Pete Maysmith
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President
@lcv.org
, organizer, climate fighter.
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Pete Maysmith
LCV â League of Conservation Voters đ
8 days ago
"Itâs not enough just to wave placards and say, 'Climate change!' The point is to take actual action. To do your bit." Jane Goodall was an environmental hero who dedicated her life to protecting animals and their habitats and who understood the threat of climate change more than anyone.
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Jane Goodall, famed primatologist and conservationist, dies at 91
Jane Goodall, the most prolific primatologist of a generation, has died. She was 91 years old.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/jane-goodall-famed-primatologist-anthropologist-conservationist-dead-91/story?id=109868347
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Trump and the Republicans have shut down the government because they want to continue raising costs for everything.
8 days ago
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We seem to mostly scream and shout at each other about disagreements. Here's an exception - pretty much everyone wants dangerous chemicals out of our food. Now we just need Congressional Republicans to pay attention.
https://bit.ly/46sdA80
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Congress tries to shut down action on dangerous PFAS in fertilizer 'in the dark of night'
Earlier this month, we reported about a potential health risk being spread on American farms and invading our food and milk supply. Fertilizer made from human w
https://bit.ly/46sdA80
10 days ago
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Shared this on LinkedIn the other day, but think with a shutdown looming and horrible news, itâs good to share here too. Hereâs whatâs keeping me hopeful about the coming months
https://bit.ly/42cERZq
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Hope is what fuels us as people
I spent most of last week at an LCV all staff retreat, and early one morning before we began, I walked out on a little pier just before sunrise. One of the organizers on our team (a fellow early bird)...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pete-maysmith-50ab903_i-spent-most-of-last-week-at-an-lcv-all-staff-activity-7374106153133449216-rOX9/
11 days ago
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Threatening peopleâs healthcare and livelihoods to please your mega-donors isnât leadership.
12 days ago
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Happy Public Lands Day from past me celebrating the designation of Camp Hale as a national monument. Looking forward to the day we can celebrate like this again.
13 days ago
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CON JOB ALERT! Trump's "energy dominance" is ALL HAT and NO CATTLE. STRONG piece from
@sammyroth.bsky.social
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14 days ago
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These were projects that dealt with sewage leaks and flooding and lowered cancer rates. They are not partisan projects; no one wants sewage in their homes. Stop this nonsense - donât do things that hurt people.
https://wapo.st/4gt1yhV
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Black communities, shaken by Trump cuts, feel âleft behind againâ
The Trump administration has canceled nearly two dozen projects, according to a Post analysis, undermining efforts on pollution, sewage leaks and flooding.
https://wapo.st/4gt1yhV
21 days ago
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How âbout we focus on the real problem: Trump banning clean energy and insisting on expensive, dirty energy - instead of victim blaming us for running the AC in the summer.
23 days ago
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Donât know about you but Iâd really like to know whatâs being pumped into the air I breathe.
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Trump admin wonât make polluters report how much theyâve polluted | CNN
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin framed the new steps as a move to end burdensome regulations. Climate advocates blasted it as a way to give polluters a free pass.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/12/climate/epa-polluters-reporting-trump
27 days ago
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I do this work because I want a country and a world that is safe for everyone. That includes those whose views I vehemently disagree with. Violence does not have a place in our world.
29 days ago
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The cost of canceling offshore wind projects is more than just lost jobs and wasted work â itâs higher rates for everyone paying bills:
https://bit.ly/4mW4XrK
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3.5 GW of offshore wind in New England could offset natural gas price spikes: report
Offshore wind in the region could have offset the surge in natural gas prices last winter and saved ratepayers $400 million, according to a report from Daymark Energy Advisors.
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/offshore-wind-new-england-natural-gas-prices-trump/758899/
about 1 month ago
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Dissent is patriotic.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/08/29/epa-dissent-letter-employees-fired/
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Trump officials fire EPA employees for signing dissent letter
The move to terminate the staffers marks an escalation in the Trump administrationâs effort to clamp down on dissent within the federal bureaucracy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/08/29/epa-dissent-letter-employees-fired/
about 1 month ago
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We always say that elections have consequences, but itâs also the case that bad votes in Congress have consequences:
https://politi.co/4lTarCp
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In windy Iowa, a GOP lawmaker faces a reckoning over Trumpâs clean energy war
Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks held her seat by a razor-thin margin in 2024, but could see her support erode because of her vote to end incentives for renewable energy.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/01/trumps-anti-renewable-energy-spree-threatens-a-vulnerable-republican-in-wind-rich-iowa-00530060
about 1 month ago
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Wildland firefighters are the best among us. Terrorizing them makes us all less safe, not more.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/federal-agents-arrest-firefighters-working-on-wa-wildfire/
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Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire
Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/federal-agents-arrest-firefighters-working-on-wa-wildfire/
about 1 month ago
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Pete Maysmith
Rep. Mike Levin
about 1 month ago
Killing clean energy projects means killing jobs and raising bills. 64,000 jobs already lost or at risk. 400,000 more on the line. The future is clean energyâand thatâs where we must invest.
