2025 Advocacy
On June 11, 2025, join California Interfaith Power & Light and communities of faith from across the state for our annual Advocacy Day at the California State Capitol in Sacramento. You can apply here.
This year’s theme, “Faith in Action for a Livable Future,” reflects our shared commitment to turning fear into courage, grief into justice, and despair into action. At a time when our federal administration is attacking Creation full on, we come together as people of many faiths to proclaim that a better future is possible—and to call on our elected leaders to act with boldness and moral clarity.
We are still deciding on our priority legislation but do know we will be joining hundreds of climate advocacy groups in pushing for Polluters Pay Climate Superfund AB 1243 (Addis). You can learn more here.
UPDATE: Both Sen. Menjivar’s SB 684 and Asm. Addis’ AB 1243 have been pulled for further study.
2024 Advocacy
Our virtual lobby day is scheduled for August 14th. Please register here if you are interested in joining us. We will begin setting up meetings with your representatives. Send questions to gregory@www2.interfaithpower.net
In person lobby day recap:
Our June 4th lobby day in Sacramento was a huge success. We brought faith advocates from across California to Sacramento to speak climate truth to power. Our priority legislation included bills to increase affordability of electric cars, to ban plastic bags, to divest public pension funds from fossil fuels, to amend the state Constitution to declare that the people have a right to clean air and water and a healthy environment; and to invest $10 billion in climate protection and resilience, with over 40% going directly to disadvantaged communities.
2023 Advocacy
Congress: Pass a Farm Bill!
Far too many people experience hunger in our wealthy nation—including 12 million children who are food insecure. And around the world, the number of people who are severely hungry has increased by 33 percent. Climate change threatens to increase these numbers–as global temperatures and extreme weather events rise, the conditions make it more difficult for farmers to grow food and for those facing hunger to get it. Our current agricultural system contributes to these joint crises—prioritizing corporations’ profits over people and our planet.
The 2023 Farm Bill is a critical opportunity to improve food security and nutrition for people and promote climate resilience in the U.S. and across the world . As Congress begins working on this important legislation, we must urge them to prioritize the needs of our communities and the climate, not corporate profit margins.
In 2023 we focused on five priority bills in California. Three of the five have now been signed into legislation:
- AB 631 (Hart) – Oil and gas: enforcement penalties
- AB 579 (Ting) – Electric School Busses
- SB 49 (Becker) – Solar parking lots (got cut) and highways
You can read the full report about our lobby days and all of our wins here!