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2025 Policy Roadmap - IN PROGRESS

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We have the power to influence America’s climate policy. Here’s a high-level overview of the policy opportunities CCL sees for the year ahead, based on our chosen policy areas and our Government Affairs team’s insights about the political landscape. Congress could always send us on a detour — but here’s the roadmap for 2025 based on what we know now.
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Behind the wheel

As a grassroots advocacy group with more than 230,000 supporters and 370 chapters, we’re driving climate action in Congress all year long.

2025 is the first year of the 119th Congress. The first year of any Congress is often slower legislatively than the second year — lawmakers and advocates like us are laying a lot of groundwork, building coalitions, and starting to discuss the big ideas that might be possible in this Congress. 

But in this case, we might see Congress hit the ground running since Republicans are now in unified control. Republicans have the majority in both chambers of Congress (the Senate and House) and President Trump returns to the White House for a second term.

With this in mind, we know we will need to spend a significant amount of energy this year defending climate policy progress that we have already made. We also intend to identify and take every possible opportunity to secure more climate wins at the federal level. Buckle up, folks.

Interactive Roadmap 🗺️

In the fast lane

You can think of this year’s activities as fitting into a few major “lanes” on the advocacy highway: climate policy defense, carbon pricing, clean energy, and healthy forests. You’ll find opportunities to take action in all of them during 2025 — it’s going to be a busy year.

CCL staff will give you guidance about when and how to take specific actions, so that all chapters and volunteers are headed in the same direction. You will see that guidance through the monthly Climate Action Program emails, the monthly Action Sheets, and in our monthly meetings. 

Beyond that, you may change lanes according to what’s most exciting to your chapter, relevant to your community, or important to your member of Congress. We’ll see how the road trip goes! (Just, you know, use your blinker.)

Activities along the way

Check out our interactive roadmap to see what activities are planned so far! Click on each road sign or pin drop to see more information. 

Interactive Roadmap 🗺️

Get ready to hit the road

Ensure your chapter has liaisons identified and ready to set lobby meetings this year

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Lobbying Congress, Climate Policy
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