📣 WRA is #hiring! We have an opening on our team for an Annual Fund Manager. Join our team! https://lnkd.in/gF9v54BE About WRA: WRA fights climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. We respect the different needs of diverse people and partner with them to develop a shared vision for progress—one that advances communities while protecting biodiversity. For more information about our open jobs, benefits, and work culture, visit https://bit.ly/wracareer.
Western Resource Advocates
Non-profit Organizations
Boulder, CO 6,004 followers
Driving on-the-ground solutions to climate change.
About us
Western Resource Advocates fights climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. We respect the different needs of diverse people and partner with them to develop a shared vision for progress — one that advances communities while protecting biodiversity. Our team of policy experts, scientists, economists, and attorneys has a 30-year history of working where decisions are made, sweating the details, creating evidence-based solutions, and holding decisionmakers accountable. This on-the-ground work with policymakers and other advocates advances clean energy, protects air, land, water, and wildlife — and sustains the lives and livelihoods of the West. The climate issues facing the West are what WRA focuses on each and every day — at air quality boards who address air pollution, at public utility commissions who are managing the clean energy transition, in state legislatures and at state agencies where land and wildlife issues are deliberated. All comments on WRA posts are subject to review by the WRA team and may be removed at the team’s discretion. We reserve the right to moderate our comments section, replies, fan and follower lists, and posts to our pages as we see fit, and remove any comment for any reason we deem appropriate. https://westernresourceadvocates.org/social-media-comment-policy/
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- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Boulder, CO
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1989
- Specialties
- Environment, Policy, Conservation, Education, Research, Advocacy, and Science
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This election year, we have the opportunity to vote for climate leaders all the way down the ballot. Electing candidates that will work to protect our environment and local communities is a critical step in the fight against climate change. Finding out if candidates in the running will take real action on climate change can feel challenging, so we compiled this list of questions to ask your candidates and help guide your research this election year. https://bit.ly/3SGWZGe
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"Tucson Electric Power Co. and Arizona’s other major utilities have big plans on how to best supply increasing demand for electricity, as they shift away from the coal-fired power plants that largely powered the state for decades." 🔽Read more here🔽 https://bit.ly/3SFkJKM
Tucson Electric defends long-term power plans as it shifts away from coal
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"Drought, flash floods, water shortages, increased heat — those are some of the local effects of climate change, as enumerated by George Cavros, the Nevada clean energy manager and senior attorney for WRA. He credits Clark County for taking steps to address some of them. “They developed an inventory to identify where carbon is coming from regionally, engaged the community on solutions, and developed pathways to implementing those solutions.” https://bit.ly/3YvUWby
It's All Connected
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“Some might see a flooded river and think, Oh this is annoying, or I can’t mountain bike on this path because it’s wet,' says Anjali Bean, a senior policy advisor on rivers for WRA. 'But try being able to enjoy the floodwaters for what they represent.” 🔽Read the full article below🔽 https://bit.ly/4duNz8K
Discover New Mexico's Best Water Activities
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Western rivers are thriving even in the face of climate change. Rivers support the ecosystems, communities, and water recreation economies of the west. Everyone in the west benefits from heathy, thriving rivers. How do you enjoy your local waterways?
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We're keeping the communities impacted by wildfires in Colorado, and across the West, in our thoughts. At WRA, we work to develop smart policies that increase Western communities and ecosystems' resilience to wildfire. We hope our partners in this work, some of whom are responding to these fires, and the communities that some of our team at WRA call home stay safe.
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Western Resource Advocates works on policies to ensure our communities thrive in balance with nature. This includes using policy and advocacy to ensure that effective tools like prescribed fire can be used by communities and natural resource managers when appropriate to increase resilience to wildfire. WRA Policy Advisor Brendan Witt presented to the Colorado State Legislatures' Wildfire Matters Review Committee along with partners from The Nature Conservancy in Colorado and FIRE ADAPTED COLORADO. Brendan and partners presented on the benefits of prescribed fire for forest ecosystems and Western communities, as well as on the barriers that inhibit prescribed fire use in Colorado, and potential policy solutions to overcome them. We thank our partners for their expertise and look forward to working with legislators and decisionmakers to craft solutions that increase Colorado's resilience to the ever-present and growing threat of catastrophic wildfire.
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“Clean-air advocates in Colorado are celebrating new EPA standards, which they believe can play a major role in reducing air pollution impacting national parks and Colorado's Front Range communities. The EPA projects that the rule will create $100 billion in benefits each year, including $13 billion in health-care savings due to improved air quality.” ⬇️ Read more here⬇️ https://bit.ly/3WjBEDA
EPA clean-car standards projected to bring $100B annual benefits
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