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Carbon pricing works! "Under Canada's carbon pricing, households were 3 times more responsive to a change of gasoline price from the carbon price than to just fluctions. They expected it to be permanent, so they made bigger changes." - Marc Hafstead #CCLinDC #GrassrootsClimate @cclusa.org

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The rumors of carbon pricing's demise are greatly exaggerated. - Marc Hafstead #CCLinDC #GrassrootsClimate

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"How are we going to create a [carbon pricing] policy that's going to create enough constituents to keep that policy from being overturned?" - Marc Hafstead #CCLinDC #GrassrootsClimate

Marc Hafstead speaking at Citizens' Climate Lobby 2026 Summer Conference.

"Within a day of all these letters to the editor and op-eds about the Fix our Forests Act, I was receiving emails from members saying 'We want to talk about this bill.'" - Jen Tyler Grassroots action works! #CCLinDC #GrassrootsClimate

John Arcoleo @johnarcoleo.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It's really helpful to see this big-picture timeline of CCL's action on permitting reform, and how the individual actions they've asked us to do throughout the past year ladder up into a larger strategy. Thanks Jen Tyler! #CCLinDC #GrassrootsClimate

Photo of a slide showing a timeline of Citizens' Climate Lobby's permitting reform strategy.
Title: Building Permitting Momentum
Subtitle: A year of coordinated advocacy helped create the momentum behind today's bipartisan negotiations.

Timeline:

November
360+ lobby meetings
Encouraging bipartisan negotiations.

February
National media push
Building public support and momentum for permitting.

March
6,680 messages
Urging progress in renewed bipartisan negotiations.

April
6,053 messages
Advocating for strong transmission provisions after transmission
proposal is released.

April
Conservative Lobby Day - 45+ meetings
Pushing Republican support for transmission.

July
Progressive Lobby Day - 10+ meetings
Urging progressives to engage on permitting.

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PLEASE CALL CONGRESS ON MONDAY, JULY 27!! I am in Washington, DC, to talk to Congress about bipartisan climate and energy solutions with Citizens Climate Lobby. Please go to and click on Take Action icon. www.cclusa.org/callcongress #GrassrootsClimate

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"Solar tax credits create haves and have-nots. We need an alternative way to bring down the cost. If we matched the cost of solar in Germany and Australia, both of which require union labor, then solar would by less than 8 cents per kWh in this country." -- @jigarshahdc.bsky.social #CCLinDC

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Permitting reform is something that everybody wants for their own personal reasons. I think our [clean] technologies are better, and if we have a level playing field, our technologies are going to be the majority of what gets built. - @jigarshahdc.bsky.social @cclusa.org #CCLinDC

Jigar Shah speaking at Citizens' Climate Lobby 2026 summer conference.

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"The people who profit from division are counting on us to not see the best in others. Refusing polarizing isn't just being nice; it's a very smart tactic. It can solve climate change faster than the alternative, which is remaining partisan." -- Ricky Bradley #CCLinDC

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Lisa Danz @lisadanz.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

"Convincing us that we can't overcome partisan politics is part of the playbook. When we feel hopeless and powerless, we're less likely to act. You reject that framing, and I applaud you for that." -- Ricky Bradley #CCLinDC

Ricky Bradley, Executive Director of Citizens' Climate Lobby, speaking at the opening of the CCL 2026 Summer Conference.

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My letter about saving transit funding got published in @mercurynews.com 😊. Thanks @connectbayarea.bsky.social for providing the opportunity to volunteer and collect signatures. Local friends, if you haven't signed yet, hit me up, or check connectbayarea.com for upcoming events where you can sign.

Screen shot of a letter to the editor in the newspaper, with the following text:

Do your part to save Bay Area transit

Re: “Rail future on shaky ground” (Page A1, Feb. 23).

I rely on transit to get to work, visit my family, visit my friends and run errands. We have a wonderful transit system here in the Bay Area. It’s easy to critique the details, but I love that I can get where I need to go using just my Clipper Card and my own two feet, and that transit reduces traffic and keeps our air cleaner.

