some highlights over the years –
Elected Officials to Protect America holds summits, webinars, press conferences regularly, attends conferences, and teaches to bring elected officials together to combat the climate crisis with empathy, science, vision, and support ground breaking policies.
E.O.P.A. Energy Security Summit 2025
About the Summit
On May 4-6 in Washington D.C., we joined fellow lawmakers and experts to protect our lands, waters, and democracy.
At the Summit we promoted the restoration and continuation of the climate investments in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), and ensure lawmakers on Capitol Hill understand the economic and national security implications of keeping them. Our press conference will feature elected officials who are also veterans to bring home the fact that investments in sustainable infrastructure and climate resiliency are key to our energy security. The Summit gathering helped foster strategic partnerships with elected officials, impact investors, and climate solution companies.
E.O.P.A. Electric Vehicle East Coast tour - 2024
In 2024, E.O.P.A. embarked on a 1,200-mile road trip from Albany, New York, to Atlanta, Georgia, with stops in New Jersey and Pennsylvania to build awareness and support for energy security solutions, specifically electric vehicles.
In each state we held a press conference and gave elected officials to opportunity to drive an electric vehicle. We gave out pamphlets to educate those in attendance on the realities of EVs. Our United for Health and Energy Security EV Tour highlighted transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. By transitioning to electric vehicles, we can reduce public health risks like asthma, emphysema and some cancers while becoming more energy secure. E.O.P.A. won two national awards for the tour. The Electric Vehicle Plug in America Award and Electric Vehicle National Association’s Award. We also highlighted why the EPA’s vehicle standards must be updated and that offshore wind is essential to feed enough electrical power to the grid so we all can eventually drive electric vehicles.
E.O.P.A. is planning on an EV tour for Western States.
Elected Officials to Protect America Virtual Offshore Wind Summit
On March 27, 2024 E.O.P.A hosed a offshore wind virtual summit. Federal, state, and local elected officials, as well as enviroment and industry representatives, and offshore wind experts spoke about the need for this key energy security solution to grow jobs, protect public health and mitigate the effects of extreme weather. The virtual summit also highlighted leasing, manufacturing, workforce development projects, supply chains, labor laws, prevailing wage, and environmental reviews to keep offshore wind moving forward to help communities, workers, the environment, and energy security.
The E.O.P.A. virtual Summit provided key educational information for elected officials in N.Y .and N.J.
D.C. Climate Emergency & Energy Security Summit in partnership with DOE 2023:
On November 16 we held a successful Summit in DC in partnership with the Department of Energy. We highlighted how the Inflation Reduction Act helps environmental justice communities, veteran owned businesses, and new technologies. We also had the opportunity to showcase energy security solutions. Read more about the Summit HERE.
“Connecting lawmakers, NGO’s, and clean energy companies, to create potential public-private partnerships is one of our goals at the summit as the IRA will help us accelerate and scale climate solutions. The IRA is already making our nation more secure – helping millions of families and hard working Americans,” said Alex Cornell du Houx, former Maine state Representative, Marine combat veteran, and President and Co-Founder of EOPA.
California Climate Emergency & Energy Security Summit:
At our December 5th, 2022 Inaugural EOPA California summit, hosted by the California Energy Commission, a range of experts discussed how transitioning to a 100% clean energy economy is key to California’s prosperity with an transition from fossil fuels. Offshore wind farms would help accelerate the process and realize the state’s clean energy goals. David Chiu, San Francisco City Attorney, former CA Assemblyman, is the co-author of the CA offshore wind law and was our keynote speaker, who delivered a rising speech and said offshore wind’s buildout, “must be equitable, affordable and sustainable.” Please listen HERE.
- Learn more about the California Climate Emergency & Energy Security Summit of 2022 here, and its speakers here.
D.C. Climate Emergency & Energy Security Summit 2022:
At the Elected Officials to Protect America annual D.C. Climate Emergency & Energy Security Summit on August 15, over 450 elected officials from across the country were briefed by the White House and Department of Energy. EOPA also showcased exciting clean energy solutions. Officials from the White House who spoke to participants at the EOPA Climate Emergency & Energy Security SummitThe DOE is a major agency that will help implement the IRA.
Ron Pierce, U.S. DOE Director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, hosted EOPA at the DOE and spoke along with his esteemed colleagues. Jigar Shah, the DOE Director of the Loan Programs Office was another keynote speaker. Shah is notable for gaining prominence as an American clean energy entrepreneur, and author. Shaw set the stage when he remarked that the IRA was a huge deal but said in order to solve the climate crisis on the scale needed the investments have to be, “a trillion dollar scale.” He encouraged public-private partnerships to make it happen.
- Learn more about the Washington D.C. Climate Emergency & Energy Security Summit of 2022 here, with its press event here.
NEWS:
Read about us in the press HERE.
Additionally, EOPA has a Certificate in Public Leadership and a Masters program in partnership with the University of San Francisco. Students learn about the importance of emotional intelligence in public leadership to cyber security, body language, disinformation, how to film videos, debate climate issues and much more.
The program’s aim is to advance participants’ ability to further the public good while implementing policy solutions. More here.
Here's a video clip of David Chiu, San Francisco City Attorney, former CA Assemblyman speaking at our CA Climate Emergency and Energy Security Summit on the importance of offshore wind