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20 years ago today I'd just moved into a new house with my two young kids. I remember watching coverage of Katrina, wondering if we had space to take in a displaced family, wondering what I could do to prevent it happening again.
about 1 month ago
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This is the kind of specific, life-impacting legislation that shouldnât be partisan â everyone wants good weather reporting.
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E&E News: Democrats line up behind bill to protect NOAA offices
The legislation would halt the termination of leases or ceasing of construction.
https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2025/07/22/democrats-line-up-behind-bill-to-protect-noaa-offices-00465966
about 1 month ago
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When you CUT OFF WIND AND SOLAR (which MANY smart people say are the CHEAPEST, CLEANEST and MOST BEAUTIFUL energy sources) prices WILL GO UP. The ones raising energy prices are TRUMP, and the OIL and GAS COMPANIES who gave him $1BILLION.
about 2 months ago
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Here's a potential perfect storm risk: uncertain increasing electric from data centers + Trump admin banning clean energy = higher prices and dirtier air for rate payers. We need our legislators to invest in scalable, affordable clean energy solutions before it's too late.
@coloradosun.com
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Xcel says it needs to spend $22 billion to keep up with potential demand from Colorado data centers by 2040
Figuring out how much demand there will be in the next 15 years is tricky. Overbuilding could leave customers on the hook, experts say.
https://coloradosun.com/2025/08/18/colorado-xcel-data-center-demand-spending/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslocal_denver&stream=top
about 2 months ago
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This president taking control of a local police force is an abuse of power and textbook authoritarianism, full stop. DC crime is at a 30 year low. Statehood now is the answer.
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Live Updates: Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capitalâs Police
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/11/us/trump-news
about 2 months ago
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Good to see this from
@aflcio.org
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2 months ago
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In the west, we value our public lands as our birthright. In Wyoming, in Colorado, in Montana, in Idaho and nationwide thousands of people are turning out to say âyou will not sell off our public lands!â
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Trump administration weighs new coal sales from public lands in Montana and Wyoming
Federal officials are considering reopening vast areas of public lands in Wyoming and Montana to new coal sales.
https://apnews.com/article/coal-public-lands-trump-montana-wyoming-74a2c1bbca1445a86c22d3f90b3f68be
3 months ago
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Executive orders like this one (once again, released in the middle of the night) are how the Trump regime is going to implement the horrors of their Rate Hike. Deliberately opaque language canât disguise that this order aims to ban clean energy, and that it will raise energy prices.
3 months ago
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In an era of ever-expanding climate disasters, itâs more important than ever that we properly fund and staff warning systems at every level.
www.cnn.com/2025/07/07/u...
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Local officials facing questions over lack of preparations in the years and hours before deadly Texas floods | CNN
As Central Texas reels from flash floods that killed over 100 people this weekend, questions are sharpening about whether officials could have done more to avert the tragedy â both in the decades lead...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/07/us/texas-floods-warning-system-invs
3 months ago
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Every increasingly expensive monthly utility bill should come with a stamp: "This Rate Hike brought to you by Republicans in Congress."
3 months ago
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Even Foxâs polling showed the Republican rate hike 21 points underwater â nobody wanted this and itâs our job for the next two years to make sure everyone knows exactly whoâs delivered this cost-raising, job-killing, air-and-water-polluting mess to us.
www.foxnews.com/politics/ame...
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Americans weigh in on Trump's 'big, beautiful bill': polls
The "big, beautiful bill" is viewed unfavorably by most Americans, who say it is likely to hurt their families, according to the latest Fox News Poll.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/americans-weigh-big-beautiful-bill-polls
3 months ago
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The fight doesnât end with this bill â in fact itâs only beginning. We got within one vote of stopping it and thatâs a testament to massive organizing against a horrible bill across the political spectrum. Now the fight begins to stop it in the states.
3 months ago
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Pete Maysmith
U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor
3 months ago
Thanks to President Trump and Congressional Republicans selling out our planet and pocketbooks to Big Oil and Gas.... You get a higher electric bill! Your neighbor gets a higher electric bill! EVERYONE gets a higher electric bill!
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Rep
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
is giving us time to fight this thing. Have you called yet this morning?
