At Offsets for Humanity, we want to put money in the hands of people who are working every day to protect human and civil rights and the health of the planet and who know how to do it.
They just need our help.
At Offsets for Humanity, we want to put money in the hands of people who are working every day to protect human and civil rights and the health of the planet and who know how to do it.
They just need our help.
Alabama was a slave state with polices that harken back to those bad days.
Alabama is one of the most biologically rich states in the country and its natural resources are under threat.
Alabama is the epicenter of anti LGBTQ+ rights including Don’t Say Gay laws.
In 2023, Alabama harmed Black voters by trying to redistrict them out of power.
In 2024 Alabama put to death an inmate using nitrogen hypoxia, a practice that isn’t allowed for dogs.
Alaska has very few good gun policies in place and suffers one of the highest rates of gun deaths in the nation.
Large disparities in data sharing means a disproportionate number of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls go unfound.
Mass incarceration of people of color, prison conditions, an increase in the use of isolation are just some of the reasons for prison reform including in Alaska where a record 18 people died in their state prisons last year.
Alaskan chinook (king) salmon are in record breaking decline and need protection now.
Multiple mining operations risk the lives of wildlife and water quality in Alaska where extraction is big business and too often wins.
Now that the Supreme Court has overthrown Roe V. Wade, Arizona’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks is in effect.
The death penalty in Arizona was on hold by executive action until May 2022 when they started executing people again.
Some 90,000 members of the Navajo nation are underhoused or unhoused, and another 60,000 don’t have water in their homes.
The Sonoran Desert and it wildlife are under threat from development, mining, grazing, invasive species, rerouting rivers, and climate change.
Detained immigrants in Arizona do not have a right to public defenders and people in poverty often go without legal representation.
As book banning proliferates, librarians in Arkansas have been at risk of persecution for giving books to minors if the state deems them harmful.
Northwestern Arkansas is growing rapidly, with development impacting unique and sensitive wildlife habitats.
Now that the Supreme Court has overthrown Roe V. Wade, abortion is completely banned in Arkansas with very limited exceptions.
Arkansas is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country.
Voting in Arkansas was made considerably more difficult including stricter ID requirements, signature matching, and earlier absentee voting deadlines.
Two thirds of the people experiencing homelessness in California are unsheltered and the high cost of living in many cities makes it worse.
Decades of fire suppression is causing blazes to burn hotter and under more hostile conditions, destroying once fire resistant forests, and a condition made worse by the climate crisis.
Urbanization interrupts what used to be large areas of wildlife habitat leaving smaller unconnected areas that limit food, shelter, and reproductive success for terrestrial wildlife species.
Plastic pollution, which carries toxins that harm people too, is killing California’s ocean wildlife including sea turtles, whales, seabirds and fish, and destroying once pristine coastal environments.
More than half the 400,000 farm workers in California are undocumented making them even more vulnerable to harsh conditions such as dangerous heat and employer retaliation for reporting broken laws.
Restoring timber wolves to the Western slope would provide immensely positive ecological, economic, and social opportunities for Coloradans, the overall ecosystem, and the wolves themselves.
Barely managed runoff from tens of thousands active and abandoned mines, containing high levels of heavy metals, is a terrible source of drinking and surface water pollution.
Decades of fire suppression is causing blazes to burn hotter and under more hostile conditions, destroying once fire resistant forests and is a condition made worse by the climate crisis.
Chronic homelessness increased by 130% in recent years in Colorado and the high cost of living in many cities makes it worse.
Colorado’s 19th century water right laws cause problems compounded by the shift in water use and needs, plus the climate crisis which contributes to too much or too little precipitation.
The Connecticut River still suffers from habitat loss, water pollution, disconnection and undersized road stream crossings challenging fish and other wildlife.
Mass incarceration of people of color, prison conditions, polluted water, an increase in the use of isolation are just some of the reason for prison reform including in Connecticut.
Once abundant in Connecticut’s forests, just 100 moose currently live in Connecticut who are under threat from habitat loss and the climate crisis.
Federal law requires the repatriation of human remains yet at least five major institutions in Connecticut including Yale have failed to do it.
Roughly 85% of Connecticut homes burn fossil fuels for heating with oil, methane, and propane combined.
Delaware currently has five water systems with detections above the new PFAS limits, impacting over a 25% of the people in the state, 100,000 of them in the Wilmington Area alone.
The ultimate survival of the ancient horseshoe crab depends upon preservation of its spawning habitat including on Delaware’s beaches.
