Community Bulletin

Thousands of CCL volunteers will call their members of Congress on June 5 to lay the foundation for our June 11 Lobby Day in D.C. Calling our senators and representatives helps demonstrate constituent concern about climate change and increase congressional offices’ awareness of the Energy Innovation Act. To make calling easy and to automatically ... more

What's a release? Simply put, a release is a package of software updates that are ready to be released. On CCL Community, we'll release updates every other Monday. New features Streamlined field report form. Based on your Community login, fields like email address, chapter, district, and name are now pre-filled and editable. The most recent forum ... more

Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 9, which would "direct the President to develop a plan for the United States to meet its nationally determined contribution under the Paris Agreement, and for other purposes." The vote was 231 to 190. CCL issued this statement of support: "Citizens’ Climate Lobby supports H.R. 9, Climate ... more

Recently, rock climber Alex Honnold, who scaled Yosemite’s El Capitan in the Oscar-winning documentary “Free Solo,” publicly endorsed the Energy Innovation Act. The Outdoor Industry Action Team helped this endorsement come about. Bill Barron, who co-leads the team with Matt Tucker, says, “It is a great story of teamwork!” Here’s Bill's story of ... more

What's a release? Simply put, a release is a package of software updates that are ready to be released. On CCL Community, we'll release updates every other Monday. New features Added Community Bulletins to the users dashboard. Chapter rosters now display the total number of members for easy reference, including supporters who have opted out of email ... more

Citizens’ Climate Radio is a monthly podcast hosted by CCL volunteer Peterson Toscano. Browse all our past episode recaps here , or listen to past episodes here , and check out the latest episode in the post below. Nicole Chatterson at the University of Hawaii and Dominic Scicchitano at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania have spent a lot of time in the ... more

Carlos Curbelo, former U.S. House member (R-FL) Before leaving Congress, Carlos Curbelo did more than any Republican to tone down the divisive rhetoric on climate change and start a movement to turn it into a bipartisan issue. Along with Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL), he led the formation and growth of the Climate Solutions Caucus, which had 45 Republicans ... more

Earth Day marked the release of a new book, Climate Abandoned: We're on the Endangered Species List , which has a chapter devoted to Citizens' Climate Lobby. Written and edited by author and radio host Jill Cody, the book contains chapters contributed by a number of authors on a range of climate change topics -- science, economics, national security, ... more

Congress may be on Easter recess, but that hasn’t stopped the parade of House members who are signing up to cosponsor the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act. Four more have come on board in the last two weeks, bringing the total to 32 representatives. The newest cosponsors (shown at top from left) are Rep. Denny Heck (D-WA), Rep. Katie Porter ... more

CCL's five levers of political will include Chapter Organizing given the importance of organizing new groups around the country to demonstrate local support for the Energy Innovation Act.  One of CCL's newest chapters — CCL Danville —  just launched less than two weeks ago in the heart of rural Kentucky.  Group Development Coach Christine Missik and ... more

By John Sandvig, CCL Washington state co-coordinator On Saturday, April 13, CCL volunteers convened with other climate activists at the South Sound Climate Action Convention in Olympia. This year, CCL leaders in the region determined to hold conferences by states. In the case of Washington, two separate conferences were organized: this weekend’s ... more

What's a release? Simply put, a release is a package of software updates that are ready to be released. On CCL Community, we'll release updates every other Monday. New features • Users are now able to select their time zones on their account settings page . This will come in handy in various places throughout the Community (see next bullet point). • Event ... more