in the long-term. As millions across the country face the threat of electricity shut-offs due to coronavirus-precipitated job losses, it is more apparent than ever that decentralized solar systems can help families generate their own power and decrease dependence on dirty centralized generation to weather such crises, only sure to rise in the face of growing wealth inequality and increasing climate impacts. 3

Critically, NERA raises several false claims in the Petition regarding the relationship between net metering and families classified as low-wealth as well as communities of color. Claims that costs of solar energy are shifted to “those who cannot afford large houses or businesses” are spurious and misleading, as the majority of studies have found that the benefits of solar net metering outweigh costs for all ratepayers.4 Further, net metering is a critical component of rooftop solar and community solar, tools that increase clean energy access for low- wealth communities, communities of color, and renters. 5

In addition, the Petition demands that FERC itself dictate net metering policy, rather than allowing these important decisions be made by states and localities, who are in the best position to address their communities’ unique needs.

As our nation continues to suffer from the novel coronavirus pandemic and we increasingly experience harms of the climate crisis, FERC must support solutions to promote recovery and advance clean and just energy rather than preempting local decision making. We urge the Commission to reject the Petition and enact policies that accelerate the rapid transition to our clean and equitable energy future.

1 NAACP, Environmental and Climate Justice Program, In the Eye of the Storm (2018), https://live-naacp- site.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NAACP_InTheEyeOfTheStorm.pdf; Environmental Protection Agency, Public Health Benefits per kWh of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in the United States: A Technical Report (2019). 2 See, e.g., Al Weinrub and Denise Fairchild, Energy Democracy: Advancing Equity in Clean Energy Solutions, (2018) available at https://islandpress.org/sites/default/files/9781610918510_excerpt.pdf. 3 See National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Distributed Energy Planning for Climate Resilience (2018), https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy18osti/71310.pdf; see also See J.Farrell, Community Solar Power: Obstacles and Opportunities, The New Rules Project (2010), https://ilsr.org/wp-content/uploads/files/communitysolarpower2.pdf. 4 Brookings Institute, Rooftop solar: Net metering is a net benefit, May 2016, https://www.brookings.edu/research/rooftop-solar-net-metering-is-a-net-benefit/. 5 See GRID Alternatives and Vote Solar, Low-income Solar Policy Guide: Net Metering/Virtual Net Metering, 2016, https://www.lowincomesolar.org/toolbox/net-metering/; See also Clean Energy States Alliance, Bringing the Benefits of Solar Energy to Low-Income Consumers: A Guide for States & Municipalities, May 2017, https://www.cesa.org/wp-content/uploads/Bringing-the-Benefits-of-Solar-to-Low-Income-Consumers.pdf. Page 2 of 24 450 GROUPS’ LETTER URGING REJECTION OF NERA PETITION June 15, 2020

CONVENING PARTNERS

Jean Su & Shiva Patel Nathan Phelps Chandra Farley Energy Justice Program Regulatory Director Just Energy Director

Center for Biological Diversity Vote Solar Partnership for Southern Equity

Tamara Toles O'Laughlin Sylvia Chi Ted Glick North America Director Policy Director Co-Founder

350.org Asian Pacific Environmental Network Beyond Extreme Energy

Timothy DenHerder-Thomas Lynn Benander Denise Fairchild General Manager Executive Director Executive Director

Cooperative Energy Futures Co-op Power Emerald Cities Collaborative

Emily Wurth Lukas Ross Charlie Jiang Co-Director, Organizing Senior Policy Analyst Climate Campaigner

Food & Water Watch Friends of the Earth Greenpeace USA

Andie Wyatt John Farrel Basav Sen Policy & Regulatory Manager Co-Director Director

Grid Alternatives Institute for Local Self-Reliance Institute for Policy Studies,

Climate Policy Project

Rev. Michael Malcolm Michael Leon Guerrero Jim Warren Board Member Executive Director Executive Director

Interfaith Power & Light, National Labor for Sustainability Network NC WARN

Colin Rees Tyson Slocum Johanna Bozuwa Senior Campaigner Director Co-Manager, Energy & Climate