Youth are too often taken into custody in Delaware when restorative justice programs such as School Offence Diversion can help them instead.
Plastic pollution, which carries toxins that harm people too, is killing Delaware’s ocean wildlife including sea turtles, whales, seabirds and fish, and destroying once pristine coastal environments.
Racism, xenophobia, and related discrimination exist in all society and harms the lives of this who endure it and society as a whole.
Florida is among the top 15 American states with polices that actively discriminate against LGBTQ+ people including Don’t Say Gay.
West Indian manatees need protection from habitat and food loss, boat collisions, water temperature rise, pollution, and litter entanglements including fishing line.
Florida is set to roll back child labor protections that prevent teenagers from working unlimited hours even on school nights.
Florida is among the US states that still allows the death penalty which is banned in every other western industrialized country.
Controversial changes to Florida school curricula and fear of critical race theory serve to erase the truth of Black history from schools.
Georgia is among the US states that still allows the death penalty which is banned in every other western industrialized country.
Oceanfront development, plastic pollution, and habitat loss are devastating to sea turtles in Georgia including the highly endangered Kemp’s Ridley.
Mass incarceration of people of color, prison conditions, polluted water, an increase in the use of isolation are just some of the reasons for prison reform including in Georgia.
Georgia has some of the weakest gun laws in the country and a Shoot First law that allows a person to kill another in a public area, even when they can safely walk away from the danger.
Georgia is the epicenter in attacks on voting rights and gerrymandering against equal voting.
With some of the strongest gun laws in the country, Hawaii has one of the lowest rates of gun ownership and death from guns, and holds gun industry members accountable when their actions result in harm.
Mobuild rays are being caught for the highly disputed Asian homeopathic medication market, and are also dumped as bycatch.
With so much of the islands already overrun by the tourism, Hawaii needs protections to control development and the impacts from the travel industry.
For too long Hawaiian culture and traditions have been hijacked, misappropriated, and treated with disrespect.
Plastic pollution, which carries toxins that harm people too, is killing Hawaii’s ocean wildlife including sea turtles, whales, seabirds and fish and destroying once pristine coastal environments.
Since Roe V. Wade was overturned, abortion is completely banned with very limited exceptions.
Idaho is one of the top 15 states with major book bans in schools.
Idaho encourages killing wolves and grizzlies even by helicopter, placing a state paid bounty on wolves and employing workarounds on national protections.
Idaho is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country, and reauthorized the use of firing squads.
Idaho has among the worst gun laws in the country, with high gun suicides rates, household firearm ownership, a Shoot First law, and a guns-on-campus mandate.
Racism, xenophobia, and related discrimination exist in all society and harms the lives of this who endure it and society as a whole.
One of the most densely populated places in the country, Cook County is blessed with 70,000 acres of forest preserve which need restoration and protection.
Illinois is working to expand gun controls and is third in the country for gun law strength.
Mass incarceration of people of color, prison conditions, polluted water, an increase in the use of isolation are just some of the reasons for prison reform including in Illinois.
Designed into Chicago’s sewer system in the 1850s, the recovering Chicago-Calumet River is a haven for people and wildlife and protective rules governing use still need to be enforced.
Racism, xenophobia, and related discrimination exist in all society and harms the lives of this who endure it and society as a whole.
The Indiana Dunes is the fourth most biodiverse national park and needs restoration and protection.
Indiana is in the top 10 of states in the nation for rates of infant mortality.
Indiana is among the top 15 American states with polices that actively discriminate against LGBTQ+ people.
Indiana is among the US states that still allows the death penalty which is banned in every other western industrialized country.
Iowa allows law enforcement to arrest undocumented immigrants for being suspected of being illegal.
Iowa limits voting access including early voting, absentee voting, and voting by mail.
Since Roe V. Wade was overturned, abortion is banned after 22 weeks in Iowa and patients are forced to get ultrasounds even if medically unnecessary.
Iowa is trying to lift protections to let children work in hazardous setting while granting employer immunity in civil liability cases for workplace injuries.
Agricultural runoff is a severe source of water pollution, with excess nutrients killing fish and other aquatic life all the way downstream to the Gulf of Mexico.
Police raids on the homes of employees of the Marion County Record interferes with First Amendment news gathering.
Kansas is one of the top 15 states with major book bans in schools.
Kansas aims to disenfranchise voters including through the attempt to prohibit counties from their practice of proactively mailing ballots applications.
