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If there was ever an action team that epitomizes CCL’s commitment to relationships, comradery and focus, it’s the Writers Circle. This popular action team offers a place to get inspiration and peer support for writing letters to the editor (LTEs), op-eds, or other media efforts about climate action. Media work is important because members of ... more

March 12, 2025 Last week, CCL staff and right-of-center volunteers headed to Capitol Hill for our annual Conservative Climate Leadership Conference and Lobby Day. On Saturday, we all gathered on Zoom for CCL’s March meeting to debrief about the event. Mindy Ahler, CCL’s Congressional Liaison Program Manager, shared that 50 right-of-center ... more

By Group Leader Steve Selby CCL’s Lynchburg, Virginia, chapter has a small core of very dedicated long-time members. Elli Sparks, now CCL’s Senior Director of Field Operations, worked with our members to get the chapter started in 2014. Lynchburg is 20 miles east of the Appalachian Blue Ridge and 160 miles southwest of Washington, D.C. The city ... more

CCLers are on Capitol Hill today! This week is our 5th annual Conservative Climate Leadership Conference and Lobby Day in D.C., which means right-of-center CCLers are meeting with Republican offices throughout the day. Their goal? To build more Republican support for clean energy and climate policies that we need from Congress. We’re asking ... more

CCL’s Diversity and Inclusion Action started in May 2023 as a space where any CCLer from any background could come and learn about any aspect of diversity and inclusion. In a time when diversity initiatives — and America’s diversity itself — is under a fresh wave of very public attacks from the Trump administration , this team’s work is especially vital. ... more

Feb. 26, 2025 Last night, the House of Representatives passed a budget resolution , which means we’re in a new stage of our push to protect the Inflation Reduction Act’s climate and clean energy measures. The resolution directs all the committees in the House to either spend or cut certain amounts from their budgets for the next 10 years. The Energy & ... more

If you’ve looked at the news today, you’ve probably seen that last night (Tues., Feb. 25), the House passed a budget resolution . This is the “starting gun” that signals the real work of the congressional reconciliation process is now underway. That also means it’s time for our IRA defense work to go into full swing. We’ve prepped this Q&A for you to ... more

CCL chapters around the country are powered by passionate, dedicated people. In Oshkosh, Wisconsin, those people are Dr. Pat Dwyer-Hallquist and Dr. Shannon Davis-Foust. Shannon (pictured right), whose background is in biology and environmental science, teaches at University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Shannon joined CCL in 2015. Shannon holds a PhD ... more

Feb. 19, 2025 As you may have seen, the Trump administration is trying to curtail the work of NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “Many employees are bracing for potential staff cuts, as well as slashes to the funding that supports science within the agency and by many research partners across the country,” NPR reported on ... more

Feb. 12, 2025 Hundreds of CCL chapters and volunteers around the country gathered on Zoom this weekend for our February meeting — our first all-volunteer meeting since President Trump’s inauguration. CCL Executive Director Rachel Kerestes opened the call by recognizing the unusual pace and concerning nature of the administration’s early moves. ... more

CCL Cincinnati has recently had a flurry of local media hits, with letters published by chapter members Cindy Johnson (Jan. 16), Elaine Olund (Jan. 24), Stephen Druffel (Jan. 30), and Chris Heckman (Feb. 3). “Our city’s paper has put out a lot of climate change-related articles,” says Kelly Patterson, who co-leads the Cincinnati chapter with Tony ... more