Current Campaigns

SELP’s multi-state campaigns coalesce action on issues that affect several states where coordinated state-level response is essential.  Current campaigns include:

Federal Budget and Grasstops Program

The Federal Budget project emphasizes the importance of federal funding for state environmental and conservation programs. SELP member groups partner with other progressive organizations to advocate for more domestic discretionary spending to fund environmental programs, workforce development, and child and family services. Current SELP participants are: Arkansas Public Policy Panel, Planning and Conservation League, Colorado Environmental Coalition, Iowa Environmental Council, Minnesota Environmental Partnership, North Carolina Conservation Network, Ohio Environmental Council and Oregon Environmental Council. For more information contact Hilary Carroll, hcarroll at selp.org.

Mercury Products Campaign

The goal of this campaign is to phase out mercury use in products and minimize releases into the environment.  This campaign involves twenty-four state and three national advocacy organizations working together to reduce and eliminate several of the largest product uses and releases of mercury –in thermostats and other switches, relays and measuring devices, and in dental offices.  By working together in a strategic manner, we are collectively promoting bans on the sale and collection of existing products containing mercury in key states.   

Non-mercury alternatives exist, and a number of states have already phased out mercury products.  Through promoting policies at the state level, we are applying economic pressure on manufacturers to reach “the tipping point,” where enough states ban products so the U.S. market for those products ultimately disappears.  For more information on this campaign, contact Executive Director Bill Davis, bdavis at selp.org. 

Global Warming

The Great Lakes Global Warming campaign is an effort to take an impressive amount of work going on in the region and better focus it.  This project involves coordinating with efforts already in play as well as bringing new participants into the arena.  In 2008 we completed the draft campaign plan and engaged a set of groups to take ownership of the campaign.  For more information on our Global Warming Campaign, contact Executive Director Bill Davis, bdavis at selp.org.