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Pete Maysmith

@pete.lcv.org
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President @lcv.org , organizer, climate fighter.

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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 14/07/2026
70% of Utah voters support protecting #BearEars and #GrandStaircase. Tribes have worked for millenia to protect them. Trump opening the door to mining for coal and more instead says everything about who he's working for.
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 22/05/2026
Rafe was kind, smart and passionate with such wonderful warmth. He was the quintessential happy warrior. He'll be deeply missed.
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 14/04/2026
We're running ads to demand they lower our costs. They need to hear from everyone that we can't afford a 13% increase - let alone whatever they have planned next. bsky.app/profile/lcv....
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 14/04/2026
The bill itself was reckless and shortsighted - and Trump's recent actions have made the crisis even worse. That's why this morning, we announced a new investment of over $4 million focused on the members of congress who voted last year to drive energy prices up.
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 14/04/2026
In last year's tax package (that big, ugly bill) the GOP took solutions off the table, banning the quickest, most affordable energy sources. So when Trump started yet another energy crisis with his war in Iran, we were unprepared to combat the skyrocketing costs.
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 14/04/2026
Since Trump took office, home energy prices are up 13%. This isn't a story about naturally rising costs. This is a story about the consequences of bad leadership. 🧵
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 01/04/2026
Cool tool. Bad news.
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 13/03/2026
And we all know who the "we" in this sentence means.
A screenshot of Donald J Trump posting on Truth Social. The post reads "The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money. BUT, of far greater interest and importance to me, as President, is stoping an evil Empire, Iran, from having Nuclear Weapons, and destroying the Middle East and, indeed, the World. I won’t ever let that happen! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 11/03/2026
When you value human life at zero dollars, this is the outcome. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene... (h/t @seanatgreenwire.bsky.social
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E&E News: Air pollution spikes as Trump doubles down on coal power
EPA data shows pollution bumps that are among the largest in decades, just as the agency rolls back rules cracking down on pollution from coal-fired power plants.
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 06/11/2025
Simply an icon. Gracious and warm in person, a bulldog when she fights for us and the planet, we're a better country because of Nancy Pelosi. From the bottom of my heart, Madam Speaker, thank you.
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 04/11/2025
Reminder: 33 states have elections today! Make sure you cast your ballot if yours is one of them!
A crowd of people holding signs that say "VOTE"
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 30/10/2025
Cost of living, including rising energy bills, is a major issue for voters. Our state affiliates are running big campaigns in major races this fall to highlight who is focused on the issues that matter and who is making the problem even worse. Thread and memo below on key ⚡ races we’re watching 🧵👇
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 24/10/2025
The electric bills are too damn high and we need to call out who is making them higher
lcv.org
Banning Clean Energy is Costing People Money–Let’s Say So
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 01/10/2025
"It’s not enough just to wave placards and say, 'Climate change!' The point is to take actual action. To do your bit." Jane Goodall was an environmental hero who dedicated her life to protecting animals and their habitats and who understood the threat of climate change more than anyone.
abcnews.go.com
Jane Goodall, famed primatologist and conservationist, dies at 91
Jane Goodall, the most prolific primatologist of a generation, has died. She was 91 years old.
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 01/10/2025
Trump and the Republicans have shut down the government because they want to continue raising costs for everything.
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 30/09/2025
We seem to mostly scream and shout at each other about disagreements. Here's an exception - pretty much everyone wants dangerous chemicals out of our food. Now we just need Congressional Republicans to pay attention. bit.ly/46sdA80
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Congress tries to shut down action on dangerous PFAS in fertilizer 'in the dark of night'
Earlier this month, we reported about a potential health risk being spread on American farms and invading our food and milk supply. Fertilizer made from human w
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 29/09/2025
Shared this on LinkedIn the other day, but think with a shutdown looming and horrible news, it’s good to share here too. Here’s what’s keeping me hopeful about the coming months bit.ly/42cERZq
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Hope is what fuels us as people
I spent most of last week at an LCV all staff retreat, and early one morning before we began, I walked out on a little pier just before sunrise. One of the organizers on our team (a fellow early bird)...
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 28/09/2025
Threatening people’s healthcare and livelihoods to please your mega-donors isn’t leadership.