Oil Change International Public Citizen The Democracy Collaborative

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NATIONAL

Drew Hudson Bobby Vaughn Jr. Maayan Cohen Founder Investigative Journalist Director of Partnerships & Campaigns 198 Methods A Call to Actions Alliance for Climate Education (ACE)

Mike Garrity Emily Cosbar Bill Plotkin Executive Director Market Policy Analyst Director Alliance for the Wild Rockies Ampion, Inc. Animas Valley Institute

Harriet Festing Kevin Kamps DeWitt Jones Executive Director Radioactive Waste Specialist Executive Vice President Anthropocene Alliance Beyond Nuclear BlueHub Capital

Edward Maibach Marty Newell Raghav Murali Director Chief Operating Officer Director of Policy and General Counsel Center for Climate Change Center for Rural Strategies Center for Sustainable Energy Communication

Deb Katz Vick Mohanka Suzanne Hume Executive Director Clean Energy Organizer Founder, Educational Director Citizens Awareness Network Clean Water Action CleanEarth4Kids.org

Alice Cherry RL Miller Donald M. Goldberg Co-Founder and Staff Attorney Founder Executive Director Climate Defense Project Climate Hawks Vote Climate Law & Policy Project

Laura Berry Mark Stanley Mary Gutierrez Director of Research Director of Operations Executive Director Climate Mobilization Project Demand Progress Earth Action, Inc.

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Tom Athanasiou Anne McKibbin Jesse Stowell Executive Director Policy Director Vice President of Business Development EcoEquity Elevate Energy Encore Renewable Energy

Austin Krause Andrew Taft Grant Smith Solar Integrator & Developer Director of Projects Senior Energy Policy Advisor Entero Energy Entero Energy LLC Environmental Working Group

Heather Hochrein Kathleen Doyle Brook Lenker Chief Executive Officer Chief Executive Officer Executive Director EVmatch, Inc. FireFlower Alternative Energy FracTracker Alliance

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Marnie Thompson Tish Tablan Tonya Graham Co-Managing Director Program Director, Solar for All Schools Executive Director Fund for Democratic Communities Generation180 Geos Institute

Jessica Loya Tara Hammond David Schreiber Director of Policy & Programs Founder & CEO Investment Advisor GreenLatinos Hammond Climate Solutions Greenvest/Vanderbilt Securities

Jessica Wolff Mark J Palmer Nina Jackel US Director of Climate and Health Associate Director President Health Care Without Harm International Marine Mammal Project of Lady Freethinker Earth Island Institute

Ann Scholz Al Weinrub Vic Macks Associate Director for Social Mission Coordinator Steering Committee Leadership Conference of Women Local Clean Energy Alliance Michigan Stop the Nuclear Bombs Religious Campaign

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Graham Clumpner Vanessa Rule Michelle Mascarenhas Organizer Co-Founder, Director of Learning Co-Director Mosquito Fleet Mothers Out Front Movement Generation

Kimberly Gutzler Vina Colley DeeVon Quirolo President Co-Founder President National Children's Campaign National Nuclear Workers for Justice Nature Coast Conservation, Inc. (NNWJ)

Gary Skulnik Judy Treichel Mark Durrenberger CEO Executive Director President Neighborhood Sun Benefit Corp Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force New England Clean Energy, Inc.

Timothy Judson Michael Stocker Terrence Moran Executive Director Director Director Nuclear Information and Resource Ocean Conservation Research Office of Peace, Justice, and Ecological Service Integrity

Sheila Parks Jo Lum Craig Hart Founder Founder Executive Director On Behalf Of Planet Earth Outstanding Returns Pace Energy and Climate Center

Laura Haight Elandria Williams Elizabeth Galante US Policy Director Executive Director SVP Business Development Partnership for Policy Integrity PeoplesHub PosiGen Solar

Dany Sigwalt Russell Greene Mike Hudak Co-Executive Director Senior Advisor, Strategy and Climate Policy Director Power Shift Network Progressive Democrats of America Public Lands Project

Bob Musil Patrick McCully Brian Urbaszewski President & CEO Climate & Energy Director Respiratory Health Association Rachel Carson Council Rainforest Action Network Respiratory Health Association

