CAPA works with local activists and partners to urge lawmakers at the local, state and national levels to enact policies that reflect the urgency of the climate crisis. We organize programs of public education on climate issues, and have focused on making the connections between militarism and climate chaos.

We continue to arrange meetings with our elected Federal and State, House and Senate representatives, establish coalitions with other like minded organizations, draft letters to key political decision makers, and letters to the editor. We write and distribute materials to all CAPA members to help them amplify our concerns. Our members have participated in demonstrations locally, in New York City and Washington, DC.

We work to achieve our goals with coalition partners, among them Climate Action Evanston, 350 Chicago, SOIL, E-Town Sunrise, Fridays For Future, Third Act, Extinction Rebellion Chicago and Stop the Money Pipeline.
We have targeted the four largest banks funding the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure, particularly Enbridge’s Lines 3 and 5, Mountain Valley Pipeline and proposed CO2 projects in Illinois.

We acknowledge the historic positive climate policies of the current administration, but nevertheless urge President Biden to declare a Climate Emergency because the transition to renewable energy needs to accelerate. We work to support new methane regulations and we lobby our elected officials to become co-sponsors of the Earth Bill.

Legislative and policy priorities on which we have concentrated:

• • • *Pass the Earth Bill to mandate a just transition by 2030 to renewable energy generation, to zero emission new vehicle sales, and to encourage regenerative agriculture.

    • *Make faster progress on methane reduction.

    • *Make permanent the Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) infrastructure “pause”.

    • *Reduce Pentagon spending for war preparations and use the funds to attack the climate catastrophe.

    • *Revoke tax subsidies from fossil fuel corporations and use the funds to accelerate utilization of heat pumps and solar and wind energy.

    • *Revoke funding for the unproven pipe dream of carbon capture and storage and related C02 pipelines.

    • *Establish energy efficiency programs to provide conservation incentives for buildings and transportation.

    • “Because if we don’t break the momentum of the warming then it will build unstoppably on itself—and that will foreclose all kinds of options.” Bill McKibben