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Ventura County Chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby. Let’s put a #PriceOnCarbon! www.cclventura.org

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Conejo Climate Coalition @conejoclimate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Southern California swelters as late-season heatwave smothers region Temperatures expected to hover around 100F in downtown LA and even hotter inland, raising concerns about wildfires
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Southern California swelters as late-season heatwave smothers region
Temperatures expected to hover around 100F in downtown LA and even hotter inland, raising concerns about wildfires
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Environmental Voter Project @environmentalvoter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Climate change is a top priority for lots of voters in two of this fall's most important US Senate elections. The data: 🔗 www.environmentalvoter.org/.../2026Batt...
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Climate First: Replacing Oil & Gas (CFROG) @cfrogvc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Join Californians across the state standing together in opposition to offshore oil & gas drilling! 📢 🌊 📅 Saturday, September 26 from 11:00-12:30 pm 🏖️ C Street Beach, West of Ventura Pier RSVP at bit.ly/handsacrosssandvc @indivisiblevent.bsky.social @50501venturacounty.bsky.social
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Climate First: Replacing Oil & Gas (CFROG) @cfrogvc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Thanks to your advocacy Santa Barbara County is one step closer to a fossil fuel-free future! On Sep 15, Supervisors approved ordinance amendments to prohibit the drilling of new wells. We appreciate Sup. Capps, Hartmann, and Lee's leadership to protect public health, our environment, and economy!
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Climate First: Replacing Oil & Gas (CFROG) @cfrogvc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Desde los incendios forestales hasta el polvo y los gases de escape de los vehículos, la contaminación del aire nos rodea. Para obtener más información sobre la contaminación del aire por carbono negro y consultar la calidad del aire de hoy en Oxnard y Port Hueneme, visite myoxnardair.org.
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Climate First: Replacing Oil & Gas (CFROG) @cfrogvc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
From wildfires to dust & vehicle exhaust, air pollution is all around us. Knowing what the air quality is is the first step to understanding how we can protect ourselves. To learn more about black carbon pollution & check today’s air quality in Oxnard & Port Hueneme, visit www.myoxnardair.org.
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 04/09/2026
A journey to the frontline of Nepal’s disastrous floods – podcast
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A journey to the frontline of Nepal’s disastrous floods – podcast
The Guardian’s Hannah Ellis-Petersen tells Annie Kelly about her journey to some of Nepal’s worst-hit areas, and what she found there
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Citizens' Climate Lobby @cclusa.org · 01/09/2026
This month marks our final deep-drive training into CCL's BRIDGE advocacy training program. This is your sign to catch up on all 9 training sections and join us Thursday, Sept. 4 at 8 pm ET for our final training on The Art of Climate Storytelling. RSVP: cclusa.org/bridge9
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Climate First: Replacing Oil & Gas (CFROG) @cfrogvc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
On 9/5, CFROG will be hosting a sign-making party for the Hands Across the Sand event on 9/26! Stop by our office on Saturday from 1-3pm to make some art, hang out with community, and escape the heat! RSVP & more info: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Climate First: Replacing Oil & Gas (CFROG) @cfrogvc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
September 15, 530pm, at Topa Topa Colt HQ - join Climate Conversations and Ventura County Climate Voices for a trivia night to save the planet! Assemble your team of 6 (or less) and join us for an evening of climate-inspired questions & win fun prizes from known local organizations 👀
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This seems like a very good question
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Citizens' Climate Lobby @cclusa.org · 31/08/2026
It's not fair that those who have done the least to cause climate change are facing climate impacts like these. That's why we're pushing Congress to act. The U.S. is responsible for nearly 5 billion metric tons of global emissions every year. Things need to change — fast.
