Your weekly resource to learn what the environmental movement is saying about the news of the day and the political fight of our generation.

As we prepare for 2025, we’re taking a look back at the biggest wins of 2024 that highlight the amazing things this movement can accomplish to inspire us to keep fighting in the year ahead.

This month we’re looking back at the most read stories from 2024. Our readers honed in on the climate action made possible by federal investments, states’ clean energy progress, clean school buses, and state democracy wins. You’ll also learn about a recent major clean energy victory in Massachusetts.

Your weekly resource to learn what the environmental movement is saying about the news of the day and the political fight of our generation.

In 2024, states continued to enact ambitious policies driving the U.S. transition to clean energy. In the League of Conservation Voters’ (LCV) latest annual Clean Energy For All: Clean Energy Success in the States report, we detail how 31 states made exciting clean energy progress in 2024 led by our affiliated organizations in the Conservation Voters Movement.

Yesterday, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced its approval of the Construction and Operations Plan (COP) for the Maryland Offshore Wind project. This milestone represents the final federal approval needed for the project, which will generate over 2 GW of offshore wind energy—enough to power over 718,000 homes—and support almost 2,680 jobs annually over seven years.

Yesterday, the Massachusetts legislature passed a landmark climate omnibus bill, reestablishing the state as a climate leader.