Bipartisan clean energy bill introduced in Senate; Major article in
Forbes supports Energy Innovation Act

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Weekly Briefing, Aug. 4, 2021

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Table of Contents:

Final push for Senate campaign 

Take action this week 

Featured lever: Media 

Upcoming trainings 

This week on the CCL blog 

Final push: Ask friends and family to call the Senate

As we enter the final week of our campaign

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asking senators to include carbon pricing in the budget reconciliation
bill, we're closing in on our national goal of 14,000+ constituents
writing and calling their senators.

We can smash through that goal and finish up strong by asking friends
and family to join the campaign. This is the time for all of us to go
big. To give you some inspiration, CCL's creative consultant, Nick Huey,
provided an outreach tutorial with this video

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of him asking his mom to take action.

Throughout the country volunteers are reaching out through emails, phone
calls, social media and even knocking on their neighbors' doors. One
volunteer who has 7,000 connections on LinkedIn has already heard back
from 20 people.

To help with the push, CCL has organized phone banks to call CCL
supporters and ask them to join the campaign. If you'd like to help out,
there are two-hour phone banking shifts on Thursday, Monday and Tuesday
evening. You can RSVP for a shift and get more information here

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Trainings and resources for the Senate campaign can be found here

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. Big thanks to all who have written and phoned their senators and all
who have asked others to join this important campaign. Watch your inbox
next week to find out how we did!

WATCH NICK'S HOW-TO VIDEO

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In other news this week:

Bipartisan clean energy bill introduced: Last week, Sen. Mike Crapo
(R-ID) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) introduced legislation to
encourage innovation in the clean energy sector. The Energy Sector
Innovation Credit Act

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promotes clean energy innovation by allowing up to a 40% investment tax
credit or 60% production tax credit for technologies that are emerging
in the market. Citizens' Climate Lobby is among the organizations
supporting

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the Crapo-Whitehouse bill.

Answers to carbon pricing criticism : Critics say that carbon pricing is
not as effective at reducing emissions as other policies such as
regulations and subsidies. Do these arguments have merit? CCL Research
Coordinator Jerry Hinkle explains what the studies show in this recent
blog

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Jobs available with CCL: Citizens' Climate Education is currently hiring
for two full time positions: Student Engagement Manager

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and Grant Writer

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. We are also hiring for two six-month-long contract positions: Indiana
Conservative Climate Field Organizer

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Take action this week

If you have a little time: Retweet, like and reply to Congressman Ted
Deutch's tweet

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about his Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act. Rep. Deutch has
been a staunch leader on carbon pricing for a number of years. Let's
show him some love.

If you have more time: Watch the recording

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of CCL's call with volunteer leaders that kicked off our Senate Action
Campaign

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on July 20. In this video, CCL executives Mark Reynolds, Madeleine Para
and Danny Richter lay out the campaign for CCL supporters to ask their
Senators to include carbon pricing in the budget reconciliation bill .

You can also connect with your nearest CCL chapter

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to take action in your community, or join one of CCL's national online
Action Teams

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to take action on specific topics like agriculture, health, faith, and
more.

Browse CCL Community's Event Calendar

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to find upcoming events, trainings, and calls you can join.

Media: Carbon fee & dividend in Forbes

Forbes this week has an excellent and comprehensive article about the
carbon fee and dividend bill pending in the U.S. House. Senior
Contributor John Cumbers writes, "What if a carbon tax created jobs,
grew the economy, and its revenues were used to send a monthly check to
U.S. households? There is a specific piece of carbon tax legislation —
the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act — that would do all these
things."

The article is a follow up to a piece Cumbers wrote

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two years ago after a member of CCL's Business Climate Leaders, Joel
Stone, reached out to him. Harold Hedelman, co-founder of BCL, thought
this would be a good time to follow up with a piece specifically about
the Energy Innovation Act, and he provided research that Cumbers used in
the new article.

Cumbers concluded by citing what he sees as the benefits of fee and
dividend:

"It grows the economy, creates millions of jobs, improves public health
especially in fenceline communities, reduces income inequality, and will
incentivize our trading partners to adopt their own price on carbon."

READ THE FORBES ARTICLE

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Upcoming trainings

8/5: Join a phone banking team : Instead of a Citizens' Climate
University training, we invite you to participate with a phone banking
shift to contact CCL supporters and ask them to participate in the
Senate campaign for carbon pricing. Join a phone banking shift

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8/12: Introduction to TikTok - Join CCL Marketing Manager Ashley Hunt
Martorano to learn about this fast-growing social media platform and
some of the creative ways CCL is engaging audiences on it. Join us

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

8/10: CCL Media Basics - Getting published in local media is a great way
to get our message out and influence members of Congress. Learn how to
get started with some of the resources CCL provides for your media work.
Learn more and RSVP

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To see other topics and past trainings, visit the Training Topics page
of CCL Community

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This week on the CCL blog

A message from Sen. Whitehouse: Citizens' Climate Lobby received a
heartfelt appreciation from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse last week in a video
message where he thanked CCL for the " really astonishing work that
you've done to help us solve our climate crisis." In the message,
Whitehouse laid out the path ahead for climate legislation and
reiterated his commitment to include a price on carbon. Read more

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Montana chapter pulls multiple levers : CCL's levers of political will
can sometimes create a virtuous circle. That's what happened in
Whitefish, Montana, when the local CCL chapter got their city to pass a
resolution supporting the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act,
after which the local newspaper ran a front-page article about the
resolution. Read more

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Understanding Hispanic Republicans : On the latest episode of Citizens'
Climate Radio, host Peterson Toscano talks with Geraldo Cadava, author
of "The Hispanic Republican." They explore the conservative values in
the Latino community that motivate many to identify with the Republican
party. Read more

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CCL Climate Advocate Training
Do you want to be a more effective volunteer? Start by joining our
Informational Session, then register for our Climate Advocate Training,
and wrap up with our Core Volunteer Training.
The Info Session is held weekly on Wednesdays at 8pm ET, 5pm PT.
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