Follow the Leaders: The State AG Role in U.S. Climate Progress
- Wednesday, April 21, 2021
- Online Event
The State Impact Center and state AGs held conversation about the vital role that states and AGs play in the U.S. response to the climate crisis.
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, New York Attorney General Letitia James and Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul discussed their work defending their states’ policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions, as well as the public health and economic benefits of those policies. The AGs also explored how the federal government can and should affirmatively support state-level climate policies and programs.
Speakers
Justin Pidot
General Counsel at the White House Council on Environmental Quality
AG William Tong
Connecticut Attorney General
AG Brian Frosh
Former Maryland Attorney General
Brian Frosh served as Maryland’s 46th Attorney General from 2015 to 2023. During his two terms AG, Brian Frosh worked to ensure fairness, equality and justice for all Marylanders. Prior to being elected AG, he had been an attorney in private practice since 1976.
AG Keith Ellison
Minnesota Attorney General
Keith Ellison was sworn in as Minnesota’s 30th attorney general on January 7, 2019. As the People’s Lawyer, Attorney General Ellison’s job is to help Minnesotans afford their lives and live with dignity, safety, and respect. His guiding values are generosity and inclusion. From 2007 to 2019, Keith Ellison represented Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he championed consumer, worker, environmental, and civil- and human-rights protections for Minnesotans. Attorney General Ellison received his law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1990. He is the first African American and the first Muslim American to be elected to statewide office in Minnesota.
AG Letitia James
New York Attorney General
AG Josh Kaul
Wisconsin Attorney General