Kansas is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country.
Kansas suffers gun violence rates above the national average and 18- to 20-year-olds are allowed to carry concealed, loaded handguns in public without a permit, including on college and university campuses.
Kentucky has the least amount of protected land in the country, and needs wildlife corridors and more protected natural areas.
Mountain top mining and coal mines have had a devastating effect on the health of people and the landscape in Kentucky.
Kentucky is in the top 10 for child poverty and ranks low for health support for children.
Kentucky is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country
Kentucky’s gun laws are among the worst in the United States and the state has one of the higher rates of gun violence in the country.
Louisiana is in the top 10 states for child poverty and ranks low for health support for children.
A century of degradation and rising seas put Louisiana’s fragile coastal ecosystem at risk, polluting bayous with saltwater and washing the land away.
Mass incarceration of people of color, prison conditions, polluted water, and an increase in the use of isolation are just some for prison reform including in Louisiana which has the nation’s highest incarceration rate.
Louisiana is among the top 15 American states with polices that actively discriminate against LGBTQ+ people.
Louisiana is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country, including by nitrogen hypoxia which is not allowed for dogs.
Longer falls and warmer winters mean ticks are killing moose and their unborn calves at record rates.
Too many women are marginalized and need support to secure health care, economic justice, and protection from violence.
Climate change, habitat loss, and ocean plastic pollution put puffins at great risk.
Maine has very few foundational gun safety laws and a high rate of suicide by gun.
Too often youth in Maine are taken into custody and have their lives destroyed when restorative justice programs could help them instead.
Food insecurity is among the major problems in Baltimore which is driven by household income, race, and poverty status.
Mass incarceration of people of color, prison conditions, polluted water, and an increase in the use of isolation are just some of the reasons for prison reform including in Maryland which employs the use of for-profit prisons.
Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States and needs restoration and protection from urban runoff, nutrient pollution, and habitat degradation.
Maryland fails to inform the mostly black people leaving prison that their voting rights have been restored.
Maryland has good gun laws but continues to have an unacceptable rate of gun deaths near the national average, disproportionately impacting communities of color in Baltimore.
Massachusetts ranks second in the country for the distribution of the white supremacy propaganda.
The smallest and most endangered sea turtle in the world, the Kemps’ Ridley, is also the most common turtle found cold-stunned on Massachusetts bayside beaches.
Plastic pollution, which carries toxins that harm people too, is killing Massachusetts’ ocean wildlife including sea turtles, whales, seabirds and fish and destroying once pristine coastal environments.
Massachusetts has among the strongest gun laws in the country and one of the lowest rate of gun deaths.
The Connecticut River suffers from habitat loss, water pollution, disconnection and undersized road stream crossings challenging fish and other wildlife.
Michigan is one of the top 15 states with major book bans in schools.
More than 17 percent of the children in Michigan live below the federal poverty line.
A Canadian oil company is trespassing on tribal land in Michigan owned by an Ojibwe group.
Michigan ranks fourth in the country for the distribution of the white supremacy propaganda.
Michigan doesn’t legally recognize the second parent in adoption cases for LGBTQ+ people putting the children and families at risk.
Nitrate-fouled water from concentrated animal feed operations in Minnesota causes a host of medical problems and water pollution.
In a national trend to reduce protections for children, Minnesota wants to allow 16 and 17 years old to work on construction sites.
Black and Indigenous pregnant Minnesotans have long faced more health disparities than their white counterparts.
Heavier rains and a rise in black flies makes nesting more challenging for the common loon putting them at great risk.
The Boundary Waters’ million+ acres of pristine forest, lakes, and streams are under constant pressure from mining and development.
Unlike most US states, Mississippi does not consider animal cruelty as a felony.
Mississippi is one of the top 15 states with major book bans in schools.
Mass incarceration of people of color, prison conditions, polluted water, and an increase in the use of isolation are just some of the reasons for prison reform including in Mississippi.
Mississippi is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country, including by nitrogen hypoxia and fire squad.
With some of the weakest gun laws in the country and a high percentage of household firearm ownership, Mississippi has the highest rate of gun related deaths in the nation.
Less than 65,000 acres of prairie remain from the once 13 million in Missouri, grasslands that support an amazing array of wildlife including federally endangered prairie chickens.
With the overturn of Roe V. Wade, abortion is completely banned in Missouri with very limited exceptions, and providers are required to prove in court an abortion is legal.
Missouri is among the top 15 American states with polices that actively discriminate against LGBTQ+ people.