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Phil Coupe Andreas Karelas David Swanson Co-Founder Executive Director Campaign Coordinator ReVision Energy RE-volv RootsAction.org

Dan Becker Mara Freilich Ara Marderosian Director Steering Committee Member Executive Director Safe Climate Campaign Science for the People Sequoia ForestKeeper®

Marianne Comfort Glen Brand Wilder Zeiser Justice Coordinator Vice-President, Policy and Advocacy Climate Campaigner Sisters of Mercy of the Americas Justice Solar United Neighbors Stand.earth Team

Michael Gilroy Patrick Jackson Michael Stone Chief Executive Officer Co-Founder Manager Sungage Financial LLC SunRaise Investments LLC Suntility Electric LLC

Susanne Moser, Ph.D. Ken Berlin Annalisa Tuel Director President and CEO Policy & Advocacy Manager Susanne Moser Research & Consulting The Climate Reality Project Turtle Island Restoration Network

John Rogers Elizabeth Chun Hye Lee Russell Lowes Senior Energy Analyst Executive, Economic and Environmental Research Director Justice and Climate Justice Lead Union of Concerned Scientists www.SafeEnergyAnalyst.org United Methodist Women

Igor Tregub Chair Young Democrats of America Environmental Caucus

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ALABAMA Michael Hansen Executive Director Gasp

ALASKA

Bob Shavelson Veri di Suvero Philip Wight Inletkeeper Executive Director Renewable Energy Campaigner Cook Inletkeeper Alaska PIRG Fairbanks Climate Action Coalition

Madeline Rose Polly Carr Climate Campaign Director Executive Director Pacific Environment The Alaska Center

ARIZONA

Scott Meyer Rev. Doug Bland Vincent Pawlowski President Executive Director Founder and Executive Director Don't Waste Arizona, Inc. Interfaith Power & Light, Arizona Tucson Climate Action Network

ARKANSAS

Dan Scheiman

Vice President

Audubon Society of Central Arkansas

CALIFORNIA

Ken Jones Mary Kay Alan Weiner Clean Energy Campaign Lead Member Chapter Lead 350 Bay Area 350 Butte County California 350 Conejo / San Fernando Valley

Peter Hewitt Joyce Lane Emily Williams Member Public Policy Team Co-Chair Steering Committee Member 350 Sacramento 350 San Diego 350 Santa Barbara

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Nicole Kemeny Jack Eidt Baba Akili President Co-Founder Organizer 350 Silicon Valley 350 SoCal Black Lives Matters, LA

Eddie Ahn Al Weinrub RL Miller Member Coordinator Chair Brightline Defense California Alliance for Community California Democratic Party Energy environmental caucus

Jose Torres Igor Tregub Kevin Hamilton Energy Equity Program Manager Co-Chair Co-Director and Chief Executive Officer California Environmental Justice California Young Democrats Central California Asthma Collaborative Alliance

Michael Marx Jessica Craven Denise Boggs Corporate Ethics International Member Director Corporate Ethics International Feminists in Action Los Angeles Conservation Congress

Carmelita Miller Nancy Cottingham Christine Shewmaker Energy Equity Director Co-Chair Fossil Free California Greenlining Institute Hillcrest Indivisible-San Diego Fossil Free California

Sara Kennedy Sabra Briere Maureen Gupta Leadership team Communications Group Leader President Indivisible San Diego Persist Indivisible Sonoma County INDI2

John Lamb David S Diana Mielke Coordinator Steering committee member Indivisble CA State Strong Liaison Indivisible: Rapid Response Team SLO IndivisibleSF Indivisible South Bay LA

Dave Shukla Myron Collin Liore Milgrom-Gartner Operations Director President Northern California Director Long Beach Alliance for Clean Energy Long Beach Gray Panthers Interfaith Power & Light, California

Crystal Huang Judy Irving Chief Executive Officer Executive Director People Power Solar Cooperative Pelican Media

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Barbara Brass Hal Nelson Chance Cutrano Organizer Chief Executive Officer Director of Programs RATT Pack Residential Energy & Water Intelligence Resource Renewal Institute

Bart Ziegler Drew Feldmann Maya Butterfield President Conservation Chair Organizer Samuel Lawrence Foundation San Bernardino Valley Audubon Society Solidarity Sundays - Marin

