00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:06.000 Welcome welcome to the May's climate lobby. 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:07.000 Call. Let me just say to Alyssa tenant who creates those videos, thank you. Again. 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:14.000 Alyssa was very touched by that welcoming video. 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:22.000 Again mine's mark, Reynolds. I'm a member of the Citizens climate lobby board, and what's going to happen on today's call. I'm hosting today's call just a moment. 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:25.000 I'll be introducing our guest. We're very excited to be here. 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:32.000 I think this is a really important message for for us to understand what actually needs to happen for us to move to electrification. 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:46.000 After that we'll hear some of the things that happen since last month's call, which includes, you know, we had, which I thought was a very ambitious stretch goal of 500 outreach and tabling events, and you did 788 that already is created 2,560 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:53.000 5 new joins. You also generated 13,185 letters, the editor, and began the process of setting the appointments to see every member of the House and set it in June. 00:15:53.000 --> 00:16:00.000 So as we would call that another month of citizens, Climate Lobby. 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:04.000 After we do that we'll hear from our head of government affairs. 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:05.000 Ben Pendgrass, who says, apparently, there's some interesting things happening in Congress other than the debt ceilings. 00:16:05.000 --> 00:16:14.000 So there's really interesting this happening on the climate front. 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:19.000 And I'm excited to have Ben tells about that. Then we'll go over what we're doing, and then we'll hear more from Flannery, Winchester. 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:25.000 Our director communications update of all the amazing events that happen over the month of April. 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:27.000 Our guest this month is Dr. Adam C. Simon. 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:30.000 He's an Arthur Ferner, professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Michigan. 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:48.000 Here, in degrees, in geology, from the University of Maryland and Stony Brook University, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University, whereas where he excuse me, where he investigated the formation of layered mephic intrusions in the dry 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:50.000 valleys of Antarctica. Adam spent his first 7 years as a faculty member at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:59.000 We worked on carlin-type gold deposits before moving to Michigan in 2,012. 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:03.000 He's a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists. 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:14.000 His research program combines field analytical and experimental work to unravel the genesis of mineral systems, including Ioc, Ioa, porphyry and carlin systems. 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:26.000 Alan, co-authored. 2 textbooks, mineral resources, economics and Environment and Earth minerals components of a diverse planet, and is published nearly 50 pages in the field of mineral resources. 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:29.000 Or are we excited to have you here today, Dr. Simon? Welcome! 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:38.000 Thank you very much, very happy to be here, and I will share screen. 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:47.000 And tell me if you don't see what I see, which is, I see a full screen with my slides. 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:48.000 Okay. 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:49.000 I I do see that, and we will monitor the questions in the chat. 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:50.000 So you don't have to keep track of those. 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:55.000 Okay, great. So in the interest of time, I'm gonna go ahead and tell you I have a lot of slides, some of them all just briefly touch on. 00:17:55.000 --> 00:18:03.000 And then you can email me for this slides afterwards. 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:07.000 Or you can email the hosts who have a copy of the entire slide deck. 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:09.000 But I want to start with a schematic here, which is the goal of the Us. 00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:24.000 Inflation, reduction act, and the key thing. I want everyone to see is that as we project out here on the bottom X-axis 2025, 2030, and out into into the 2030 s. 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:37.000 And 24, the general consensus I'm guessing of everybody on this call is that we want to completely eliminate emissions from energy consumption that requires that we electrify everything. 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:51.000 Electric vehicles, electric heat, electric air, conditioning, electric hot water, electric cooking, so everyone would have induction stoves, and we would need a significant amount of battery, storage. 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:57.000 When we project, how we can achieve net neutrality or carbon neutrality. 00:18:57.000 --> 00:19:05.000 We know that by 2050, 90% of all of the energy we consume has to be derived by renewables. 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:15.000 This is in the absence of increased nuclear and increasing hydroelectric, although they certainly have the potential to play a large role in decarbonizing. 