Missouri is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country
Missouri has one of the highest rates of gun deaths, gun homicide rates, and household firearm ownership, and St. Louis is among the top US cities with the highest gun murder rates in the country.
The Montana Supreme Court had to rule against two state laws that meant to purposely hinder Native Americans from voting.
Montana is among the top 15 American states with polices that actively discriminate against LGBTQ+ people.
The federal government is not doing enough to protect timber wolves and in Montana hunters and poachers are obliterating them in unprecedented ways including those considered torture.
Montana is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country.
Montana has among the worst gun laws in the country; an especially high rate of household firearm ownership, gun deaths, and suicides; and colleges and universities are forced to allow guns on their campuses.
Approximately 2% of Nebraska’s prairie remains and the remnants of this crucial ecosystem need to be protected, connected, and restored.
In Nebraska, children are working in slaughterhouses and a bill for sub-minimum wages was introduced.
With the overturn of Roe. V Wade, abortion is banned after 12 weeks in Nebraska and patients are forced to receive counseling.
Nebraska is among the top American states without protective polices for LGBTQ+ people.
Nebraska is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country.
Nevada falls at number 48 on the economic well-being of their children with 19% of them living in poverty.
Every year, the federal government poisons, traps, and guns down as many as two million animals including otters, foxes, and coyotes who are much needed predators, at the request of a minority of ranching and agricultural interests.
Nevada is among the Western states with the greatest loss in groundwater, putting pressure on public and ecosystem health.
Native Americans are fighting against a lithium mine targeted for a sacred site in northern Nevada where a brutal massacre by US soldiers took place in 1865.
Nevada is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country.
The shortnose sturgeon is federally endangered and extirpated from most of its historic range from Florida to Canada because of habitat degradation such as dams, dredging, and water pollution.
High levels of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found in New Hampshire soil samples raise questions about food and water pollution.
New Hampshire maintains a moratorium on bobcat hunting when Maine, Massachusetts, and Vermont allow it.
New Hampshire rolled back child labor protections that prevent teenagers from working unlimited hours even on school nights.
New Hampshire’s weak gun laws put it in the “national failures” category of gun law strength, making it an outlier in its region. Its neighboring states’ good gun control is a partial explanation for New Hampshire’s low gun violence rate.
An increasing number of whales, whose populations are still recovering from centuries of hunting, are ending up dead on beaches in New Jersey and other coastal states.
Mass incarceration of people of color, prison conditions, polluted water, and an increase in the use of isolation are just some of the reasons for prison reform including in New Jersey where treatable diseases are often ignored.
New Jersey has among the strongest gun laws in the United States with has one of the lowest rates of firearm deaths and firearm ownership in the country.
New Jersey has some of the highest income inequity in the country which is associated with decreased life expectancy, educational attainment, and infant mortality.
Black women in New Jersey have a much greater rate of maternal mortality than white women.
The Biden Administration raised the rate for oil and gas extraction on public lands including in New Mexico.
Ninety-three federally endangered, threatened and candidate species are at risk from the border wall and related infrastructure including jaguars and ocelots whose crucial migration are being blocked.
New Mexico ranks 46 in income inequality which contributes to decreased lifespans, educational attainment, and is associated with infant mortality.
Every year, the federal government poisons, traps, and guns down as many as two million animals including otters, foxes, and coyotes who are much needed predators, at the request of a minority of ranching and agricultural interests.
New Mexico ranks last in child welfare including economic well-being and education.
An increasing number of whales, whose populations are still recovering from centuries of hunting, are ending up dead on beaches in New York and other coastal states.
Urbanization interrupts what used to be large areas of wildlife habitat leaving smaller unconnected areas that limit food, shelter, and successful reproduction.
Eelgrass provides some of the world’s most important habitat for an incredible array of ocean species and the water off the coast of New York is warming too fast for it to adapt.
New York has the second-strongest gun laws in the country, with one of the lowest rates of gun violence and gun ownership, and now has a gun industry liability law intended to hold gun manufacturers and dealers accountable.
Nearly half of the people in New York live with disproportionate burdens from pollution especially Black and Hispanic people who are also the most effected by the dangers of heat due to the climate crisis.
Coyotes are in the cross hairs in North Carolina even though they serve a crucial role in limiting the white tailed deep population.
North Carolina is among the US states where discussions about racism are being banned especially in government and academia.
North Carolina has seen regular challenges to voter access to the polls and instances of voter intimidation.
