Lobby day stats and photos; Young CCLer gets printed in the NY Times;
Nevada chapter pulls out all the stops for tabling
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Weekly Briefing, June 21, 2023
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Table of Contents:
Lobby day on Capitol Hill
Take action this week
Featured: CCL Carson City
Upcoming trainings
436 meetings on Capitol Hill — add your voice
The final numbers are in! During last week's lobby day on Capitol Hill,
our volunteers held an incredible 436 lobby meetings on Capitol Hill.
That's 160 House Republicans, 182 House Democrats, 45 Senate
Republicans, 46 Senate Democrats, and 3 Senate Independents.
We say we're nonpartisan
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, and lobbying stats like that show we're walking the walk. Our
volunteers met with nearly every congressional office on both sides of
the aisle. We need every elected official to move forward on climate
policies like carbon pricing and clean energy permitting reform — so
we're pushing them all to make it happen.
On carbon pricing, many offices were receptive to the expected
reintroduction of the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, and
they showed interest in signing on as cosponsors. (In case you're new
around here, that bill is our favorite carbon pricing legislation. With
our support, it grew to an impressive 95 cosponsors last Congress!)
On clean energy permitting reform, our message was loud and clear:
Congress needs to keep going. America needs further permitting updates
to boost transmission projects, improve early community involvement, and
speed up the pace of building and deploying new clean energy projects.
After so many lobby meetings on this topic last week, now is the perfect
time to follow up with your members of Congress reinforcing that
message. Send them an email using our action tool today.
Message My Members of Congress
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In other news this week:
• Lobby day photos: Volunteers posted more than 100 photos on social
media last Tuesday, snapping selfies from Capitol Hill and taking group
photos with their lobby teams. Check out our slideshow of lobby day
photos
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that we shared at last week's post-lobbying reception in D.C.
• Youth LTE in NYT: Samantha Block, one of CCL's incoming Climate
Advocacy Fellows
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, wrote a letter to the editor that was published in the New York Times
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. In the letter, which she wrote during CCL's conference last week, she
says, "Young people will bear the brunt of these disasters. Our future
is at stake. Our voices must be heard."
• Sea temperatures on the rise: The Chart of the Week
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in CCL's Nerd Corner discusses the record sea surface temperatures so
far in 2023.
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Take action this week
If you have a little time: Share social posts from our conference.
CCLers were posting up a storm across all the major social platforms
during our June conference and lobby day last week. Check out the posts
tagged with #CCL2023 or #GrassrootsClimate on Facebook
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, Twitter
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, and Instagram
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to see and share posts from your fellow citizen lobbyists.
If you have more time: Attend CCL's info session to get plugged in.
You're concerned about climate change and want to do something to help —
but maybe you're not sure how to get started. That's why we host a info
session
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! Join the live call on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT or catch the
recording anytime. You'll learn what CCL is all about and how you can
move Congress forward on major climate action. Join us!
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Featured chapter: CCL Carson City
CCL's Carson City, Nevada, chapter has tabling down to a science. For
the third year in a row, they are participating as a vendor at the local
Carson Farmers Market, tabling every other Saturday from June through
September.
The farmers market assigns them a 10-square-foot tent to work with, and
the chapter draws in visitors with materials like banners
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, CCL's tri-fold
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, and the new Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth
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. Volunteers cover the table in four shifts of about two hours each.
The chapter is led by Rob Bastien, Chas Macquarie, Midge Breeden, and
Roger Heath. Rob describes the chapter as "relatively small," but he
says folks always "come through to manage the booth over the nine
Saturdays of our season."
Before they even get to the farmers market itself, the chapter puts in a
lot of work to ensure their tabling efforts run smoothly. They hold
local trainings to cover all the logistics — "arrival, unloading, booth
setup according to the rules of the Carson Farmers Market, banner
placements and set up, familiarization of the volunteers with the
appearance of the flyers, practicing some tabling interaction, and then
finally breaking down the ‘booth' and fitting it all back into someone's
vehicle." Since someone else will be tabling in another two weeks, it's
important to keep everything organized.
"There is definitely a fair amount of work involved, but tabling at
Carson Farmers Market is rewarding," Rob says. "Along with acquiring new
members, we are visible, and we are spreading the word about the climate
crisis and what can and must be done to address it. It's work that must
be done!" Fantastic job, CCL Carson City.
CCL has nearly 400 chapters across the country. Find your local chapter
today and get plugged in!
Find My Chapter
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Upcoming trainings
6/29: Clean Energy Permitting Reform Updates and Q&A - Join Research
Coordinator Dana Nuccitelli to learn what's happening on clean energy
permitting reform since our June Conference and Lobby Day. What was
included in the debt ceiling bill, what more do we need in a
comprehensive package, and what are the prospects of a bipartisan clean
energy permitting reform deal this year? Bring your questions! Join us!
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Need training on the basics? Catch our next session of Core Volunteer
Training, made for newer volunteers:
6/27: Understanding Congress Basics - Have a question about the
legislative process in Congress? Tune in for this training that explores
the details of the congressional policy-making process, how a bill
becomes law, and research from the Congressional Management Foundation
on life in Congress for both staff members and our representatives and
senators. Join us!
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To see other topics and past trainings, visit the Training Topics page
of CCL Community
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timely actions via text message. This will be critical once a bill is in
congress. You can opt out at any time. Sign up today!
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CCL Climate Advocate Training
Do you want to be a more effective volunteer? Start by joining our
Informational Session, and then register for our Climate Advocate
Training.
The Info Session is held weekly on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT.
Join Info Session
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CCL's Climate Advocate Training workshop is offered live several times a
year ahead of our big lobby days. Click below to sign up or find out
more information.
Register for Climate Advocate Training
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Donate now to support our climate action work
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