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:28.000 But in order to get to 90% renewable energy, the what we need to do also is we need to significantly increase the amount of electricity that makes up the primary energy that we consume. 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:32.000 So there are 2 types of energy, primary and secondary. 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:37.000 Electricity is secondary energy, and this is appl plot of terawatt hours on the y-axis versus time on the X-axis. 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:41.000 And the point I want to make is right here, where I'm circling with my cursor. 00:19:41.000 --> 00:19:53.000 Currently globally, electricity is somewhere between 20 and 25% of all of the energy that we consume. 00:19:53.000 --> 00:20:16.000 And in order to achieve any of the climate, action, scenarios, we need electricity to increase significantly within the United States and globally by a factor of 3 to in the United States, this will take significantly increasing the bill the renewable energy infrastructure by way of wind and solar so this is the 00:20:16.000 --> 00:20:19.000 Graphic, put together by the New York Times a few months ago. 00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:25.000 But what you're looking at is all of the blue dots represent currently operating currently operating wind farms. 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:26.000 All of the orange, which is a bit harder to see, represent solar farms. 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:33.000 This is our current state, and this is where we need to be. 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:36.000 By 2050. So it's just clear by looking at the blue and the orange tear that we need significant growth of wind and solar. 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:47.000 Nationally now as a geologist, when I look at wind turbines, this is what I see. 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:51.000 These are all of the elements that are physically embedded within the wind. 00:20:51.000 --> 00:21:03.000 Turbine, and it's infrastructure to produce electricity and when I look at solar panels, these are all of the elements that are required in order to produce solar panels. 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:10.000 And when I look at battery, electric vehicles, I see more than just lithium ion batteries. 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:27.000 So, in addition to lithium lithium, ion batteries, they contain copper, nickel, manganese, cobalt, and rare earth metals, and in the United States the goal is that by 2,030 50% of all vehicle sales will be battery 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:39.000 electric. That means 8 million battery electric vehicles will be sold in 2030, in the year 2,022 there were about 750,000 battery electric vehicles sold in the United States. 00:21:39.000 --> 00:22:01.000 So that represents a needed tenfold increase in about 7 years, and considering that we have 16 million vehicles sold every year in the United States, that requires a nearly twenty-fold increase over the next couple of decades and globally, we sell 80 million like we sell 80 million combustion engine vehicles, a year, so 00:22:01.000 --> 00:22:21.000 those would need to be replaced with batteries. Now there's a lot of news in the paper all the time about the Department of Energy's program to help finance battery startups, and I'm totally on board with this the headline the department of Energy's program to help Finance battery startups and I'm totally on board with this the 00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:26.000 headline on the right is from an article just a couple of days ago in the New York Times, about how much money Jiggershaw has today. 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:43.000 What the point I want to make today is that when we look at all of these battery manufacturing facilities, they need all of these metals in order to manufacture all of those batteries, so this is a different way of looking at the periodic table where in the top center here 00:22:43.000 --> 00:22:51.000 is the color codes for the elements required to build solar, photovoltaic, electric vhicles and wind power. 00:22:51.000 --> 00:23:06.000 And all I want to highlight here is that when we look in particular at these transition, role metals in the center, we look at these rare earths on the bottom which we need to make the the permanent magnets in the motors for battery electric vehicles and for wind turbines and the motors for battery electric vehicles and for wind 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:12.000 turbines, one we look at lithium and carbon graphite is commonly the anode in battery, electric vehicles. 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:18.000 We need to significantly increase the amount of these metals that are available to build the renewable energy infrastructure that all of us want. 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:41.000 And if we look at projections here, where bottom left was the total amount of each of these metals summed for all solar, photovoltaic wind, other low carbon power generation Evs and battery storage electric electricity networks and hydrogen what we can see is that over 00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:52.000 the next couple of decades, the supply of all of these medals needs to increase by somewhere between 4 and 6 times. 00:23:52.000 --> 00:24:07.000 We know that recycling will get better, but I just want to highlight here that, at least for the next several decades, we will not be able to recycle our way to building out the renewable energy, infrastructure needed to achieve carbon neutrality and we see this for all 00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:27.000 metals that are necessary for renewable energy so I'm going to highlight one which is copper, and I'm going to walk through this data plot where the Y-axis is millions of tons, and the X-axis is time and for the years 2017 2018 1920 00:24:27.000 --> 00:24:36.000 21 and 22. The white line here is the total global demand for copper. 