North Carolina is among the top American states with a low rate of protective and progressive polices for LGBTQ+ people.
North Carolina is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country.
Oil and gas development destroyed thousands of acres of wildlands in North Dakota making the preservation of the Badlands and its Great Plains landscape all the more essential.
Oil and gas development destroyed thousands of acres of wildlands in North Dakota making the preservation of the Badlands and its Great Plains landscape all the more essential.
Passage of a law failed that would have allowed the Fort Berthold Reservation to monitor the impacts of oil and gas development on their air and water
Since the overturn of Roe V. Wade, abortion in North Dakota is completely banned with very limited exceptions.
North Dakota lacks all of the foundational gun violence prevention laws and has only a few of the 50 key policies in place.
Once widespread, the federally endangered Karner blue butterfly has been limited in its breeding success and population by habitat degradation and development.
Ohio has made little progress on gun safety laws, has a Shoot First law, and is training public school employees to use guns.
The share of provisional ballots rejected in Ohio for lack of identification has more than tripled since last year.
Ohio is among the top American states that has a low rate of protective and progressive polices for LGBTQ+ people.
Ohio is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country.
Oklahoma’s Southern High Plains grasslands and the many species such as pronghorn, bighorn sheep and the black footed ferret lies need protection from development, extraction, and the climate crisis.
Advocates for LGBTQ+ rights expressed outrage following an announcement that no criminal charges will be filed against the Oklahoma teens involved in a high school bathroom fight with Nex Benedict that resulted in their suicide.
Oklahoma fails to protect the most basic rights for LGBTQ+ people and is among the top 15 American states that actively acts against them.
Oklahoma is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country, and recently including by nitrogen hypoxia and firing squad.
Oklahoma has some of the highest gun death rates, gun suicide rates, and household firearm ownership rates in the country, and doesn’t require permitting for the concealed carry of firearms.
Coho salmon are part of cultural and spiritual tradition for Indigenous people in Oregon as well as a food source for more than 100 species yet their numbers continue to decline due to human activities.
Less than 10% of Oregon’s old growth forests are left which are ecosystem hotspots which promote biodiversity, provide food and shelter for countless wildlife species, and store carbon.
Despite their precipitous status of 178 individuals, timber wolves are not protected in Oregon where they among the thousands of animals hunted, poached, and poisoned by people every year.
Oregon a broad range of gun safety laws including requirements for a permit and training in order to purchase firearms as well as a prohibition on high-capacity magazines, untraceable ghost guns, and 3-D printed guns.
Oregon is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country.
Pennsylvania ranks among the worst states for animal-vehicle collisions in the nation with a 1 in 59 chance of getting into an accident with wildlife in 2023.
Thousands of mail-in ballots were challenged and thrown out in the 2022 midterm election in Pennsylvania just because voters dated them incorrectly or not at all.
Pennsylvania is one of the top 15 states with major book bans in schools.
Pennsylvania lack many basic protective polices for LGQTQ+ people including adoption protections.
Pennsylvania is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country.
Plastic pollution, which carries toxins that harm people too, is killing Rhode Island’s ocean wildlife including sea turtles, whales, seabirds and fish and destroying once pristine coastal environments.
Rhode Island still requires voter registration a minimum of 30 days before an election instead of increasing access through same day registering and voting.
Despite an alarming decline in sharks of 70% worldwide, Rhode Island allows shark hunting.
Data reveals that police disproportionately stop and search people of color although white motorists were found to possess contraband at a higher rate.
In warmer months Rhode Island’s waters are home to a variety of whale species including humpback, right, and fin which require clean water free of oil, sewage, litter, chemicals, and plastic.
Beavers, bobcats, coyote, gray foxes and red, mink, muskrats and otters are among the animals that can be hunted or trapped for their fur in South Carolina despite a national need for predators for a healthy ecosystem.
The Edisto River is the longest free flowing black water river in the US and provides habitat for Atlantic sturgeon and shortnose sturgeon among more than 200 other fish species.
South Carolina has an incarceration rate of 678 per 100,000 people its prisons, jails, immigration detention, and juvenile justice facilities, and locks up a higher percentage of its people than any democratic country on earth.
South Carolina is one of 15 states that actively discriminates against LGBTQ+ people.
South Carolina is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country.
Just 2% of the wild prairie that dominated South Dakota is left and under threat from grazing, fire suppression, invasive species, conversion to agriculture, and mining and wind development.
South Dakota is one of 15 states that actively discriminates against LGBTQ+ people.
