His first campaign for governor was marked by enmity between him and Raimondo, the incumbent. More recently, Brown, who lives in Providence with his wife and two teenage children, has worked to build the organization now called Renew U.S., which advocates for state-level climate policies while also aiming to address racial and socioeconomic inequities. He continued to work for the group after returning to Rhode Island.
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“There are periods when things get bad enough and people get organized and you can have major change and progress,” he says, mentioning the New Deal, the series of federal programs launched in the 1930s during the Great Depression.Īfter his term as secretary of state, he moved to Washington, where he lived from 2008 to 2012, and led Global Zero, a nuclear-weapons nonproliferation organization. When it’s put to him that government makes changes only incrementally, he disagrees. “We're running to win governing power,” Brown says.Īnd that means victories in the House and Senate as well as the governor’s office. The co-op doesn’t want to just influence policy. And the session that just wrapped up in June has been heralded as the most productive on environmental policy in recent memory.īut Brown says their work is far from done. Just months later, after years of inaction on climate change, legislators passed a landmark law to make reductions in carbon emissions mandatory. The impact was almost immediate in areas like the environment. Candidates from the co-op won eight House and Senate races in the 2020 election, helping push the General Assembly to the left.
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