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:56.000 In each of those years, and if we calculate how much copper we need globally in order to build out wind, energy, and battery, electric vehicle and battery storage, infrastructure, then we can project out to 2035 what the total demand for copper will be every single 00:24:56.000 --> 00:25:12.000 year, and what's shown on this plot is that over the next decade we will have a growing supply gap for copper, and it's true for all of the metals that are required to build out renewable energy infrastructure. 00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:18.000 This was highlighted in an article late last month in the Wall Street Journal, and I, highlighted in yellow. 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:32.000 Here on the right hand side, that for copper alone we'll have a supply shortage of at least 6.5 million tons every single year. 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:50.000 And when we look at all of the medals that we need for renewable energy, infrastructure, so on the bottom of this state applot, here we have all of the medals that are required to build various parts of renewable energy infrastructure and the y-axis is global supply for mining 00:25:50.000 --> 00:26:14.000 companies divided by global demand and a ratio. Less than one means that demand exceeds supply, and what we can see is that for every single medal, except for lead supply over demand is less than one which means the metals that we need to build wind and solar and batteries will not be available there's a lot 00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:18.000 of concern about the fact that the majority of the medals that we need to build renewable energy are not produced in the United States. 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:39.000 So these periodic tables by country give you a sense of which countries are the primary producers of a given metal, and one of the countries that has become significantly of concern over the last decade is China. 00:26:39.000 --> 00:27:02.000 And if we look at China, these are histograms inside each of the cells on the periodic table, where, in a given cell, for example, for vanadium, the the leftmost part of the blue histogram is the year 1990, and the right part is 2,018 and what you can see by scanning. 00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:05.000 over the periodic table is that over the last 30 years China has become the dominant producer. 00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:19.000 Either mining the medals that we need for renewable energy, infrastructure, or processing the or and the final components for renewable energy, infrastructure. 00:27:19.000 --> 00:27:24.000 China has invested in mining around the world. They've invested in the Us. 00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:25.000 But we're highlighting here. Their major investments around the world, and each of the colors. 00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:37.000 Here you can see the legend in the bottom center, copper, gold, iron, lead, zinc, lithium, nickel, china. 00:27:37.000 --> 00:27:56.000 Over the last 30 years has done a really good job investing in mines on 6 continents, and that allows them now to effectively have a monopoly on the global production of all of the medals needed for renewable energy. 00:27:56.000 --> 00:28:13.000 There's a lot in the news about French sharing or ally shoring, meaning that if we don't have the medals within the United States we can simply look at countries where we have free trade agreements, and we'll be able to source those medals that is false. 00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:31.000 The only way that the climate goals of the Inflation Reduction act can be accomplished is by significantly increasing the amount of domestic mining within the United States without sacrificing safety. 00:28:31.000 --> 00:28:54.000 These are data for the years 2011, through 2022, and what you're looking at here the Y-axis are the number of new applications submitted by mining companies to the Federal government, and in green are the number of mine plans approved by the Federal government and the negative trend should 00:28:54.000 --> 00:29:13.000 be alarming to everyone. What we see in the United States our mining companies are increasingly not interested in investing in significant upfront capital to explore, for, get permitted, develop operate, and produce metals. 00:29:13.000 --> 00:29:14.000 This is not because we don't have the medals. 00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:22.000 So this is a map that is a compilation of data from the Us. 00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:42.000 Geological Survey. And I just wanna highlight that if we look across the United States, we have all of the resources necessary to build renewable energy infrastructure. But we're currently not mining them at anywhere near the rate we need to. 00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:57.000 If we look at how long it takes on average for a mining company to get a permit to begin communication of a mine, it's at least 7 to 10 years, and this is after the mine permit has been submitted. 00:29:57.000 --> 00:30:04.000 So mining companies are capital intensive. They require significant upfront investment. 00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:13.000 It typically takes years to decades of work. To get to the point where they have a physical mind constructed and producing metals. 00:30:13.000 --> 00:30:22.000 And so in the United States this long time that it takes them to get permitted is is a disincentive. 00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:39.000 We need to change the mindset of mining when we look at photographs such as this one from a hundred years ago, the Breaker boys, where in the United States it was relatively common for boys at the age of 4, 6, 8, 10 they would work in coal mines. 00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:45.000 They would work in metal mines in Coal mines they would be used to break apart big pieces of coal. 00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:52.000 We know that we have a lot of legacy, environmental pollution from historic mining. 