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CCL Weekly Briefing, April 12, 2023
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Table of Contents:
Francis Rooney keynote
Take action this week
Creative card to Congress
Upcoming trainings
Former GOP Congressman Francis Rooney will speak at June Conference
While he was in Congress, Florida Representative Francis Rooney
distinguished himself as a leading Republican on climate change. Among
other things, he was an original cosponsor of the Energy Innovation and
Carbon Dividend Act when it was first introduced in 2018, and in 2019,
he became the Republican co-chair of the bipartisan Climate Solutions
Caucus.
His climate credentials and bipartisan approach make him the perfect
keynote speaker for CCL's upcoming conference in Washington, D.C. (June
10-13), "The 2023 Climate Lobbying Reboot."
Rooney's support for climate solutions like carbon pricing is informed
by the science. In a past interview with CCL
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, he said, "I've always felt it's obvious that human activity has had an
impact on climate, but I didn't know as much about it until I studied
it. Life is a journey of continuous learning."
That learning was motivated in no small part by representing his state's
19th Congressional District in southwest Florida, a place many would
consider to be ground zero for climate change. Rising sea levels,
increasingly severe storms and red tides are affecting people there, and
Rooney wanted to do all he could to limit the impact on his constituents
and beyond.
"It is not enough to adapt to these changes locally and move forward
without looking at the root causes and working toward a broader and more
preventative solution," Rooney said in an op-ed
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At our June conference, you will hear directly from this influential
voice and you can help work toward climate solutions. We hope you'll
join us!
REGISTER FOR CONFERENCE
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In other news this week:
• Watch CCL's April call: On Saturday, we hosted our April national call
for CCL volunteers, featuring a guest speaker from Future 500 and
reviewing the actions you can take this month to advance climate policy.
Watch the recording
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of the call or jump directly to the April Action Sheet
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to get started.
• Surge forward on solar: Our research team's Chart of the Week
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shows just how much clean energy is waiting in queues to be permitted
and built. Spoiler alert: There's a whole lot of solar.
• Climate action on the airwaves: The latest episode of the Climate
Optimists podcast
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features Flannery Winchester, CCL's Senior Director of Communications,
discussing CCL's approach to climate advocacy. This would be a great
episode to share on social media
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or send to friends who want to get active on climate.
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Take action this week
If you have a little time: Contact your member of Congress. Our action
page
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has two options for contacting Congress right now. You can send a
message asking them to put a price on carbon
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, or you can reach out about climate-smart forestry
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. Make sure your representative and senators hear from you today.
If you have more time: Offer "Climate Anxiety Counseling" on Earth Day.
Okay, so it's not real counseling — but it's a great conversation
starter for an Earth Day event! Check out this creative resource
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from CCL's marketing department, and reach out to your local chapter
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to plug in to their next grassroots outreach event.
Featured chapter: CCL Berkshires
Sometimes it takes a little out-of-the-box thinking to get the attention
of your member of Congress. CCL Berkshires chapter in Massachusetts got
creative with some recent outreach to Rep. Richard Neal, who sits on the
important Ways and Means Committee.
He "loves Ireland, speaks in front of Parliament there, and is quite
popular in Ireland," explains Pauline Banducci, who is a co-leader of
the group with Judy Fox and Ulrike Nagel. "We had the idea to send a St.
Patrick's Day card to him. We emailed it and also overnighted the
original to him." Volunteer Erika Crofut designed the card, pictured
above, which delightfully depicts Rep. Neal himself as a leprechaun,
holding a pot of gold with CCLers' faces on it.
Rep. Neal responded with a personal note, saying their letter was "one
of the most creative pieces to come across my desk" and thanking the
chapter "for your artful letter, and for your advocacy." His letter
reiterated his commitment to climate action and affirmed, "Protecting
our planet for future generations should not be a partisan issue."
And that's just one example of this chapter's awesome work as a group.
Last week, they hosted an in-person climate forum with speakers
educating the community about the Inflation Reduction Act, which earned
some fantastic local media coverage
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. Fantastic job, CCL Berkshires!
Have you logged your latest activities in the Action Tracker? Tell us
what you have been up to lately!
ACTION TRACKER
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Upcoming trainings
4/13: Generating News Coverage - This training explores how to earn news
coverage — articles, TV segments and radio interviews — featuring you
and your local CCL chapter. Join us!
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4/20: How to Create a Clean and Stable Electric Grid - Part Two - Join
CCL Research staff to learn what kinds of energy and infrastructure will
be needed for a stable, clean energy electric grid and the main
technologies that are most likely to get us there. Join us!
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Need training on the basics? Catch our next session of Core Volunteer
Training, made for newer volunteers:
4/18: Healthy Forests Climate Science AMA - Join CCL Research
Coordinator Dana Nuccitelli and Susan Cook-Patton, Senior Forest
Restoration Scientist with The Nature Conservancy, for an "Ask Me
Anything" about healthy forests. RSVP here
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To see other topics and past trainings, visit the Training Topics page
of CCL Community
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Donate now to support our climate action work
Donate Now!
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