Weekly Briefing: Permitting reform advanced training series wraps up

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 advancing smart, clean energy permitting reform policy. 

Thanks to all the volunteers who attended the sessions live and now have a deeper understanding of this important climate policy topic. You’re ready for better communication with peers, community members, local leaders and members of Congress. If you didn’t join the series live — and especially if you’re joining us in Washington, D.C. for this year’s Summer Conference & Lobby Day — now is your chance to watch these trainings and ensure you’re confident with these concepts! 

The series has found a permanent home in the Permitting Reform Training Hub on CCL Community. Start with these two introductory trainings:

• Introduction to Permitting Reform Basics: Start here. What are 'permitting' and 'permitting reform,' why does CCL consider it such an important climate solution, and what is the data underpinning that conclusion
• Understanding the Permitting Reform Landscape: Build a solid foundation by understanding the permitting players, politics, problems, and how and why CCL is engaging in this challenging landscape.

Once you have a grasp on the foundations and basic concepts behind permitting reform, you can dive deeper with our advanced trainings.

• Transmission Reform: See why transmission reforms are a crucial climate solution, the details of potential transmission permitting reform provisions, and key messages for congressional offices.
• Build Faster: Learn about permitting reforms to build clean energy infrastructure faster, associated tensions and compromises.
• Fair Permitting Certainty: Understand how Congress can ensure certainty in a permitting reform package.
• Community Engagement: Discover how community engagement may be addressed in the permitting reform process.
• Messaging for Impact: Permitting Reform Wrap-Up: This final session brings everything together with a focus on effective communication.

Check out the full Training Hub on CCL Community to see the full list of available trainings, track your progress, and view other helpful permitting-related resources.

View the Training Hub

In other news this week:

• Sen. Luján sends message to NM Youth: For Earth Day this year, New Mexico CCLers partnered with Taos High School to support a youth climate summit. Both New Mexico senators and several area representatives were invited to participate. Sen. Luján took the extra step of recording a video for the participating students, saying, “You represent the future of climate and energy leadership and the work you’re doing right now truly matters and will make a difference.” Thank you Sen. Luján! The full recording of the message is available here.

Take action this week

If you have a little time: RSVP to June’s Monthly Meeting. We’re excited to announce Tyson Bartone-Riggs of the Alliance for Wildfire Resilience as our featured guest speaker for June’s Monthly Meeting. RSVP to join us June 13 at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT for a forestry-focused call. Prior to joining the Alliance for Wildfire Resilience, Tyson worked with the Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission and spent five years with the Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition as Executive Director and Policy Manager. RSVP now and don’t forget to reach out to your local chapter and check if they have plans to tune in as a group!

If you have more time: Plan your next summer social. Relationships are vital to our CCL work — with our lawmakers, of course, but especially with each other. This month, we encourage you to start planning a summer social event. It could be something low-key that you do in June or early July, or something that requires a little more planning that you get on the calendar for August. Whether it’s a brewery hang, a movie screening, a game night, or a picnic in the park, get creative and get together! Don’t forget to snap a selfie of the event and send it to marketing@citizensclimate.org.

Featured sponsor: Climatize

Putting on our annual Summer Conference and Lobby Day is a big lift, and this year, we’re grateful to have Climatize as one of our Champion Sponsors helping make it happen. 

Climatize is a nonpartisan, climate-focused financial portal that enables individuals and entities to directly invest in renewable energy projects, including solar, battery storage, energy efficiency, and electric vehicle charging infrastructure. 

Advancing clean energy policy is one of the key ways we are pursuing our organizational policy commitment to reduce emissions, so we’re proud to have the support of Climatize, who is bolstering clean energy in their own way.

Climatize founders Will Wiseman and Alba Forns trace the origins of the company back to their participation in the Fridays for Future movement in 2019. Seeing over 100,000 people fill the streets with hope, determination, and a shared commitment to a better future convinced them that solving climate change would require everyone, not just policymakers and large institutions. 

Climatize was built on that idea: empowering everyday people to participate directly in building the clean energy future they want to see. 

They wanted to capture that hope and motivation, channeling it into meaningful change. So, Will and Alba launched Climatize in 2023. Later that same year, the pair was recognized in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in the Social Impact category. Climatize has now channeled over $17 million in funding for renewable energy projects.

We’d like to thank Climatize for helping make this year’s conference possible!

Disclosure: Investments through Climatize involve risk, including the possible loss of principal. Returns are not guaranteed. 

Citizens’ Climate does not formally endorse, promote, or market any corporate sponsor’s products, services, or company. All information shared regarding corporate partners is provided solely for acknowledgment and educational purposes.

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