00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:58.000 And we see this when we look at acid mine drainage around the country. 00:30:58.000 --> 00:31:08.000 But over the last 100 years regulations have led to mining operations, becoming much safer than they historically were. 00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:17.000 We know longer. Have boys working in those mines. We no longer have operating minds producing acid mind drainage. 00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:30.000 These are data on the Y-axis for the number of fatalities for each of the five-year periods of time here shown on the X-axis on the bottom, and what we can see here is the direct result. 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:38.000 Of regulations. When we implemented regulations and impose them on the mining industry, the mining industry and their scientists and engineers created safer working environments. 00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:53.000 And we see that the creation at the national level of the Environmental Protection Agency is the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Surface Reclamation Act. 00:31:53.000 --> 00:32:01.000 All of these pieces of legislation passed in States and at the Federal level have had a positive improvement. 00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:02.000 One of the concerns that's in the news frequently is about tailings. 00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:05.000 Dams, and so this is a photograph where the body of water that you're looking at. 00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:22.000 This is a tailings pond, and that Tailings Pond is a mixture of water, and all of the waste rock generated during mining operations. 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:34.000 So think here about mining a granite countertop and we're only pulling out copper and all of the rest of the material in that granite countertop is Pulverized and stored in a tail, and we know that tailings dams fail so this is the tailings. 00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:47.000 Dam, in Brazil only a few years ago that failed, and tragically killed more than 100 people. 00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:57.000 We know now why this tailings dam failed. We know that we have the ability. 00:32:57.000 --> 00:33:07.000 To construct, tailings, dams that do not fail, or have as close to 0 as possible a failure risk one of the things that's important to think about here is scale. 00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:19.000 So if we look at the right side of this slide, we have the cumulative human loss of life from all tailings, dams, failures. 00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:21.000 Going back to 1910. Since 1910, about 2,700 people globally have done. 00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:37.000 As a result of Failing's dam failures. If you put that in context with anything else that you want bicycle accidents, plane crashes. 00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:55.000 Yes, these are truly horrific disasters, but we have to legislate and require mining companies to construct tailings, dams using architecture that is less prone to failure. 00:33:55.000 --> 00:34:08.000 There are several types of ways that mining companies can build tailings, dams showing 2 of the most common here upstream is on top downstream is on bottom, and all I want you to see is that the main difference between these is that in upstream dams. 00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:24.000 They are less expensive. They're cheaper to build. They're also more susceptible. They're cheaper to build. They're also more susceptible to what we call liqufaction, which is failure downstream dams are more expensive. 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:26.000 They're far better in terms of preventing failures. 00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:41.000 And because they cost more money. Historically, they were only required in areas that were prone to earthquakes. 00:34:41.000 --> 00:34:51.000 So, for example, in Chile, upstream dams are illegal, and all mining companies have been required to only build downstream dams for the last several decades. 00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:56.000 Brazil. After that, failings damn collapse in 2,019. 00:34:56.000 --> 00:35:16.000 They also now have made illegal all upstream dams so one of the things that we need legislators to do is to impose through legislation on mining companies one that they can only construct tailings dams that have downstream architectures so how do we 00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:21.000 actually produce all the metals we need for renewable energy, infrastructure. 00:35:21.000 --> 00:35:30.000 And what what else do we need to change about the mindset with respect to mining, so this is the Resolution copper project in Arizona Bottom Center. 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:37.000 Here is a map of Arizona, and Resolution is about 80 miles from Phoenix. 00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:49.000 And this is a mine that would be entirely underground. So more than a mile underground, and it would produce about 4 billion pounds of coer over 40 years. 00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:56.000 So about 1 billion pounds of copper which is 450 billion pounds of copper, which is 450,000 tons of copper per year. 00:35:56.000 --> 00:36:02.000 This project has not received final permitting, at least that I'm aware of. 00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:11.000 And so this project is currently at a stage somewhere between permitting and engineering and construction. 00:36:11.000 --> 00:36:12.000 And in order to produce the amount of copper we need to build out wind solar, and battery. 00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:30.000 Infrastructure, we not only need this mind to become operational, but we need 15 minds of this size to be operational within the next decade. 