The possible transit cuts are terrifying. I signed up as a volunteer to collect signatures for the ballot measure to keep our system strong and useful. It’s been good to see how many people in the community support transit and want to sign, and we need all the signatures we can get.

If someone asks you to sign the petition for the ballot measure to the Public Transit Revenue Measure District, please do sign. Or better yet, join me as a volunteer.

— Lisa Danz, San Francisco

Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 17/12/2025

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NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

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Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado

The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

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Citizens' Climate Lobby @cclusa.org · 12/01/2026

Major #carbonpricing news this month: The EU has "fully implement[ed] a functioning border carbon adjustment policy." In order to trade certain goods with Europe, "importers must now pay for the greenhouse gas emissions contained on their products." www.clearbluemarkets.com/knowledge-ba...

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The EU’s CBAM enters a New Phase: Why the EU’s Carbon Border Tax Matters

CBAM is now fully operational.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 03/08/2025

"To use current policy scenarios in order to justify the repeal of current policies (as the EPA is attempting to do) rests on a fundamentally flawed premise. If the world actively repeals climate policies – which the US proposes doing – it would potentially push us to a higher emissions scenario."

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 03/08/2025

I have a new post over at The Climate Brink on how the recent DOE report on climate science and the EPA's proposed overturning of the endangerment finding used and misused my research: www.theclimatebrink....

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How the DOE and EPA used and misused my research

Elevating contrarian views while burying the actual science

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"Be you. Bring your most beautiful self to these meetings. Bring your CCL values to these meetings. And thank you for standing up for climate." -- @karinaframirez.bsky.social #CCL2025

Karina Ramirez giving closing remarks at Citizens' Climate Lobby conference.

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"There's a sense of urgency here. There is a chance that members will sit on this bill and wait until another catastrophic wildfire hits." - Nyasha (Nya) Osifeso at #CCL2025

Loggers are trained on preserving old-growth forests. There has been some movement to reduce some of those standards, in order to move faster, and this is where we have to keep working with the logger training community to keep those standards in place. - Ann M. Bartuska, Ph.D. #CCL2025

There are some community-based programs where people are taken through a forest to see and really understand the impact of forest management practices. One thing that people enjoy is, under controlled conditions, setting a little prescribed burn themselves. - Ann M. Bartuska, Ph.D. #CCL2025

"The Senate version included a lot more input from community groups and organizations, and it's a stronger bill because of that. That's what got us to a yes." - Nyasha Osifeso of Environmental Defense Fund on #FixOurForestsAct #CCL2025 #GrassrootsClimate

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"There are landscapes where 10,000 acres isn't a lot. And there are landscapes where 10,000 is a hell of a lot." - Danielle Watson, on right-sizing projects, and the updates in #FixOurForestsAct to categorial exclusions #CCL2025

"The Senate Bill is a clear improvement over the House bill." - Nyasha (Nya) Osifeso, on the #FixOurForestsAct #CCL2025

"Forests can go up in flames if treatments that are necessary are delayed." -- Nyasha (Nya) Osifeso #CCL2025

New tracking technology lets us analyze a fire in real time and determine within 20 minutes if it's a beneficial fire and we should let it burn, or whether we need to fight it. Fix our Forests Act has funding for that technology. -- Ann M. Bartuska, Ph.D. #CCL2025

Danielle Watson of American Forests is highlighting her colleague Kendall DeLyser's report on the latest science on forestry management bof.fire.ca.gov/media/daimp0.... #CCL2025 #FixOurForestsAct

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"Every decision that we make, even decisions to take no action, those are management decisions." -- Danielle Watson on forest management at #CCL2025

Learning more about the Fix our Forests Act from these experts. #CCL2025

Speaking panel including panelists Ann M. Bartuska, PhD, Nyasha (Nya) Osifeso, Danielle Watson, and moderator Dana Nuccitelli.

