Influencing U.S. Government Policy Stories

Just a few months into 2024, several bills that WWF is advocating for at the federal and state levels curb plastic pollution, invest in biodiversity conservation, conserve forests, and reduce food waste are advancing with strong bipartisan support.

WWF is advocating for robust US policies in 2024, including the renewal and expansion of conservation programs, reduction of plastic waste through policy enactment, and more. Collaboration with partners, supporters, and activists is crucial for achieving lasting policy solutions and reversing the alarming rate of nature loss.

Fifty years later, we’re reflecting on the success of our bedrock conservation law—and continuing to work together to ensure that it protects the world's most vulnerable species for another 50 years (and more!).

More than $350 billion in historic investments would set the United States on a solid path towards reaching its climate goals.

To protect and restore iconic grassland landscapes, World Wildlife Fund and more than a dozen of North America’s leading conservation groups are touting the introduction of critical new legislation—The North American Grasslands Conservation Act.

An exorbitant amount of plastic waste continues to plague our oceans, threatening marine life and the people who depend on these waters for their livelihoods. Despite the dire scope of this crisis, the growing momentum to address it is promising.

As we enter the second year of the Biden Administration, we’re recognizing the impressive and even transformative progress WWF made on key environmental challenges we are facing—and acknowledging the significant work that remains to ensure that progress is real and lasting.

On Earth Day 2021, President Biden will host an international Leaders Climate Summit to rally world leaders around climate change. The goal is for countries to commit to strong measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while also strengthening their climate resilience plans. 

We can prevent a dire future, where plastic production is tripled by 2050, if we choose action now to reduce the number of single-use products produced and to ensure that the rest are made from recycled or responsibly sourced content rather than fossil fuels.

We are in the midst of an acute public health and economic crisis brought on by an ongoing global pandemic. At the same time, we continue to fall far short in our efforts to address two even more grave and existential crises that build in severity as time goes on—climate change and the rapid loss of biodiversity and nature globally.

As WWF’s policy lead on wildlife conservation, Leigh Henry has played a key role in the organization's efforts to combat the illegal wildlife trade.

As WWF’s lead advocate on Capitol Hill, I spend much of my time with Members of Congress and their staff advocating for the organization’s top conservation priorities. 

Activists from around the country assembled on Capitol Hill for WWF’s Lobby Day 2018 to persuade lawmakers to maintain the amount of funding the United States government provides for international conservation programs.

Panda Ambassadors Laura Miller and Tiffany Jones will travel from Texas to the nation's capital in March to ask Congressional representatives to support international conservation funding. 

The halls of Congress came alive on Tuesday as dozens of WWF activists from across the country met with their representatives to advocate for international conservation funding on Lobby Day 2017.

Congress and the new Administration must continue to make action on climate change a priority, both at home and abroad. Here's how they should do so.

Claiming more than 600,000 marine mammals each year, bycatch especially affects small cetaceans that get caught and drown in fishing nets.

Last night’s State of the Union Address was critically important in a year when there will need to be major international agreement on climate change action.