00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:33.000 There's a lot of costversy about the Resolution project. 00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:51.000 This is an article from the New York Times a couple of years ago, there are indigenous peoples who are concerned about this project, because during the second Obama Era Administration there was a land swap between the Federal Government and the 2 private mining companies that have a joint interest in developing 00:36:51.000 --> 00:36:54.000 the project. 00:36:54.000 --> 00:37:00.000 When we look at lithium, these are the 2 minds that are in the news most frequently fac or pass in northern Nevada and Russia. 00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:18.000 Like Ridge in Central Western Nevada. Each of these mines is expected to become operational, and produce lithium within the next 5 years together they'll produce enough lithium for 2 million battery electric vehicles. 00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:36.000 So, in order to domestically produce the lithium, to produce and sell 8 million battery, electric vehicles by 2030, we need 4 more of each of these mines to come online within the next 7 years, and in order to achieve 16 million battery electric vehicles which would replace 00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:37.000 all of the combustion engine vehicles. We currently drive. 00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:46.000 We need at least 8 more lithium mines of this size to come online within the next couple of decades. 00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:52.000 Now we have an abundance of lithium in other types of mines in the United States. 00:37:52.000 --> 00:38:06.000 So if we look at the map on the left hand side, you can see the colors here indicate different types of lithium deposits and the one that I'm highlighting in the photograph on the right, with the gentleman for scale this is a lithium deposit at 00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:11.000 Plumbago Mountain, in Maine. It's a hard rock deposit. 00:38:11.000 --> 00:38:19.000 It is the same type of deposit that is mined in Australia with almost 0 negative environmental impact. 00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:23.000 It's effectively the same type of mining as we use for gravel and aggregate for concrete. 00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:31.000 This deposit alone has enough lithium for 58 million battery electric vehicles. 00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:51.000 The State of Maine wants to become carbon neutral, so if you follow the news about the state of the main in the last decade, this is a headline from 2019, where the sitting governor at the time called on the world leaders to do their part main won't wait will you maine has 00:38:51.000 --> 00:39:10.000 a phenomenal lithium resource, but simultaneously, in 2017, Maine has made mining illegal, so all of this lithium enough to build all of the battery, like vehicles that we need in the United States cannot be mined even though the State of maine wants to become 00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:13.000 carbon, neutral. 00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:17.000 When we look at other areas in the United States, many of you are probably familiar with the boundary waters in Northern Minnesota. 00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:37.000 This was proposed to become an underground mine, and it would produce about a hundred 1 million pounds of copper a year, 31 million pounds of nickel, and about 1.5 million pounds of cobalt, all of which we need for battery electric vehicles and 00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:41.000 now mining is effectively banned for at least 20 years. 00:39:41.000 --> 00:39:51.000 We see similar headlines in Alaska, where, if we look at the pebble project, this is a deposit that would be the world's leading producer of copper and gold and silver and molybdenum. 00:39:51.000 --> 00:40:01.000 It would produce 320 million pounds of copper per year. 00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:06.000 That's enough to satisfy the total demand for wind and solar and battery. 00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:13.000 Electric vehicles in the United States and the Biden Administration did not permit this mine. 00:40:13.000 --> 00:40:20.000 So what do we need? We urgently need legislative action to hasten, permitting new minds? 00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:25.000 And right now in the House of Representatives there is a Bill, Hr. 00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:31.000 204, accessing America's critical Minerals act of 2021. 00:40:31.000 --> 00:40:54.000 And what it calls for is that when a mining company submits a mine plan on Federal land, it has to be reviewed and considered for a permit within 18 to 24 months, not 7 years, or 10 years, or 15 years, or 20 years, within one to 2 years, and if you do a quick scan of the 00:40:54.000 --> 00:41:04.000 25 co-sponsors, you'll see that almost all of them, I think, except for one representative, Blake Moore, here of Utah. 00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:08.000 All of these co-sponsors are republican, and there's a bill in the Senate. 00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:25.000 S. Dot 1352, which effectively says or calls upon the Federal Government to do the same thing, to complete the Federal permitting and review process with respect to critical mineral production on Federal lands. 00:41:25.000 --> 00:41:31.000 In a more timely fashion, and if you look at the co-sponsors, this is Lisa Murkowski. 00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:35.000 If you look at the co-sponsors on the right, they're all Republican except for Joe Manchin, who at least on paper, is a Democrat. 00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:53.000 Here on the bottom, now, what I'm not saying is that we mine with respect for indigenous communities, and without considering environmental implications. 