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3 months ago
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This is one piece of why working for a fair democracy and working for a healthy planet are so intertwined, and why LCV works on both democracy and climate issues:
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3 months ago
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Pete Maysmith
Senator Elissa Slotkin
3 months ago
President Trump ran on lowering costs, but his bill makes energy more expensive and Michiganders will pay 8% more for energy costs. via
www.cnn.com/2025/06/27/c...
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This fight isnât over until its over, and weâre not close to done fighting.
#BigUglyBill
3 months ago
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Pete Maysmith
Tammy Duckworth
3 months ago
The ugliness of this bill doesn't stop. Senate Republicans also voted against your right to breathe clean air.
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We aren't done yet. Keep fighting everyone, we've got a lot more work to do đȘ
3 months ago
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The Republican Rate Hike in the Big Ugly Bill is going to cost us all--see how much more you'll be paying for energy in your state if this bill passes. Then call your Senators at 202-224-3121 and tell them to fix or kill this bill!
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See how your energy prices could change if the GOP passes Trumpâs tax bill | CNN
Republicansâ tax bill would increase Americansâ energy and transportation costs in every state in the continental US.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/27/climate/trump-tax-bill-energy-costs-dg
3 months ago
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Great to spend a little time with
@rowefinkbeiner.bsky.social
this morning -- thanks for the antennae and more importantly for the advocacy to stop the Big Ugly Bill.
4 months ago
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Weâve gone from a cancer moonshot to making Asbestos great again.
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Trump could allow cancer-causing asbestos to return
Exposure to any type of asbestos is known to cause cancer and it is linked to tens of thousands of deaths in the U.S. each year
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/epa-asbestos-ban-trump-b2771679.html
4 months ago
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They are hellbent on ransacking the government to make themselves richer at our expense.
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Oil Industry Gets $1 Billion Tax Tweak in GOPâs Senate Bill
Senate Republicans included a tax break estimated to be worth more than $1 billion for oil and gas producers in their version of President Donald Trumpâs sprawling fiscal package.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-17/oil-industry-gets-1-billion-tax-tweak-in-gop-s-senate-bill
4 months ago
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They're not even trying to hide it anymore.
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4 months ago
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They said they were pro small business. They lied.
www.inquirer.com/life/outdoor...
4 months ago
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Last night at LCVâs annual Capital Dinner, I was able to speak with nearly a thousand climate fighters about the path before us. I wanted to share with you part of what I said to them
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4 months ago
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As dark and daunting as this moment is, the only way out is to stand up, speak out, out organize them and Never. Give. Up.
4 months ago
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Deploying military force against our own communities in LA is heartbreaking, terrifying and wrong. It is also very clearly part of a broader assault on the foundations of our democracy that is dangerous and relentless
4 months ago
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This is cruel, and it is callous. And itâs planned and intentional.
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New Website: âDisappeared in Americaâ Documents the Stories of Those Targeted in Trumpâs America
As Voters Increasingly Reject The Cruel Agenda, The Website Maps The Geographic Scope And Human Impact Of Trumpâs Mass Deportation Agenda
https://hubhighlights.substack.com/p/new-website-disappeared-in-america?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2332173&post_id=162978591&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=385ld1&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
4 months ago
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Great piece on the real-life impacts of the reconciliation package from my former colleagues at
@conservationco.bsky.social
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Republican budget bill would strike blow to clean energy efforts in Colorado
The cuts would repeal or quickly phase out tax credits and loans for things such as home improvements for consumers, electric vehicles, wind and solar.
https://www.denverpost.com/2025/06/02/trump-big-beautiful-bill-clean-energy-tax-credits
4 months ago
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Thinking about new AC? Republicans are taking away tax credits that would make it more affordable.
taxlawcenter.org/blog/house-p...
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House-passed tax bill would end many clean energy credits and add unworkable rules toâŻothers
The major tax and budget legislation advanced by the House of Representatives on May 22 makes deep cuts to tax provisions supporting the deployment of clean energy technologies. This brief summarizes ...
https://taxlawcenter.org/blog/house-passed-tax-bill-would-end-many-clean-energy-credits-and-add-unworkable-rules-to-others#:~:text=Termination%20of%20credits%3A%20The%20House,systems%20and%20water%20heaters
4 months ago
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The headline really says it all.
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Electricity Prices Are Surging. The G.O.P. Megabill Could Push Them Higher.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/climate/electricity-prices-republican-big-beautiful-bill.html
4 months ago
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Scary stuff in this reconciliation package â This is a really big week for calling your Members of Congress and telling them to vote against this atrocious package, which will send all our costs skyrocketing and grow the climate crisis exponentially.
5 months ago
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Getting ready to watch the first leg of
#Arsenal
v PSG Champions League semi-final tie. COYG!! (watching on delay, no spoilers please!)
5 months ago
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