CCL Community Bulletin

Aug. 12, 2026 Are you ready to take your climate advocacy skills to the next level? The new BRIDGE Action Team might just be the perfect place for you. The BRIDGE (Building Relationships in Dialogue, Growth, and Engagement) Program was launched in January 2026 to help CCL volunteers master the relational advocacy skills needed to truly advance climate ... more

Aug. 5, 2026 We’re back home from a busy Lobby Day in D.C., and now, it’s August in a midterm election year. You know what that means: Campaign season is ramping up here in the United States.  At CCL, our election work happens with candidates on both sides of the aisle, allowing us to make a positive impact on the upcoming midterm elections while staying true ... more

It’s our favorite week of the year  CCL volunteers and staff just wrapped up our 2026 Summer Conference and Lobby Day in D.C., with around 850 CCLers in attendance from all 50 states. At our conference on Monday, we had a busy day of lobby preparations and programming, including hearing from keynote speaker Jigar Shah. Then we held more than 400 meetings ... more

July 22, 2026 Image source: Washington Post Millions of Americans based in the Midwest, Northeast, and Mid-Atlantic experienced extremely unhealthy air quality over the past week as smoke from Canadian wildfires drifted across the U.S.  Eighteen cities issued air quality alerts, including major metropolitan areas like Chicago, Detroit, New ... more

July 15, 2026 CCL is well-known for our big annual Lobby Day on Capitol Hill — but did you know we're on Capitol Hill at other times, too? Just this week, 10 CCLers attended a targeted day of advocacy in D.C. in partnership with our friends at Dream.org. These volunteers came to D.C. from elsewhere on the East Coast, like New Jersey, New York, Florida, and ... more

July 8, 2026   Saturday marked the 250th anniversary of America's independence. “This moment invites us to look beyond the partisan politics of our time and deeply reflect” on “values that span right and left — family, faith, hard work, patriotism,” said Sen. John Curtis (R-UT) in a press release and to local media . To do that reflection, the Senator ... more

July 1, 2026 For more than a decade, carbon pricing has been at the heart of Citizens’ Climate Lobby’s work. Our reputation as a trusted voice on carbon pricing wasn't built overnight — it came from years of careful research, thoughtful advocacy, and a commitment to understanding the evidence behind effective climate policy. Now, CCL is partnering ... more

Jun. 24, 2026 We’re just a month away from our biggest lobby event of the year on Capitol Hill. On July 28, hundreds of CCLers from across the country will gather on Capitol Hill for a full day of meetings with members of Congress to advocate for clean energy and climate policies. To prepare for this year’s Lobby Day, we’re diving deep into CCL’s BRIDGE ... more

Jun. 17, 2026 Guest speaker Tyson Bertone-Riggs, co-founder and co-director of the Alliance for Wildfire Resilience, graciously joined us for June’s Monthly Meeting last Saturday. Bertone-Riggs brought a wealth of expertise from his work on wildfire policy and emphasized the importance of being on Capitol Hill, in person, to advocate for ... more

Jun. 10, 2026 We’re excited to announce that Marc Hafstead will join CCL’s 2026 Summer Conference & Lobby Day lineup as a featured speaker!  Marc Hafstead is a fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF) and Director of RFF’s Carbon Pricing Initiative. He joined RFF in 2013 from Stanford University, where he received his PhD in 2011 and then spent two years ... more

June 3, 2026 That’s a wrap on CCL’s six-month permitting reform training series! Led by CCL’s Government Affairs and Research Teams and featuring staffers Jennifer Tyler, VP of Government Affairs, and Dana Nuccitelli, Research Manager, this training series was designed to provide an advanced level of training to CCL volunteers interested in ... more

May 27, 2026 Do you ever find yourself wondering how exactly our advocacy work translates into real change in Congress? How a lobby meeting, a tabling event, a letter to the editor, or a relationship built over years actually help move climate policy forward? That’s exactly what we explore in CCL’s recent training on our Theory of Change . In this special ... more