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===Climate===
American Values Network has been a vocal supporter forsupported legislation dealing withon climate change and other environmental issues. In almost all of AVN's climate work, they have rallied members of the Christian and military communities to advocate for cleaner, smarter, and healthier environmental policy. In 2009, the organization to support the [[American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009]] which passed through the House but was defeated in the Senate. In this campaign, AVN sent emails to more than 650,00 people in Colorado, Arizona, and Arizona in which members of the military emphasized the need for comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation as a matter of national security.<ref>{{cite news|last=Cillizza|first=Chris|title=The Fix|url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/morning-fix/081809-morning-fix-rust-belt-r.html|accessdate=24 June 2013|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=18 August 2009}}</ref>
 
In 2010, AVN released a series of ads on American cable news networks [[CNN]], [[Fox News]], and [[MSNBC]] that targeted [[Lindsey Graham|Senator Lindsey Graham]]’s change in position on environmental legislative reform.<ref>{{cite web|last=AmericanValuesNet|title=Back Then|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxrjpPhb3NU|publisher=YouTube|accessdate=24 June 2013}}</ref> Leading up to 2010, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham supported climate legislation but then flip-flopped on the issue. AVN's ads called out Senator Graham and highlighted the hypocrisy.
 
In the last several years AVN has led a sustained effort to advocate for and support climate legislation and other environmental protection measures. Most recently2013, AVN began an initiative called the Good Steward Campaign,<ref>{{cite web|title=Good Stewrad Campaign|url=http://goodstewardcampaign.org|accessdate=23 January 2014}}</ref> which is a faith-based environmental organization focused primarily on college campus outreach. In the fall of 2013, The Good Steward Campaign organized on 30 college campuses in an attempt to get Christian students to think about and address climate change from a faith perspective. They also support fossil fuel divestment campaigns.
 
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