00:41:53.000 --> 00:41:55.000 So one of the biggest implications for increasing the domestic supply of energy. 00:41:55.000 --> 00:42:13.000 Critical resources is that if we look at a map here and we look at all of the red dots, and we look at all of the green dots, all of the green areas are native American reservations. 00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:33.000 And what we now know is that a majority of the energy curve resources that we need in the United States are located either within native American reservations or within a buffer that is, on the order of 35 miles around reservations or within a buffer that is on the order of 35 miles around 00:42:33.000 --> 00:42:43.000 reservations. And so I'm not proposing that the Federal Government work with mining companies using eminent domain in order to produce the resources that we need. 00:42:43.000 --> 00:43:06.000 But we know where the resources are. We know the quantity of resources that we need, and we need to sit at the table, and we need to figure out how we can extract these resources and have positive impacts both for the climate and the people who live proximal to these resources so I come back to this slide at the very 00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:20.000 end. If everybody on this call agrees that we want to achieve carbon neutrality within the next few decades in order to keep global temperatures from going over the cliff, as we're told. 00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:38.000 That requires significantly increasing the amount of renewable energy, infrastructure, wind, turbines, solar panels battery, electric vehicles, charging infrastructure, significant upgrades and expansion of the electrical grid in order to carry all of those electrons from wind and solar to 00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:48.000 where we use them, and this requires significantly increasing the mining of these resources within our domestic borders. Thank you. 00:43:48.000 --> 00:43:54.000 Yeah, thank you so much, boy. I wouldn't have. I wouldn't have had you leave a single slide out. 00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:58.000 Unfortunately, it's left us out of time for questions, but hopefully we can get you back for another time for questions. 00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:04.000 As I said at the start of this call, I think that this is a communication that's so important for this organization. 00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:05.000 We had been focused for 14 years before in carbon pricing. 00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:18.000 But we've added permitting reform for this being one of the main reasons is we simply need to help the things that need to happen in order to get there. 00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:23.000 You can't just get there by goals alone, and so thank you so much. 00:44:23.000 --> 00:44:26.000 This is so important for us, and so helpful. And you're certainly welcome to stay on the next 10 min. 00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:31.000 The call. We do a quick legislative update and talk about what we're doing this month. 00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:37.000 But that was fantastic, and it will get probably 10 times the viewage of today with our membership. 00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:40.000 And again we would love to have you back for a if we could, at some point. 00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:41.000 Sure. Great! Thank you, Mark. 00:44:41.000 --> 00:44:47.000 Yeah, thank you so much. Alright. We've also got Ben Pendgrass from our Government Affairs department here. 00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:53.000 According to Ben, there the debt ceiling is not the only thing being discussed in DC. 00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:58.000 There's some other interesting things happening on the climate front so Ben, what can you tell us in the conferencences coming up soon? 00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:02.000 So you've got a lot on your play for what you're going to be telling us. 00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:03.000 Absolutely. I'm really pumped to to come right after Dr. 00:45:03.000 --> 00:45:09.000 Simon, because obviously he shared a lot of information about one. 00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:14.000 You know, we need to be looking at permanent reform as one of our new primary policy. 00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:18.000 Areas. So that's great and goes right into what I'm on and talk about a little bit right now. 00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:29.000 Well, Mark, you are kind of right. There are some other things going on besides that selling, but the primary thing the Congress is concerned about is the dead selling. 00:45:29.000 --> 00:45:41.000 We've got a couple of weeks to address it. There is a lot of uncertainty about the exact timing a lot of you have probably seen the news the June first deadline if somebody is floating around. 00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:50.000 But that's not an absolute certainty yet, and one of the things that's really interesting as part of the debt slating debate for client is permanent. 00:45:50.000 --> 00:46:04.000 Reform might get to be part of this in some ways I view it is unlikely, especially if we have a very short timeline, because in some ways there's a lot of ideas around permanent reform. 00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:11.000 But there's not much time to really work out a deal, and so, and 70, we're certainly keeping an eye on. 00:46:11.000 --> 00:46:16.000 And besides that, so in primary form, really has been the other focus of Washington, you might have noticed just a flurry of bills being introduced. 