Ethan Todras-Whitehill

Chief Communications Officer and Co-founder @Greenlight America

Washington, DC, US

Greenlight America is a new independent non-profit focused on leveraging grassroots energy to help more clean energy and transmission projects win local permitting and approval more quickly. The U.S. needs to build clean power projects and more than miles of transmission lines in the next decade to hit emissions reduction goals. Perhaps the biggest obstacle is widespread local opposition - which often reflects genuine sentiment within the communities where clean energy must be built, but is amplified by fossil fuel funding and exacerbated by misinformation. There is no comparable independent grassroots effort advocating *for* building these projects. Our founding team has led some of the largest grassroots organizing networks in the country. We are building a scalable, nationwide model for engaging and mobilizing local residents in support of clean energy.