A prominent environmentalist group that helped draft President Joe Biden’s 2020 climate plan hasn’t lined up behind him in 2024.
The Sunrise Movement, a group led by young progressive Democratic activists, first gained headlines for a sit-in protest in former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) office alongside Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Though it was supportive of Biden in 2020 and helped draft his climate plan, fossil fuel projects and his handling of the war in Gaza have caused relations to sour.
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