00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:29.000 Sarah Manchin reintroduced his proposal from last year Senator Capito released her bill Sarah also introduced a bill. 00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:36.000 The house did Hr. One on permanent review rubber's cast and 11 introduced a primary formula over in the House chairman of the Epaw Committee. 00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:42.000 Carver has said, he's going to introduce a Primary Reform Bill and the White House. 00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:44.000 Even in released, their framework on primary reform. Last week. 00:46:44.000 --> 00:46:50.000 So I mean, there's been a lot going on, you know. 00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:56.000 None of these are exactly the bipars and Compromise Bill that we will likely see. 00:46:56.000 --> 00:47:07.000 Move ahead. But components from all these bills could make it into a package, you know, and there's also been a lot of hearings around permanent reform couple of weeks ago. 00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:11.000 The Epw committee in the Senate held their first State on primary form, that I thought was really good bipartisan protective conversation. 00:47:11.000 --> 00:47:22.000 The Senate. Energy and natural resources. They had a hearing on Premier reform this week, and so a lot of this is going on. 00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:23.000 So it's perfect for us to kind of segway into. 00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:29.000 What are we gonna be talking about in June? Well, we're gonna be talking about? 00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:47.000 Permit, reform. It's really important. As this topic, as Doctor Sean talked about is so important. And even though we're not directly getting into some of the the conversations about critical methods at this point, we know Congress has to address permanent, reform, and they need to hear from us 00:47:47.000 --> 00:47:52.000 every Senate and House offices needs to hear the. This is something that needs to be addressed. 00:47:52.000 --> 00:48:08.000 We've got to find a way to build transmission lines faster and get them permanent we've got to reduce the amount of time that takes to complete environmental reviews while preserving strong environmental standards in this is no way a rubber stamp for projects we've got 00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:13.000 to get yes, to good projects faster, and we've got to get to know faster on bad projects. 00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:17.000 We gotta make federal agencies more efficient when they're connecting these reviews. 00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:34.000 And most importantly, we've got to ensure robust and early community engagement to make sure that communities most impacted by these really have their voices heard when these are coming up to be permitted and built, you know, and we're not really standing on the sidelines on policy specifics. 00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:47.000 But at this moment, in time the message Congress really needs to hear is not exactly how you do it, but that it needs to get done, and it needs to be within these parameters next thing we're going to be lobby on is the energy innovation act. 00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:52.000 We expect the Innovation Act to be reintroduced in the House in the coming weeks. 00:48:52.000 --> 00:49:08.000 There's some question on timing, so you'll have to bear with us, as we see when exactly gets introduced, and while they're really exciting things that happen this week, the Senate Budget Committee held a hearing on climate and former Republican Leader Bill Frist indoors to 00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:17.000 carbon price this week as well, so that was great to hear from a former Republican majority leader in the Senate that he thinks there should be a carbon price highlight of my week. 00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:33.000 So this is really when you guys are hearing this is, gonna be a great time to introduce the bill to new offices, to never heard about current pricing before the freshmen tell our old friends it's back, and they should be co-sponsors and really continue our education around the 00:49:33.000 --> 00:49:38.000 carbon price and remind Congress that it's still a strong and popular tool. 00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:42.000 I think these are all reasons why you guys should join us in June. 00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:48.000 If you can, because one of the things we know is showing up Congress in person is impassive. 00:49:48.000 --> 00:49:57.000 They notice it. And besides these primary ass I talked about we'll also have 5 supporting asked for you to choose from, that when both best suits your district. 00:49:57.000 --> 00:50:04.000 Well, next week Jen and I will get into this in a little bit more depth. 00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:11.000 On the May eighteenth lobby. Education. And so if you wanna like, dive a little bit deeper, please join us and I'll look forward to seeing you. 00:50:11.000 --> 00:50:15.000 Then I will in my 5 min, Mark. I think I'm right on time. 00:50:15.000 --> 00:50:18.000 Great. Ben. Yeah, thank you so much. And we're really looking forward to Thursday. 00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:24.000 And we're looking forward to June, and thanks for all the work you and Jen are doing to get us ready for that. 00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:25.000 Thanks, everybody. 00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:27.000 I appreciate it. Yup. Okay, so what are we doing this month? 00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:33.000 First of all, you just heard Ben say, the energy, innovation, and carbon dividend act is going to be reintroduced. 00:50:33.000 --> 00:50:36.000 So we'll be asking you to reach out to your members of Congress about that. 00:50:36.000 --> 00:50:41.000 We have a more interesting, complicated, lobby us this year. 00:50:41.000 --> 00:50:42.000 So we're gonna ask you also to plan with your liaison for the June lobby meeting. 