13 Republicans and 13 Democrats sign bipartisan letter to leadership;
Mark your calendars for Giving Tuesday

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Weekly Briefing, Nov. 15, 2023

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Climate Caucus letter on permitting

Amplify your impact & take action

Featured: CCL Eastern Panhandle

Upcoming trainings

Climate Caucus sends

letter to leadership urging cooperation on permitting

Last week, a group of lawmakers in the House Climate Solutions Caucus
sent a letter to House leadership urging bipartisan climate cooperation
and specifically highlighting permitting reform as an area of
opportunity. The 26 members who signed the letter are 13 Republicans and
13 Democrats. (One of the signatories is Rep. Young Kim, pictured above
speaking at CCL's 2022 conservative conference.)

Addressed to newly elected Speaker Johnson and to Minority Leader
Jefferies, the letter opens by saying, "We write to express our interest
in working with you to advance bipartisan climate policies during the
118th Congress."

Ben Pendergrass, CCL's Vice President of Government Affairs, says the
letter sends "an important message" because it "is the first statement
that includes Republicans saying any reform package must address
transmission." Before now, the issue of transmission was cast as a
Democratic issue, so this letter represents concrete evidence of growing
common ground.

The letter comes just weeks after CCL staff delivered a briefing to the
staff of Climate Solutions Caucus members about clean energy permitting
reform and the need for increased transmission. That briefing, and the
outreach of CCL liaisons, were directly responsible for some of the
members of Congress joining the letter.

Get all the details on this encouraging development in today's blog
post.

Get the Details

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In other news this week:

• New climate report just dropped: The Fifth National Climate Assessment
was just released yesterday, outlining climate trends, impacts, and
solutions in each region of the United States. Check out the report

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and plan to join CCL Research Coordinator Dana Nuccitelli on Dec. 15 for
a discussion of its findings

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• ICYMI: Republicans introduce foreign pollution fee: Sens. Cassidy and
Graham recently introduced the Foreign Pollution Fee Act of 2023

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. This is an encouraging development after years of CCL volunteers
lobbying on this type of policy idea!

• Open positions: CCL is hiring a Senior Development Officer and a
Development Coordinator. Please share the job listings

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with anyone in your network who may be interested.

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Amplify your impact on Giving Tuesday

Giving Tuesday is right around the corner — on Tuesday, Nov. 28. We aim
to raise $300,000 in donations on this day and $1.25 million by year
end. And this year: if we achieve our milestone goal on Giving Tuesday,
we'll unlock an extra $125,000 bonus gift! Your contribution will help
us recruit and retain even more volunteers in 2024. It will also ensure
we're able to deploy effective and timely grassroots advocacy tools to
help our volunteers advance climate legislation. Mark your calendar for
Tuesday, Nov. 28 or give today

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Take action this week

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If you have a little time: Share this explainer post about BIG WIRES. As
we build more support for the BIG WIRES Act in Congress and in our
communities, this new explainer post

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on CCL's Instagram will help you simplify some of the concepts behind
the legislation. Like, comment on, or share it!

If you have more time: Plan to act on what you learned at the Fall
Conference. At our Fall Conference earlier this month, you undoubtedly
heard some fresh ideas and tips for how to make change happen in your
community and with your members of Congress. (If you didn't, catch up on
the conference highlights

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.) Reflect on your main takeaways, and start making plans to act on
them.

Featured chapter: CCL Eastern Panhandle

CCL Eastern Panhandle is a relatively new chapter, kicking off with a
Climate Advocate Training workshop in September. Mikayla Hamrick (above,
second from right) and Austin Gregoryk (above, right) co-lead this new
chapter, which is the third CCL chapter in West Virginia.

"So many people want to see action on climate, but they are at a loss as
to what they can do," Mikayla said in an interview

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with the Shepherdstown Chronicle promoting the event. The group's recent
workshop helped "to show our community that we can make a difference by
advocating for achievable climate solutions."

The issue of climate change feels particularly relevant with heavy rains
and flash flooding affecting West Virginians in Upper Kanawha Valley
recently. "This workshop [hoped to] break the myth that we can't make a
difference and inspire attendees to be the change they want to see in
the world," Mikayla said.

Welcome to the team, CCL Eastern Panhandle!

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

1 1/16: Hosting A Film Screening - Learn how CCL chapters have used film
screenings to engage their communities around climate and clean energy
solutions. We'll be reviewing the basics, highlighting the CCL Film
Screening Guide resource, and previewing upcoming films your chapter can
screen. Join us!

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11/23: Thanksgiving holiday - No training session tonight

Need training on the basics? Catch our next session of Core Volunteer
Training, made for newer volunteers:

1 1/21: Grassroots Outreach Basics - This training highlights the
bite-sized best practices of tabling and presentations. 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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