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  • 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
  • Weekly Briefing: Senate passes budget bill; Several Senators speak up for clean energy
    Weekly Briefing: Senate passes budget bill; Several Senators speak up for clean energy
    July 2, 2025 Yesterday afternoon, the Senate passed its version of the budget reconciliation bill that dramatically rolls back America’s clean energy tax credits. “This is an incredibly pivotal policy moment,” said Jenn Tyler, CCL’s VP of Government Affairs (pictured above) during a training on Monday night before the vote. “We know, right now, our ... more
  • Featured chapter: CCL West Los Angeles
    Featured chapter: CCL West Los Angeles
    CCL’s West Los Angeles chapter has had “a very challenging 2025 so far,” say group leaders Gerda Newbold and Kathy Seal, beginning with several of their longtime members losing their homes in the Palisades fire. “Additionally, the hostility toward—and active dismantling of—climate legislation by the current administration has been difficult to ... more
  • Weekly Briefing: These times call for us to hold the line on climate
    Weekly Briefing: These times call for us to hold the line on climate
    June 25, 2025 “About 128 million Americans from Louisiana to Maine are under heat advisories Wednesday amid a severe heat wave impacting much of the U.S.,” CBS News reported this morning. “Extreme heat is only becoming more common,” TIME points out . “In the United States, heat waves now occur three times as often as they did in the 1960s, and [...] ... more
  • Weekly Briefing: Senate makes some improvements — our defense work continues
    Weekly Briefing: Senate makes some improvements — our defense work continues
    June 18, 2025 On Monday, the Senate Finance Committee released its portion of the big budget bill that’s working its way through Congress. After the House passed a version of this bill that drastically cuts America’s clean energy tax credits, we’ve been pushing hard on the Senate — and the Senate Finance Committee in particular — to do a better job ... more

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