Michael Eisenscher Elizabeth Milliken Jean Tepperman Publisher President & Chief Executive Officer Coordinator SolidarityINFOService Spottswoode Winery, Inc. Sunflower Alliance

Claire Donahue nicole levin Mateos Lozano Hub Coordinator Hub Coordinator Hub Coordinator Sunrise Movement L.A. Youth Sunrise Movement Los Angeles Sunrise Movement Salinas

Catalina Carbajal Ellie Cohen Malinda Dickenson Hub Coordinator Chief Executive Officer General Counsel Sunrise Movement University of San The Climate Center The Protect Our Communities Diego Foundation

Marylia Kelley Jack Kurzweil Anita Ghazarian Executive Director Administrative Coordinator Vice President Tri-Valley CAREs, Livermore, CA Wellatone Democratic Renewal Club Ban SUP

Nancy Halpern Ibrahim Executive Director Esperanza Community Housing Corporation

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COLORADO

Kat Wilson Micah Parkin Marie Venner Legislation & Policy Committee Executive Director Co-Chair The Climate Reality Project, Santa Clara 350 Colorado Call to Action CO

Marie Venner Dwayne Paul Co-Chair Director CatholicNetwork.US Collaborative Center for Justice

CONNETICUT

Sharon Lewis Executive Director Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice

DELAWARE John Sykes President Interfaith Power & Light, Delware

FLORIDA

Zelalem Adefris Natalie Gass Sarah Randolph VP of Policy & Advocacy Sustainability Coordinator Chairperson Catalyst Miami City of Dunedin Escambia County Democratic Environmental Caucus of Florida

Alex Easdale Enid Sisskin Donald Raper Managing Principal Director Member Forging Alliances, Inc. Gulf Coast Environmental Defense Helping Hero's

Yoca Arditi-Rocha Executive Director The CLEO Institute

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GEORGIA

Bobbie Paul Jairo Garcia Gordon Kenna Member Chair Public Works Atlanta Grandmothers for Peace Climate Reality Atlanta Chapter DeKalb County, GA

Bambie Hayes-Brown Helen Butler Brionte McCorkle President and Chief Executive Officer Executive Director Executive Director Georgia Advancing Communities Georgia Coalition for the People's Georgia Conservation Voters Together, Inc. Agenda

Deborah Scott Berneta Haynes Dr. Mildred McClain Executive Director Senior Director of Policy and Access Co-Founder / Executive Director Georgia Stand-Up Georgia Watch Harambee House/Citizens for Environmental Justice

Alex Trachtenberg Na'Taki Osborne Jelks Senior Project Manager West Atlanta Watershed Alliance, Inc. Southface Institute West Atlanta Watershed Alliance, Inc.

IDAHO

Holly Harris Executive Director Snake River Alliance

ILLINOIS

Alex McLeese Shanda-Joy Laws Robert Dean Steering Committee Member Founder & CEO Chief Executive Officer 350 Chicago Live Fresh Center for Neighborhood Technology

Lesley McCain Juliana Pino Nancy Loeb Member Policy Director Director and Clinical Associate Professor of Law Illinois Solar Energy Association Little Village Environmental Justice Organization Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

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INDIANA

Kim Knowles Kerwin Olson Dori Chandler Attorney & Policy Specialist Executive Director Public Policy Director Prairie Rivers Network Citizens Action Coalition of IN Interfaith Power & Light, Hoosier

Alex Jorck Whole Sun Designs Inc. Whole Sun Designs Inc.

IOWA

Jim Osterhaus Sandra Stanley Austin Britton Chairperson Board President Founder Clayton County Energy District Clean Air Muscatine Greater Lafayette Climate Synthesis

Mike Carberry Amy Bouska Adam Mason Founding Director Board chair State Policy Organizing Director Green State Solutions Howard County Energy District Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement

Jason Snell Hub Coorindator Sunrise Movement Cedar Rapids

KENTUCKY

Dawn Cooley Executive Director Interfaith Power & Light, Kentucky

Cassia Herron Ryan St. Clair Peter Hille Chairperson Member President Kentuckians For The Commonwealth Sunrise Bowling Green MACED