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 27/09/2025
Happy Public Lands Day from past me celebrating the designation of Camp Hale as a national monument. Looking forward to the day we can celebrate like this again.
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 26/09/2025
CON JOB ALERT! Trump's "energy dominance" is ALL HAT and NO CATTLE. STRONG piece from @sammyroth.bsky.social
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 19/09/2025
These were projects that dealt with sewage leaks and flooding and lowered cancer rates. They are not partisan projects; no one wants sewage in their homes. Stop this nonsense - don’t do things that hurt people. wapo.st/4gt1yhV
wapo.st
Black communities, shaken by Trump cuts, feel ‘left behind again’
The Trump administration has canceled nearly two dozen projects, according to a Post analysis, undermining efforts on pollution, sewage leaks and flooding.
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 17/09/2025
How ‘bout we focus on the real problem: Trump banning clean energy and insisting on expensive, dirty energy - instead of victim blaming us for running the AC in the summer.
A photo of a bus. On the side of it is an ad that suggests people undertake a home energy audit.
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 12/09/2025
Don’t know about you but I’d really like to know what’s being pumped into the air I breathe.
cnn.com
Trump admin won’t make polluters report how much they’ve polluted | CNN
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin framed the new steps as a move to end burdensome regulations. Climate advocates blasted it as a way to give polluters a free pass.
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 10/09/2025
I do this work because I want a country and a world that is safe for everyone. That includes those whose views I vehemently disagree with. Violence does not have a place in our world.
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 08/09/2025
The cost of canceling offshore wind projects is more than just lost jobs and wasted work – it’s higher rates for everyone paying bills: bit.ly/4mW4XrK
utilitydive.com
3.5 GW of offshore wind in New England could offset natural gas price spikes: report
Offshore wind in the region could have offset the surge in natural gas prices last winter and saved ratepayers $400 million, according to a report from Daymark Energy Advisors.
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 05/09/2025
Dissent is patriotic. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi…
washingtonpost.com
Trump officials fire EPA employees for signing dissent letter
The move to terminate the staffers marks an escalation in the Trump administration’s effort to clamp down on dissent within the federal bureaucracy.
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 04/09/2025
We always say that elections have consequences, but it’s also the case that bad votes in Congress have consequences: politi.co/4lTarCp
politico.com
In windy Iowa, a GOP lawmaker faces a reckoning over Trump’s clean energy war
Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks held her seat by a razor-thin margin in 2024, but could see her support erode because of her vote to end incentives for renewable energy.
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 03/09/2025
Wildland firefighters are the best among us. Terrorizing them makes us all less safe, not more. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/c…
seattletimes.com
Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire
Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 29/08/2025
Killing clean energy projects means killing jobs and raising bills. 64,000 jobs already lost or at risk. 400,000 more on the line. The future is clean energy—and that’s where we must invest.
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 29/08/2025
More storms will brew in the Atlantic this summer, and we're unprepared to forecast and respond to them. If you remember what it felt like that day in 2005, and you want to do something, call your Senators. Tell them to insist Trump fund FEMA, NOAA and all the agencies that protect us.
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 29/08/2025
Working for environmental justice means working to prevent more Katrinas, and Irmas, and Harveys, and Marias. It's working to protect the communities who're being hit the hardest AND to stop the climate crisis full stop so storms like these don't continue to grow and grow.
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 29/08/2025
20 years ago today I'd just moved into a new house with my two young kids. I remember watching coverage of Katrina, wondering if we had space to take in a displaced family, wondering what I could do to prevent it happening again.
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 28/08/2025
I also recently saw this great blog post from @ucs.org that I think is great for sharing with anyone in your life who doesn’t know what NOAA does
blog.ucs.org
What Does NOAA Do for Us, and How Can We Defend It?
The Trump administration has attempted to cut staff at a vital agency that keeps us safe. Here's what we can do about it.
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 28/08/2025
This is the kind of specific, life-impacting legislation that shouldn’t be partisan – everyone wants good weather reporting.
subscriber.politicopro.com
E&E News: Democrats line up behind bill to protect NOAA offices
The legislation would halt the termination of leases or ceasing of construction.
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 20/08/2025
When you CUT OFF WIND AND SOLAR (which MANY smart people say are the CHEAPEST, CLEANEST and MOST BEAUTIFUL energy sources) prices WILL GO UP. The ones raising energy prices are TRUMP, and the OIL and GAS COMPANIES who gave him $1BILLION.
