Why I Urged the EPA to Limit Carbon Pollution – And Why You Should, Too (Blog) 8/4/2014 EDITORIAL NOTE: This guest blog post was written by Joyce Lanning, member of the LWVUS Climate Change Task Force and Board member of the League…
Why We Must Revitalize the Voting Rights Act Upon Its 49th Anniversary (Blog) 8/1/2014 EDITORIAL NOTE: This blog post was originally posted on President Elisabeth MacNamara's Huffington Post blog. Next week marks the 49th…
Raising Our Voices to Stop Climate Change (Blog) 7/30/2014 Congress will recess in a few days, but the League of Women Voters remains hard at work. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is holding…
League Submits Comments to EPA Regarding Clean Power Plan (Article) 7/29/2014 President MacNamara delivered comments on the Clean Power Plan on behalf of LWVUS at the EPA’s public hearing in Atlanta. The comments commend the…
Don't Miss Out On Important Elections - Update Your Voter Registration Record! (Blog) 7/29/2014 Last year alone, an estimated 36 million Americans, or about 11 percent of the U.S. population, moved homes. If you’re one of these individuals, you…
Protecting Voters, Restoring Democracy (Blog) 7/28/2014 Editorial Note: This blog post was written by the League's summer interns, Lily Klein-Evans, Claudia Maisch and Hana Migliorato Earlier this month,…
Why I Helped Register Young Voters (Blog) 7/25/2014 The 2012 election was the first major election in which I could vote. I had turned 19, and I was in my third month as a freshman at Tufts University…
How the League Helps Ensure Voting Access for Americans with Disabilities (Blog) 7/25/2014 This weekend marks 24 years since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the landmark civil rights law that prohibits…
How My Parents Inspired Me to Vote (Blog) 7/24/2014 I learned about the importance of voting from my parents. Immigrants from Peru, my parents never fail to vote in the elections for their home country…
Leagues and Redistricting Reform: Creating Representative Districts (Blog) 7/18/2014 Late last week, a Florida Circuit Court threw out the Congressional maps in Florida, drawn by the state legislature and adopted in 2012. The judge…