The
2025
Awards
The
Awards
About the Awards

The Bill Weihl Award honors individuals who have used their climate voice and demonstrated an outstanding commitment to advocate for climate policy, both inside their company and in organizing their peers.

We are pleased to announce the 2025 Bill Weihl Award winners below.

Climate Policy Hero Award

Awarded to an individual who has demonstrated ongoing leadership in the area of corporate advocacy of climate public policy, as part of their direct or indirect professional role.
Winner
Dominic Gogol

Director of Advocacy Initiatives
We Mean Business Coalition

Honorable Mention
Vanessa Fajans-Turner
Executive Director
Environmental Advocates NY

Climate Action at Work Award

Awarded to an individual who has demonstrated ongoing leadership in the recruitment, education, and implementation of a peer employee group working to advocate for climate policy and accountability internal to their employer.

Winner
Sam Gooch
Technical Program Manager
Waymo (subsidiary of Alphabet)
Honorable Mention
Stephen M. Collins
Principal Manager, Strategy & Innovation
Edison International

Special Recognition

Awarded to individuals who have led innovative work to address climate change across multiple sectors.
Holly Alpine
Co-Founder
Enabled Emissions
Award Criteria

Nominees should have a track record of one or more of the following:

  • Leveraging corporate influence to advance climate policy
  • Spotlighting misalignment between a company’s public statements and the policy stances of trade associations to which they belong
  • Working to establish meaningful collaboration between sustainability and government affairs teams within companies
  • Advancing corporate citizenship on climate beyond operational commitments
  • Being an internal change agent for climate policy action, including documenting, reporting or highlighting a company’s policy inaction, misalignment or failures
Selection Criteria
Motivation

What did the nominee set out to do?

Action
How did the nominee actualize their strategy?
Change

What happened as a result?

The Prize
The award winners joined ClimateVoice in Phoenix, AZ at GreenBiz26 to accept their awards and participate in related events!
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About Bill Weihl
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Speaking up so Companies Step Up

Bill started his career in computer science on the faculty at MIT. In 2006, he took a role at Google as Green Energy Czar, leading their clean energy work.

Subsequently, he spent 6 years at Facebook as Director of Sustainability. In 2020, he founded ClimateVoice to focus on directing the massive influence of companies to help address the climate crisis.

Bill, who lost his own voice to ALS, continues to highlight the impact that employee voices can have on their companyʼs climate policy advocacy by speaking up so companies step up.

Watch Bill's Keynote at GreenBiz 24
About ClimateVoice
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When employees speak, companies act!
ClimateVoice, a 501(c)3 project of Tides Center, leverages the power of corporate influence to win crucial policy battles by activating employees, engaging executives, and shining the media spotlight to galvanize climate policy action.
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Previous Award Winners

Meet Our 2024 Winners