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Flood-Ravaged Nepal on Alert as Scientists Warn of Additional Risk - Inside Climate News
Earth scientists are in the early stages of analyzing the devastating debris flow but say it fits a pattern fueled by global warming.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-growin... That glacier collapse left 99 percent of the ice up there—and there are tens of thousands of glaciers in the region If we’re serious about stopping this, we need all-out climate action now
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The growing rumble
Politics--alas--is what we need
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Environmental Voter Project @environmentalvoter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The midterms are 9 weeks away, and we've got so many ways for you to mobilize climate voters in September. 🔗 www.environmentalvoter.org/get-involved
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Conejo Climate Coalition @conejoclimate.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Take action!
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Forest Service chief faces scrutiny over logging ties as Trump plans to scrap protections
Rollback of ‘roadless rule’ expected to benefit companies US Forest Service chief, Tom Schultz, previously lobbied for
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Environmental Voter Project @environmentalvoter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Fossil fuel companies are cooking us for profit. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
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The ocean just broke a temperature record that may have stood for millennia
Average global sea surface temperatures have reached a new high, rising to nearly 70 degrees Fahrenheit late last week — potentially for the first time in millennia.
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Citizens' Climate Lobby @cclusa.org · 24/08/2026
Persistent, solution-oriented action. Way to go!! 👏👏
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Huge California win for plug in solar, so many thanks to all who fought for it, including my Third Act Cali colleagues. Oh, and sponsor Scott Wiener! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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California Becomes Latest State to Approve Plug-in Solar
States across the country are letting residents install small solar systems without utility permission.
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Conejo Climate Coalition @conejoclimate.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Join us TONIGHT, August 26th for a town hall at Dos Vientos Community Center in Thousand Oaks to learn what proposed changes to the Roadless Rule could mean for our forests and public lands. Registration: ow.ly/Yqal50ZvRy8
Th Furure of Our Wild Roadless Forests Town Hall Flyer. More information in body of post and at link provided.
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Climate First: Replacing Oil & Gas (CFROG) @cfrogvc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Calling all ocean protectors and climate advocates! 📅 Saturday, September 26 from 11:00-12:30 pm 🏖️ C Street Beach, West of Ventura Pier Join Californians across the state standing together in opposition to offshore oil and gas drilling. bit.ly/handsacrosssandvc
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Citizens’ Climate Lobby Austin, Texas USA @cclatx.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
#NetZeroHero #CityofAustin
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Net-Zero Hero: CJ Williams
Meet our newest Net-Zero Hero: CJ Williams. After finding their way into a green career, CJ recently became the newest Land Manager for Travis Audubon’s Blair Woods Nature Preserve.
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Ventura County Citizens’ Climate Lobby @vcccl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This Saturday, come visit our booth at the Wild & Scenic Film Festival 2026 at The Majestic Ventura Theater in Ventura, CA! The Wild & Scenic Film Festival, Ventura Land Trust's annual benefit, inspires environmental activism and a love for nature through film. 🎥 🌎
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Wild & Scenic Film Festival 2026
The Wild & Scenic Film Festival, Ventura Land Trust's annual benefit, inspires environmental activism and a love for nature through film.
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Citizens' Climate Lobby @cclusa.org · 20/08/2026
Over 90% of new power capacity built in the U.S. in the first half of 2026 was clean! The latest U.S. Energy Information Administration data, analyzed by @insideclimatenews.org, shows solar, wind, and battery storage are doing the heavy lifting to help America meet its energy demands.
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Climate First: Replacing Oil & Gas (CFROG) @cfrogvc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
💵 ⚡ 🏘️ Earn up to $500 + possible no-cost home energy improvements! 3C BEACH is a home air‑quality research project that helps families better understand their indoor air, improve comfort, and explore potential no‑cost electric upgrades. Learn how you can benefit: sustain.venturacounty.gov/3cbeach/
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Environmental Voter Project @environmentalvoter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"The Trump administration Tuesday proposed a full repeal of a rule that for decades has prevented road-building and logging inside tens of millions of acres of near-pristine national forests." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Trump seeks to open millions of acres of national forests to roads
The Trump administration proposed a repeal of the 2001 “roadless rule,” raising concerns among environmentalists that already-threatened woodlands could be further fragmented.