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Jenn Tyler: Given the influence of the administration, how effective are our conversations with members of Congress? Brandon Farris: Thankfully, President Trump also wants permitting reform. He wants it for oil and gas, but you can't do it without 60 votes in the Senate. #CCL2025

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Jenn Tyler: What do you say to Democrats who are worried about permitting reform in this moment? Brandon Farris: I would say, it has to be bipartisan. Make sure your voice is heard. #CCL2025

"You don't pass a lot of individual bills in Congress anymore. You go for a few must-pass bills, and then you tie something to it." - Brandon Farris at #CCL2025

"We haven't substantially reformed permitting since the 1970's. Let's stop making the perfect the enemy of the good." - Brandon Farris at #CCL2025

One of the main takeaways from the last election was the affordability is really important to the American people. We know that investing in clean energy makes energy less expensive, and we should make that point. - Dr. Danny Richter at #CCL2025

"When crafting your message, don't say anything that you don't personally believe in. You're trying to craft a message that resonates with them while still being authentic." - Mindy Ahler at #CCL2025

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"You want to use words where the member of Congress thinks, 'I could say that to my constituents, and I want to say that.'" "To get them to actually do it, it takes relationship-building over time." - Dr. Danny Richter at #CCL2025

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"If we're not asking someone to do something they wouldn't otherwise do, that's not lobbying." - Dr. Danny Richter at #CCL2025

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"We're going to try to convince them to do what we want them to do, but we're going to wrap that in language that they could imagine themselves using." - Flannery Winchester #CCL2025

Brett Cease @brettcease.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

#CCL2025 Looking forward to improving my volunteer lobbying skills.

Photo of Flannery Winchester, Danny Richter, and Mindy Ahler of Citizens’ Climate Lobby, with a slide that says “Perfect your Lobby Plan.”

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Good morning ☀️ there’s over 850 climate advocates gathering together today for the #CCL2025 @cclusa.org conference here in DC getting ready for our 400 lobby meetings tomorrow and building political will for a livable world! We are #inspired and ready for #grassrootsclimate action! 👏

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"The trajectory of technologies has really changed the paradigm on what will get built under what policy regime." - Daniel Palken, Ph.D. #CCL2025

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"None of us want to go back to the time before environmental laws, with rivers lighting on fire. But, what these laws started as is not what they have become. At first, a typical NEPA report was about 20 pages. A recent one was about 10,000 pages." - Daniel Palken, Ph.D. #CCL2025

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"Permitting reform, part of what makes it so interesting to work on, is that it divides the coalitions of both parties." -- Daniel Palken, Ph.D. #CCL2025

"If you come into a negotiation with your mind made up about what the answer has to be, it's unlikely that you're going to get to a solution." - Daniel Palken, Ph.D. #CCL2025

Last year, EPRA got a vast majority of the votes in committee, in a bipartisan vote. It shows the latent opportunity of permitting reform. If you craft it right, if you set it up right, you can get bipartisan approval. - Daniel Palken, Ph.D. #CCL2025

We currently have good technology and bad policy. That's better than the reverse. Texas has massively shifted to solar and wind because the tech is better, and they've kept electricity rates low, which is critical for the clean energy transition. - Daniel Palken, Ph.D. #CCL2025

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Citizens' Climate Lobby @cclusa.org · 21/07/2025

If you combine the Inflation Reduction Act (a step forward) and the One Big Beautiful Bill (a step backward), we still have the biggest climate investment in American history. The silver lining is that the remaining policies have that bipartisan stamp of approval. - Daniel Palken, Ph.D. #CCL2025

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“Our setbacks are temporary — our momentum is real.” CCL Interim Executive Director Ricky Bradley kicks off #CCL2025 this morning!

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"We know that if they cut these clean energy programs, if they cut DOE funding for innovation, energy costs are going to rise in the future. That investment has to happen now, in order to see those benefits down the road." - Jenn Tyler at #CCL2025