A screenshot of a Donald J. Trump Truth Social Post. The text lies: 

Any State that has build and relied on WINDMILLS and SOLAR for power are seeing RECORD BREAKING INCREASES IN ELECTRICITY AND ENERGY COSTSS. THE SCAM OF THE CENTURY! We will not approve wind or farmer destroying Solar. The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!! MAGA
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 20/08/2025
Here's a potential perfect storm risk: uncertain increasing electric from data centers + Trump admin banning clean energy = higher prices and dirtier air for rate payers. We need our legislators to invest in scalable, affordable clean energy solutions before it's too late. @coloradosun.com
coloradosun.com
Xcel says it needs to spend $22 billion to keep up with potential demand from Colorado data centers by 2040
Figuring out how much demand there will be in the next 15 years is tricky. Overbuilding could leave customers on the hook, experts say.
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 11/08/2025
This president taking control of a local police force is an abuse of power and textbook authoritarianism, full stop. DC crime is at a 30 year low. Statehood now is the answer.
nytimes.com
Live Updates: Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 01/08/2025
Good to see this from @aflcio.org
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 09/07/2025
In the west, we value our public lands as our birthright. In Wyoming, in Colorado, in Montana, in Idaho and nationwide thousands of people are turning out to say “you will not sell off our public lands!”
apnews.com
Trump administration weighs new coal sales from public lands in Montana and Wyoming
Federal officials are considering reopening vast areas of public lands in Wyoming and Montana to new coal sales.
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 08/07/2025
Executive orders like this one (once again, released in the middle of the night) are how the Trump regime is going to implement the horrors of their Rate Hike. Deliberately opaque language can’t disguise that this order aims to ban clean energy, and that it will raise energy prices.
A screenshot of a White House executive order from July 7, 2025. The title of the order reads "Ending Market Distorting Subsidies for Unreliable, Foreign Controlled Energy Sources"
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 08/07/2025
In an era of ever-expanding climate disasters, it’s more important than ever that we properly fund and staff warning systems at every level. www.cnn.com/2025/07/07/u...
cnn.com
Local officials facing questions over lack of preparations in the years and hours before deadly Texas floods | CNN
As Central Texas reels from flash floods that killed over 100 people this weekend, questions are sharpening about whether officials could have done more to avert the tragedy – both in the decades lead...
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 03/07/2025
Every increasingly expensive monthly utility bill should come with a stamp: "This Rate Hike brought to you by Republicans in Congress."
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 03/07/2025
Even Fox’s polling showed the Republican rate hike 21 points underwater – nobody wanted this and it’s our job for the next two years to make sure everyone knows exactly who’s delivered this cost-raising, job-killing, air-and-water-polluting mess to us. www.foxnews.com/politics/ame...
foxnews.com
Americans weigh in on Trump's 'big, beautiful bill': polls
The "big, beautiful bill" is viewed unfavorably by most Americans, who say it is likely to hurt their families, according to the latest Fox News Poll.
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 03/07/2025
The fight doesn’t end with this bill – in fact it’s only beginning. We got within one vote of stopping it and that’s a testament to massive organizing against a horrible bill across the political spectrum. Now the fight begins to stop it in the states.
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U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor @usrepkathycastor.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Thanks to President Trump and Congressional Republicans selling out our planet and pocketbooks to Big Oil and Gas.... You get a higher electric bill! Your neighbor gets a higher electric bill! EVERYONE gets a higher electric bill!
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 03/07/2025
Rep @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is giving us time to fight this thing. Have you called yet this morning?
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 02/07/2025
This is one piece of why working for a fair democracy and working for a healthy planet are so intertwined, and why LCV works on both democracy and climate issues:
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Senator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov · 29/06/2025
President Trump ran on lowering costs, but his bill makes energy more expensive and Michiganders will pay 8% more for energy costs. via www.cnn.com/2025/06/27/c...
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Pete Maysmith @pete.lcv.org · 02/07/2025
This fight isn’t over until its over, and we’re not close to done fighting. #BigUglyBill
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 01/07/2025
The ugliness of this bill doesn't stop. Senate Republicans also voted against your right to breathe clean air.
The BBB rescinds funding for pretty much every clean air, pollution control program.
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