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LOUISIANA

Kristina Peterson Renate Heurich Logan Burke Facilitator Board Vice President Executive Director Lowlander Center 350 New Orleans Alliance for Affordable Energy

MAINE

Amy Eshoo Lawson Wulsin Scott Vlaun Program Manager Executive Director Executive Director 350 Maine A Climate to Thrive Center for an Ecology Based Economy

Kathleen Meil Samuel Zuckerman Sophie Janeway Director of Policy & Partnerships Owner Climate and Clean Energy Outreach Maine Conservation Voters Coordinator Maine Solar Solutions Natural Resources Council of Maine

Lore Rosenthal Kevin Zeese Program Coordinator Debra Gardner Member Greenbelt Climate Action Network Legal Director Popular Resistance Public Justice Center

William Webster Ruth White Chair, Climate Change Task Force Iris Zhan Advocacy Lead Unitarian Universalist Legislative Trainer Howard County Climate Action Ministry of Maryland Sunrise Movement Howard County

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MASSACHUSETTS

Carolyn Barthel Sarah Stewart Russell Aney Executive Committee Member President Chief Executive Officer 350 Massachusetts for a Better Future Animals Are Sentient Beings, Inc. Avid Solar LLC

Fran Ludwig Deborah Frieze Daniel Mello Guimaraes Chair President CEO & Co-Founder Boston Catholic Climate Movement Boston Impact Initiative Boston Solar

Chris Kilfoyle Cole Silva Richard Chase President Co-Chair Chase Systems BPVS Cape Cod Democratic Socialists of Chase Systems LLC America

Jen Stevenson Zepeda John Harris Adele Franks Deputy Director Co-Chair Steering Committee Climable.org Climate Action Brookline Climate Action Now, Western Massachusetts

canyon woodward Susan Worgaftik Maria Belen Power Harvard Alumni Organizer Forum Coordinator GreenRoots, Inc Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard Alumni Greening Greenfield GreenRoots, Inc

Eric Broadbent Betsy Smith Christopher Smith Steering Committee Coordinating Commiting Member Secretary/Chair Harvard Solar Gardens - Community Lower Cape Indivisible Massachusetts Solar Owners Assocation Solar Installation

Quincy Vale Mark Sandeen Mary O'Donnell President President Owner MassAmerican Energy LLC MassSolar No Fossil Fuel

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Gregory Garrison Douglas Denny-Brown Mark Sandeen President Co-Founder/General Counsel Managing Director Northeast Solar Design Associates PathZERO Energy, Inc. RePower Partners

James Michel Ben Underwood Brian Sadler Co-Founder Co-Chief Executive Officer Vice President Resist the Pipeline Resonant Energy RevoluSun

John Tourtelotte Megan Amsler Sarah Pick Managing Director Executive Director Home energy consultant Rivermoor Energy Self-Reliance Corporation SJP Environmental Consulting, LLC

Claire Chang Matthew Arner Craig Huntley Owner Senior Advisor Solect Energy Solar Store of Greenfield SolarFlair Solect Energy

Rob Meyers Mike Kocsmiersky Ben Mayer Director, Energy Technology & Principal VP Residential Engineering Spirit Solar Inc SunBug Solar South Mountain Company, Inc

Kathleen McTigue Phil Thayer Director, Activism & Justice Education Chair Unitarian Universalist Service SustainableBelmont.net Committee

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MICHIGAN Justin Schott Jessie Collins Charles Griffith Executive Director Co-Chair Climate and Energy Program Director EcoWorks Citizens' Resistance at Fermi Two Ecology Center (CRAFT)

Gregory Panzica Jackson Koeppel Adrian Laurenzi President Executive Director Hub Coordinator Peace Nick Soulardarity Sunrise Movement Detroit

Roslyn Ogburn John Freeman Candidate Executive Director Committee for Roslyn M. Ogburn for Great Lakes Renewable Energy State Representative 9th HD Association (GLREA)

MINNESOTA

Elizabeth Dickinson Julia Nerbonne Jean Ross Board Member Executive Director Board President Community Power Interfaith Power & Light, Minnesota Vote Climate

Erik Hatlestad Energy Democracy Program Director CURE

MISSISSIPPI

Rachel Mayes Dr. Charlotte L. Keys Catherine Robinson Executive Director Chief Executive Officer Program Manager Southern Echo Inc. JPAP One Voice Mississippi

MISSOURI

Don Dieckmann Director Better Building Institute Inc.