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Citizens' Climate Lobby @cclusa.org · 19/08/2026
Lobby Day is our biggest advocacy event of the year, where hundreds of CCL volunteers come to Capitol Hill to talk about climate and clean energy. And after all our hard work? A dance party, of course. Thanks to everyone who worked to make this year's #LobbyDay a success! #CCLinDC
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/08/2026
Gallup found seven out of ten Americans would be opposed to a data center in their backyard, with nearly half of those surveyed (48 percent) “strongly opposed” to data centers in their area.
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Turns out, nobody wants a data center in their backyard
Your local anti-AI organizer is probably not a CCP plant.
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Conejo Climate Coalition @conejoclimate.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🧵 2/ Join us for a town hall at Dos Vientos Community Center in Thousand Oaks on August 26 to learn what proposed changes to the Roadless Rule could mean for our forests and public lands. Registration: ow.ly/Yqal50ZvRy8
Flyer: THE FUTURE OF OUR WILD ROADLESS
FORESTS
Wed, August 26 6:00-8:30 PM
25 years ago, the US Forest Service held more than 600 public meetings in the process to create the Roadless Rule, one of the most important conservation measures in history-and it could soon be repealed.
Dos Vientos
Community Center
4801 Borchard Rd.
Newbury Park, CA
The Forest Service's process to repeal may not include a single public meeting - so our community is hosting our own.
Join us to speak up for your national forests.
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Conejo Climate Coalition @conejoclimate.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🧵 1/ Trump administration to rescind rule protecting old growth forests Almost 45m acres of national forests could be potentially opened to road construction, drilling and logging [Come to our Roadless Rule Town Hall—details in post below]
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Trump administration to rescind rule protecting old growth forests
Almost 45m acres of national forests could be potentially opened to road construction, drilling and logging
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 17/08/2026
Extreme heat more dangerous for people 60 and over than previously thought
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Extreme heat more dangerous for people 60 and over than previously thought
Study finds older adults could face harmful heat stress at just 1.5C of warming above preindustrial levels
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Trump's gutting of the federal workforce has left firefighters overworked, under-resourced and scrambling to keep as climate-fueled blaze burn across the West. Absolutely gutting story: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/c...
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Federal Job Cuts Are Making Wildfires Harder to Fight
The Trump administration pushed out thousands of veteran U.S. Forest Service staff. An ‘extraordinary’ fire season is testing those who are left.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Add this one to your climate vocabulary: "Snow-eater" heat waves are melting Western snowpack twice as fast, according to a new study. www.kunr.org/local-storie...
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'Snow-eater' heat waves are melting western snowpack twice as fast, study finds
Scientists have a new name for a weather pattern reshaping how the West gets its water: so-called “snow-eater” heat waves.
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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Climate crises are food crises.
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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"By some estimates, surging AI load growth has already led to the delayed retirement of more than a dozen coal plants, slowing a decades-long shift away from coal in the U.S. power sector."
latitudemedia.com
In the Midwest, more coal power for data centers
As utility tariff approvals make data center pipelines less speculative, Evergy doubles down on existing plants.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 18/08/2026
NEW – Explainer: How the ‘super El Niño’ will reshape the world’s weather ✍️ written by @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org & @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org 🎨 designed by @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org & @jjgoodman.bsky.social Read here ➡️ buff.ly/CIZnhHs
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Explainer: How the ‘super El Niño’ will reshape the world’s weather
The world is currently experiencing what is expected to become the strongest El Niño on record – dubbed a “super El Niño” by many.
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Los Padres ForestWatch @forestwatch.org · 17/08/2026
We’re proud to be a Community Partner for Ventura Land Trust’s Wild & Scenic Film Festival this Saturday! Join us downtown for inspiring films, community festivities, and a celebration of the places we love. Hope to see you there!
