CCL Community Bulletin

Since last week’s Weekly Briefing, CCL volunteers rallied at the call to action, smashing the goal of 10,000 contacts to Congress. Currently, CCL volunteers have made 11,808 contacts to the President and to the Senate. Now we’re reaching for the next big milestone: 15,000 contacts. While Congress is currently focused on voting rights to begin the ... more

  January 5, 2022 CCL announced on Tuesday morning that we are starting a three-week campaign to contact Congress and the White House. This campaign will help to keep pressure on the importance of climate policies, including a carbon price, in the Build Back Better Act.  President Biden has pledged to cut America’s carbon pollution 50% by 2030, and a ... more

Each month, Citizens’ Climate Lobby supporters gather locally for a  monthly meeting  where we educate ourselves by listening to a guest speaker. Go to your  local chapter's page  to find out more about your chapter's plans for listening in.  January's Monthly Meeting took place on Saturday, Jan. 8th at 1:00 pm ET   and featured a conversation with ... more

By Brett Cease, CCL Education & Engagement Director As we transition to the new year of 2022 ,here's a quick window back to the busiest places and most popular pages on CCL Community throughout 2021. This year, CCL expanded the many features the action tracker provides including prominent goal cards for current campaigns and the ability to track ... more

December 22, 2021 Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) released a statement on Sunday indicating that he “cannot move forward” with the Build Back Better Act. Reactions were swift, with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announcing on Monday that the Senate will hold a vote on a revised version of the Build Back Better Act “very early in the new year.”  So, what do ... more

December 15, 2021 The Senate Finance Committee, which is responsible for portions of the Build Back Better bill that could contain a price on carbon, released a draft of some legislative text over the weekend. Though a carbon tax was not mentioned in the committee’s text, Chairman Ron Wyden said the draft is not the final version of the bill. In a message  ... more

December 8, 2021 In a  letter to CCL supporters this week , CCL Executive Director Mark Reynolds announced that he will be joining CCL’s governing board next year, and current CCL President Madeleine Para will take the reins. “Mark’s extraordinary vision and inspirational leadership as CCL’s first executive director has been transformational for ... more

Note: Mark's letter first appeared on CCL's Blog Dear volunteers, The last few months have been an incredible season in CCL’s advocacy. The policy we’ve worked on for so long is now an  integral part  of the national policy discussion, with a possibility that it will become law. We still need to make it across the finish line, of course, but the progress ... more

Each month, Citizens’ Climate Lobby supporters gather locally for a  monthly meeting  where we educate ourselves by listening to a guest speaker. Go to your  local chapter's page  to find out more about your chapter's plans for listening in.  December's Monthly Meeting took place on Saturday, Dec. 11th at 1:00 pm ET   and featured a conversation ... more

December 1, 2021 Looking for that perfect gift this holiday season? How about a livable world? Citizens' Climate officially launched our year-end fundraiser yesterday, and we are happy to report that we exceeded our Giving Tuesday goal of $300,000, bringing in a total of $310,434! Thank you so much to everyone who pitched in! But, we’re not ready for ... more

Help us reach our year-end goal of $1.5 million so that we can train more volunteers, reach more of Congress, and pass more climate legislation in 2022! Visit www.citizensclimatelobby.org/donate/   Help us fight for climate policies that will hit the goal of 50% by 2030. With your help, we’ll get it done.  Why give? Our volunteers do the most important ... more

November 24, 2021 Last week, CCL volunteers across the country were busy doing what they do best: lobbying Congress. CCLers met with congressional offices as the U.S. House passed its version of the Build Back Better Act, major legislation that includes a $555 billion investment in climate solutions. As attention turns to the Senate, CCL’s lobbying ... more