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MONTANA

Amy Cilimburg Jim Miller Brian Fadie Executive Director Member Clean Energy Program Director Climate Smart Missoula Friends of the Bitterroot Montana Environmental Information Center

Andrew Valainis Executive Director Montana Renewable Energy Association

NEW JERSEY William Kibler Elizabeth Ndoye Sally Jane Gellert Director of Policy Facilitator Member Raritan Headwaters MoveOn.org - HobokenRESIST Occupy Bergen County

Kim Gaddy Nedim Buyukmihci Director President South Ward Environmental Alliance Unexpected Wildlife Refuge

NEW MEXICO

Thomas Solomon Janet Greenwald Sister Joan Brown Co-Coordinator Coordinator Executive Director 350 New Mexico Citizens for Alternatives to Radioactive Interfaith Power and Light, New Mexico Dumping (CARD)

Susan Gordon Wendy Volkmann Mariel Nanasi Coordinator Co-Director Executive Director Multicultural Alliance for a Safe PNM Shareholders for a Responsible Environment New Energy Economy Future

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NEW YORK

Mimi Bluestone Andra Leimanis Eban Goodstein Co-Leader Communications & Outreach Director Director 350 Brooklyn Alliance for a Green Economy Bard Center for Environmental Policy

Adam Flint Mary Smith Susan H. Gillespie Director of Clean Energy Programs Communications Director President of the Board Binghamton Regional Sustainability Church Women United in New York Citizens for Local Power Coalition State

Charley Bowman Yvonne Taylor Eileen Coles Chair Vice President Founder Environmental Justice Task Force of the Gas Free Seneca Green Glen Cove WNY Peace Center

MannaJo Greene Lisa Tyson Elizabeth Broad Environmental Director Director Director Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. Long Island Progressive Coalition New Yorkers For Clean Power

Jonathan Bix Bill Nowak Gordian Raacke Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson Executive Director Executive Director Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson NY-GEO Renewable Energy Long Island (reLI)

Nancy Vann Joseph Campbell Mazeda A. Uddin President President Founder/CEO Safe Energy Rights Group (SEnRG) Seneca Lake Guardian South Asian Fund For Education, Scholarship and Training

Linda Reik Wes Ernsberger Nada Khader Member, Board of Directors Chair Executive Director Sullivan Alliance for Sustainable UU Congregation of Binghamton, Green WESPAC Development Sanctuary

Linda Parks Jerry Rivers Kerene Tayloe Founding Member Environmental Scientist Director of Federal Legislative Policy West Dryden Residents Against the North American Climate, Conservation WE ACT for Environmental Justice Pipeline and Environment (NACCE)

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NORTH CAROLINA

Chip VanNess Karen Bearden Steve Owen Member Member Co-Founder & Executive Director 350 Lake Norman 350 Triangle Appalachian Institute for Renewable Energy (AIRE)

Martha Girolami Esther Manheimer Danna Smith Member Mayor Executive Director Chatham Research Group City of Asheville Dogwood Alliance

Bobby Jones Liane Salgado Susannah Tuttle President Founder Director Down East Coal Ash Environmental and Golden Egg Permaculture Interfaith Power & Light, North Social Justice Coalition Carolina

Nancy LaPlaca Jodi Lasseter Eliza Stokes Principal Founder & Co-Convener Advocacy & Communications Associate LaPlaca and Associates LLC NC Climate Justice Collective MountainTrue

Ethan Fitzpatrick Alexis Luckey Sally Thames Product Architect Executive Director Member NC Solar Now Toxic Free NC Sunrise Movement Asheville

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OHIO

Jonathan Welle Leatra Harper Vina Colley Executive Director Managing Director President Cleveland Owns Fresh Water Accountability Project Portsmouth Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety and Security

OREGON

Clair Clark Diane Hodiak Linda Kelley Co-Coordinator Executive Director Member 350 Salem OR 350 Deschutes 350 Eugene