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/08/2026
Just reinforcing this. There is a noticeable resurgence in despair; likely associated with the various summer catastrophes Nothing wrong with warning of dangers, but far too many big accounts make helplessness and inevitability their main message, and that VERY DIRECTLY helps fossil fuel companies
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Citizens' Climate Lobby @cclusa.org · 17/08/2026
Part 1 of our Carbon Pricing Education Series kicks off Sept. 3! Everyone is welcome: cclusa.org/part-1 This session will cover carbon pricing basics & explore how researchers talk about it. We will also examine key design elements to consider when crafting new policy.
Carbon Pricing education series promotional graphic. Six-part virtual learning series September 2026-March 2027. cclusa.org/carbon-pricing-series. Featuring Resources for the Future and Citizens' Climate Lobby logos.
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Climate First: Replacing Oil & Gas (CFROG) @cfrogvc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
🗓️ 👥 🌍 Save the date for one of the most fun community celebrations and fundraisers in Ventura County -- our Cheers to CFROG event! Join us on Saturday, October 3 and RSVP at www.eventbrite.com/e/cheers-to-...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Happy Fourth Anniversary, Inflation Reduction Act. For those who think they get to deliver a eulogy, read on:
NYT: Biden Signs Expansive, Health, Climate and Tax Law headline with photo, August 16, 2022
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IL Energy Network @ilenergynetwork.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Federal judge backs Oak Park's all-electric building rule in Illinois, rejects gas lawsuit
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Federal judge backs Oak Park's all-electric building rule in Illinois, rejects gas lawsuit
"This ruling is about what is right and what our planet urgently needs."
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Ventura County Citizens’ Climate Lobby @vcccl.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Today!👇
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Ventura County Citizens’ Climate Lobby @vcccl.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Tomorrow! ☕️👇
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Why are today’s data centers more of a concern than they used to be?
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Citizens' Climate Lobby @cclusa.org · 14/08/2026
Americans paid $217 on average for electricity last month. #CleanEnergy is less susceptible to dramatic price fluctuations and helps keep utilities like electricity affordable. We need to reform the permitting process to bring more clean energy online and connected to the grid 📈 #permittingreform
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Electricity Bills Were Higher Than Ever in July
Americans paid $217 on average for electricity last month, according to Heatmap and MIT’s Electricity Price Hub.
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Ventura County Citizens’ Climate Lobby @vcccl.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Join us for Coffee and Climate on Sunday, August 16 1:00PM - 4:00PM at Tree Lounge Coffee in Camarillo's Old Town District. ☕️ Tree Lounge Coffee is located at 2364 Ventura Blvd, Camarillo, CA 93010. This is an indoor venue -- we want to beat the heat! 😎
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Bugs Bunny's 'One Cup A Day' Coffee Meme
Alt: Bugs Bunny's 'One Cup A Day' Coffee Meme.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Last month was the hottest in U.S. history, and tied for the hottest ever recorded on our home planet. billmckibben.substack.com/p/fun-with-n...
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Fun with numbers
A datacenter is an oil well, and other insights
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Important salvage work underway here, from @weatherwest.bsky.social and others. Many thanks!
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 14/08/2026
The Great Barrier Reef isn’t dead yet. According to News Corp that makes climate science a ‘pseudo-religion’ | Temperature Check
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The Great Barrier Reef isn’t dead yet. According to News Corp that makes climate science a ‘pseudo-religion’ | Temperature Check
‘High coral cover is evidence of recovery and resilience, not evidence that the disturbances causing mortality didn’t happen’, scientist says
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
To those who say we can simply bulwark ourselves against climate change... www.latimes.com/environment/... via @nohaggerty.bsky.social
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The percentage of homes surviving California wildfires is dropping, despite efforts to harden them
At the turn of the century, wildfires destroyed only about 3% of the California homes they came into contact with. By 2020, the rate had risen to 18%, a new study found.
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