00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:57.000 And please make sure as much as your membership makes Thursday session, so that you hear Jen and Ben go over the what the ass are social media Buonus action is to help fellow Ccll volunteers post on social media and then regarding chapter development. 00:50:57.000 --> 00:51:06.000 So, you know, we had 788 of that we saw thousands of people. 00:51:06.000 --> 00:51:11.000 Please get as many of those people to come to the Wednesday intro sessions. 00:51:11.000 --> 00:51:12.000 Those things work. They give people just enough of a dose of Ccl. 00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:13.000 Quickly, to convert them, to being regular members of the organization. 00:51:13.000 --> 00:51:28.000 Hopefully, even some of those brand new people can make it to the June Conference okay, so we have a huge effort of outreach in April. 00:51:28.000 --> 00:51:30.000 And I asked Flannery, Winchester, our Director of Communications, our senior Director Communications. 00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:40.000 If you could just share a little bit about that on the call right now. 00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:41.000 Yes, happy to mark. So let me share my screen here for a second. 00:51:41.000 --> 00:51:49.000 Actually let me get out of the queue and a lot of good questions this. 00:51:49.000 --> 00:52:09.000 So we, as you said, we had hundreds of outreach events in April, and I wanna thank everybody for sharing their fantastic photos from those appreach events so we now have pictures from, I believe, 66 of our chapters and more are coming in all the time. 00:52:09.000 --> 00:52:12.000 So, if you were here a few minutes before the start of the call, you saw that we are now featuring chapter photos in that precall video. 00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:20.000 And hopefully, that gives you a sense of the incredible energy and activity out there. 00:52:20.000 --> 00:52:32.000 All across the country from chapters like yours, and in case you weren't here before the start of the call, I'll share my screen, and I'll show you 1 one way that we are using those photos. 00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:38.000 So here's what we've got. You can see. 00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:49.000 See that slide. Okay? So there's lots of wonderful tabling materials that we see out there in action. 00:52:49.000 --> 00:52:55.000 Folks made really great use of the climate, anxiety, counseling Booth from our marketing team. 00:52:55.000 --> 00:53:03.000 That was really fun to see. And we're also starting to see folks out there organizing tree plantings and sending in photos of that, bringing our healthy forests policy area to life. 00:53:03.000 --> 00:53:08.000 So just lots of wonderful images from all around the country and that's just a just a little taste of what we're putting together here. 00:53:08.000 --> 00:53:30.000 And so so please continue to send in your photos if you haven't yet shared pictures of your chapter, you can email them to marketing at citizens climate org, and we will be able to use them in materials like these and others and so that we can celebrate all your wonderful outreach so 00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:31.000 thanks. Everyone. 00:53:31.000 --> 00:53:42.000 And if I could just add Flannery happy first mother's day, and if I could extend that to the rest of the organization, happy mothers to everybody tomorrow, and so happy for you, and and know. 00:53:42.000 --> 00:53:43.000 Thank you so much. Mark. 00:53:43.000 --> 00:53:52.000 Okay. Great last thing. So if you saw the pre-conference video, there was talk about the conference that we had in Texas Susan Adams heads up our third coast conference. 00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:56.000 That was our first time seeing the Texas Legislature. 00:53:56.000 --> 00:54:05.000 Susan said that she and the team had a lot of anxiety about visiting the Texas Legislature wasn't like all the years they were working up meeting with Congress in DC. 00:54:05.000 --> 00:54:11.000 So she said, could you record a message to our group about optimism? 00:54:11.000 --> 00:54:12.000 And I'm like sure. And she said, Can you do it in like a minute? 00:54:12.000 --> 00:54:20.000 So we'll finish the call if I I wanna share you. 00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:28.000 The message that we sent to the Austin. All the people are at the Austin Regional Conference in like a minute about optimism. 00:54:28.000 --> 00:54:34.000 5 years ago, Leslie Baty, who was a volunteer then, and as our head of marketing now distinguished our values. 00:54:34.000 --> 00:54:42.000 Those values are focus optimism, diversity relationships, integrity being nonpartisan and personal power. 00:54:42.000 --> 00:54:56.000 Leslie said. At the time I just wrote down what I heard Leslie Beatty is one of the smartest and most humble people I have ever met, and so she would, of course, say I just wrote down whatever heard the rest of us have heard all that stuff and didn't write anything as elegant as the 00:54:56.000 --> 00:54:57.000 way she articulated, that, you know values are still consistent, but they need to be updated. 00:54:57.000 --> 00:55:10.000 Occasionally, because times change, we change. And so she updated the optimism value recently, and it now reads a part of it in the face of challenges. 00:55:10.000 --> 00:55:27.000 We choose optimism. Recommend that you choose optimism, some people say, but I don't fill optimistic. 00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:32.000 We know it's good for the climate movement I'm pretty sure it's all so good for you. So choose optimism. 00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:40.000 Choose it. Today. 00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:42.000 Alright! Thanks, everybody! We'll see you next month. Bill Mckibben will be our guest, and we'll we'll see. 00:55:42.000 --> 00:55:46.000 Then we're happy to have our old friend back, and Dr. Simon. 00:55:46.000 --> 00:56:00.000 Thank you so much that was so fantastic. Thanks, everybody.