Since Roe V. Wade was overturned, abortion is completely banned in South Dakota with very limited exceptions.
South Dakota has weak gun laws; a very high rate of suicide, mostly by gun; it expanded its Shoot First laws; and has no requirement for concealed carry of firearms in public.
South Dakota is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country.
Federally endangered red wolves have been extirpated from much of their range including in Tennessee.
Tennessee is one of 15 states that actively discriminates against LGBTQ+ people.
Since Roe V. Wade was overturned, abortion is completely banned in Tennessee with very limited exceptions.
Tennessee has among the highest rates of book bans in the nation.
Tennessee is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country.
Decades of fire suppression causes blazes to burn hotter and under more hostile conditions, destroying once fire resistant forests and a condition made worse by the climate crisis.
Mass incarceration of people of color, prison conditions, polluted water, and an increase in the use of isolation are just some of the reasons for prison reform including in Texas where last summer, people in prison endured temperatures of 110F.
Since Roe V. Wade was overturned, abortion is completely banned in Texas with very limited exceptions.
Texas’ treatment of immigrants ranges from cruel to unusual.
Texas is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country.
Utah ranks among the top 10 in the nation for the distribution of white supremacist propaganda.
Teachers in Utah are encouraged to carry guns in the classroom.
Poor conservation practices combined with climate change means the Great Salt Lake is drying up, human health is at risk, and its fragile ecosystem is falling apart.
Utah is one of the top 15 states with major book bans in schools.
Utah is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country, including by firing squad.
Vermont is strengthening bans on PFAS, setting a new precedent in public health protection from these harmful forever chemicals.
Rural children are at high risk of being unhoused in Vermont which has the second highest per capita homelessness rate in the nation.
Overall, Vermont has one of the lowest incarceration rates in the country—yet one of the highest rates of African-American imprisonment.
Vermont is among the US states where killing coyotes is supported and encouraged through brutal coyote killing contests.
Vermont joins seven others states aiming to make the wealthy pay their fair share.
A fraction of its original size, the Great Dismal Swamp contains some of the most important wildlife habitat in the Mid-Atlantic, protecting hundreds of species.
In 2023 Virginia wrongly removed 3,400 voters from the voter rolls just days before the election.
Virginia has an incarceration rate of 749 per 100,000 people including prisons, jails, immigration detention, and juvenile justice facilities, and locks up a higher percentage of its people than any democratic country on earth.
Virginia is one of the top 15 states with major book bans in schools.
Virginia ranks third in the country for the distribution of white supremacy propaganda.
Washington is strengthening bans on PFAS, setting a new precedent in public health protection from these harmful forever chemicals.
Timber wolves are protected by law in Washington where 215 or more live in 37 family packs across their former range.
After passing a slate of new gun safety laws in the past decade, Washington is among the top 10 states in terms of gun law strength.
Prey loss, warming waters, and ocean shipping are threatening the 20 or more Southern Resident orcas living in their family pod.
More than one in five people in West Virginia reports their mental health is poor, the lowest rate in the nation.
More than 20% of the children in West Virginia live in poverty, and more than 15% of adults to age 64 do as well.
West Virginia lacks many of the basic protections for LGBTQ+ people including in adoptions.
With the overturn of Roe V. Wade, abortion is banned in West Virginia with very limited exceptions.
Mountain top mining and coal mines have had a devastating effect on the health of people and the landscape in West Virginia.
Wisconsin scores low on good gun laws while it has resisted Shoot First laws, and Black residents are significantly higher to die by gun homicide then white ones.
A Canadian oil company is trying to reroute an oil pipeline through Northern Wisconsin, putting water and wetlands at great risk.
Wisconsin was made world famous for wolf slaughter in 2021 when 218 wolves were legally gunned down in just a few days shattering family packs and the state population.
Wisconsin is one of the top 15 states with major book bans in schools.
The University of Wisconsin system accepted state money in a trade for limiting DEI programs and firing related staff.
Wyoming is one of 15 states that actively discriminates against LGBTQ+ people.
Wyoming stands out for allowing wolf killing almost anywhere in the state and by any means, no matter how brutal or if the wolf is a pup.
Wyoming is fighting back against a US. Department of Interior move to stop or reduce oil, gas, and mineral extraction on federal public lands.
Wyoming is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country.
Wyoming has one of the highest rates of gun deaths and gun suicide in the country, along with some of the weakest gun laws and high household firearm ownership.