Reeves Clippard Simeon Jacob Lisa Arkin President and CEO Environmental Justice Coordinator Executive Director A&R Solar Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon Beyond Toxics

Elizabeth Graser-Lindsey Brendan Adamczyk Linda Craig Member Co-Director Representative Clackamas Climate Action Coalition Climate Justice League Community for Earth, First Unitarian Church of Portland

Catherine Thomasson Lynn Handlin Leonard Barrett Vice Chair Treasurer Co-President, Board of Directors Environmental Caucus Democratic Party Extinction Rebellion PDX Families for a Livable Climate of Oregon

Cherice Bock Rich Peppers Nora Apter Creation Justice Advocate Steering Committee Member Climate Program Director Interfaith Power & Light, Metro Climate Action Team, OLCV - Oregon Environmental Council Oregon/Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon Oregon

Doug Moore Angela Crowley-Koch Donnie Maclurcan Executive Director Executive Director Executive Director Oregon League of Conservation Voters Oregon Solar Energy Industries Post Growth Institute Association

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PENNSYLVANIA

Sharon Furlong David Hughes Cricket Hunter Spokesperson President Member Bucks Environmental Action Citizen Power, Inc. Interfaith Power & Light, Pennsylvania

Joan L Farb Jamila Medley Dwayne Royster Affiliate Leader Executive Director Executive Director Move to Amend- Lower Bucks Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance POWER: An Interfaith Movement

Michael Pisano Joylette Portlock Hub Coordinator Executive Director Sunrise Movement Pittsburgh Sustainable Pittsburgh

PUERTO RICO

Abel Vale President Ciudadanos Del Karso

SOUTH CAROLINA

David Oliver Dr. F. Taylor Dallas Conyers Member Coordinator Program Coordinator Columbia Friends Meeting (Quakers) of Hilton Head for Peace Interfaith Power & Light, South South Carolina Carolina

SOUTH DAKOTA

Mark Winegar Meg Jamison Chairman Executive Director Sierra Club South Dakota Southeast Sustainability Directors Network

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TENNESSEE

Ann League Jeffrey Barrie Duffy-Marie Arnoult Executive Director Chief Executive Officer Co-Chair SOCM Tennessee Environmental Council The Climate Reality Project: Memphis and Mid-South Regional Chapter

Isabella Killius Victoria Manning Organizer Direct action and political strategy lead Sunrise Movement Knoxville Sunrise Movement Nashville

TEXAS

Tricia Cortez Aaryaman Singhal Ishaan Sharma Executive Director Co-founder Sunrise Movement RGISC Inc dba Rio Grande Sunrise Movement Dallas Sunrise Movement San Antonio International Study Center

VIRGINIA

Miles Bedlan Garry Harris Lee Williams Hub Coordinator Managing Director Co-Director Sunrise Movement Wakeland Center for Sustainable Communities Green New Deal VA

Ed Kelly Eric Beck Queen Zakia Shabazz President Member Founder Shenandoah Energy Services Solar Design and Installation Company United Parents Against Lead & Other Environmental Hazards (UPAL)

Chad Oba Irene Leech Richard Walker President President Founder/CEO Friends of Buckingham Virginia Citizens Consumer Council Bridging The Gap In Virginia

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WASHINGTON

LeeAnne Beres Peggy Maze Johnson Kevin Jones Executive Director Board Member Board Member Earth Ministry/Interfaith Power & Heart of America NW Vashon Climate Action Group Light, Washington

WEST VIRGINIA

Jeff DeLuca Roseanna Sacco Vivian Stockman Executive Director President Executive Director WA State Community Action Preserve Monroe OVEC - Ohio Valley Environmental Partnership Coalition

Ted Boettner Linda Frame Executive Director President West Virginia Center on Budget and West Virginia Environmental Council Policy

WISCONSIN

Corey E. Olsen John Helt Tony Wilkin Gibart Owner/Activist Board President Executive Director CEO Pipe Organs/Golden Ponds Farm Interfaith Power and Light, Wisconsin Midwest Environmental Advocates

Susan Michetti Organizer Mt. Horeb Citizens Against Water Fluoridation

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