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  • Weekly Briefing: Time to take advantage of clean energy tax credits
    Weekly Briefing: Time to take advantage of clean energy tax credits
    August 27, 2025 Over the last few weeks (months, years!) we’ve talked a lot about the Inflation Reduction Act’s climate measures — they helped avoid a billion tons of climate pollution and have been critical drivers of job growth and clean energy projects across America. With the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, many of those measures are set to ... more
  • Weekly Briefing: What we achieved by passing and protecting the IRA
    Weekly Briefing: What we achieved by passing and protecting the IRA
    August 20, 2025 Saturday, August 16, marked the three-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act — a piece of landmark climate legislation that CCL helped support. “Over its first two-plus years, the IRA spurred hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy investments and a rapid deployment of projects like solar farms and battery storage ... more
  • Featured Action Team: Meteorologist Outreach Action Team
    Featured Action Team: Meteorologist Outreach Action Team
    CCL’s Meteorologist Outreach Action Team has recognized more than a dozen meteorologists with a “Climate Coverage Champion Award” nationwide — now, the Charlotte area is lucky to claim two of those champions as their own! The latest recipient is Brandon Lawson, a meteorologist for the local Queen City News, pictured above with CCLers Mark Taylor and ... more
  • Weekly Briefing: Our message to the EPA
    Weekly Briefing: Our message to the EPA
    August 13, 2025 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently proposed to rescind its 2009 endangerment finding, which forms the basis of all federal climate pollution regulations, explains CCL Research Manager Dana Nuccitelli in a new blog post. “Without the endangerment finding, the EPA may not be allowed or able to regulate greenhouse gas ... more
  • Weekly Briefing: After Lobby Day, Congress is listening
    Weekly Briefing: After Lobby Day, Congress is listening
    August 6, 2025 Just a few weeks ago, CCL volunteers held 402 lobby meetings with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. We know we made a big impression on Congress, with at least 10 lawmakers posting about our visits on social media in the days following our visit. And now, we’re seeing that they didn’t just notice us — they listened to us. One of our Lobby Day asks was ... more
  • Featured chapter: CCL Lorain County
    Featured chapter: CCL Lorain County
    CCL’s Lorain County chapter has gotten some great local media attention for their volunteers’ recent trip to D.C. for CCL’s Summer Conference and Lobby Day! A reporter at the Chronicle-Telegram covered Lobby Day from several angles over the last few weeks. Coverage began with a story on July 16 , making clear that CCLers were headed to D.C. to “push for ... more
  • Weekly Briefing: Permitting reform ramps up
    Weekly Briefing: Permitting reform ramps up
    July 29, 2025 With the budget reconciliation process complete, Congress can now turn its attention to other priorities. One of those is permitting reform, which is critical to speeding up America's clean energy development. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA-01) said in an interview last week that “GOP leadership will work on advancing ... more
  • Weekly Briefing: See our D.C. snapshots and support our message
    Weekly Briefing: See our D.C. snapshots and support our message
    July 23, 2025 Another incredible CCL Lobby Day in the books! Today’s Weekly Briefing is a short one because CCL’s staff has been busy supporting our biggest annual show of force for climate action in D.C. Yesterday, more than 800 CCL volunteers went to Capitol Hill. After kicking off the morning with our annual group photo on the Capitol steps (pictured ... more
  • Weekly Briefing: CCLers hit the Hill for Lobby Day next week
    Weekly Briefing: CCLers hit the Hill for Lobby Day next week
    July 16, 2025 CCL’s Summer Conference and Lobby Day is less than a week away! CCLers from all around the country will be on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, July 22, holding hundreds of meetings with Congress. Our visit comes just weeks after Congress passed a major budget reconciliation bill that significantly rolls back clean energy measures we were lobbying ... more
  • Featured: Braver Angels Action Team
    Featured: Braver Angels Action Team
    Listening, staying respectful, working together — these are skills that are sorely lacking in today’s political landscape and public life. They’re also skills that CCL’s Braver Angels Action Team works to help you strengthen! Last week, the Action Team held a training called “Skills for Disagreeing Better,” aimed at helping people communicate ... more
  • Weekly Briefing: Reconciliation bill is now law; Our advocacy led to better outcomes
    Weekly Briefing: Reconciliation bill is now law; Our advocacy led to better outcomes
    July 9, 2025 The budget reconciliation bill that has been working its way through Congress for months cleared its final hurdle through Congress when it passed the House last week. It reached President Trump’s desk for a signature on July 4. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act — now law — strikes a serious blow to America’s clean energy progress and therefore to ... more
  • Featured chapter: CCL Indiana
    Featured chapter: CCL Indiana
    Like many volunteers across the country, the folks in CCL Indiana have been hard at work urging their lawmakers to protect America’s clean energy tax credits in the budget reconciliation bill working its way through Congress. This week, their efforts earned some fantastic media coverage in their local newspaper! “As it stands, that bill would really ... more

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