My letter about saving transit funding got published in @mercurynews.com 😊. Thanks @connectbayarea.bsky.social for providing the opportunity to volunteer and collect signatures. Local friends, if you haven't signed yet, hit me up, or check connectbayarea.com for upcoming events where you can sign.

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

Major #carbonpricing news this month: The EU has "fully implement[ed] a functioning border carbon adjustment policy." In order to trade certain goods with Europe, "importers must now pay for the greenhouse gas emissions contained on their products." www.clearbluemarkets.com/knowledge-ba...

"To use current policy scenarios in order to justify the repeal of current policies (as the EPA is attempting to do) rests on a fundamentally flawed premise. If the world actively repeals climate policies – which the US proposes doing – it would potentially push us to a higher emissions scenario."

I have a new post over at The Climate Brink on how the recent DOE report on climate science and the EPA's proposed overturning of the endangerment finding used and misused my research: www.theclimatebrink....

"Be you. Bring your most beautiful self to these meetings. Bring your CCL values to these meetings. And thank you for standing up for climate." -- @karinaframirez.bsky.social #CCL2025

"There's a sense of urgency here. There is a chance that members will sit on this bill and wait until another catastrophic wildfire hits." - Nyasha (Nya) Osifeso at #CCL2025

Loggers are trained on preserving old-growth forests. There has been some movement to reduce some of those standards, in order to move faster, and this is where we have to keep working with the logger training community to keep those standards in place. - Ann M. Bartuska, Ph.D. #CCL2025

There are some community-based programs where people are taken through a forest to see and really understand the impact of forest management practices. One thing that people enjoy is, under controlled conditions, setting a little prescribed burn themselves. - Ann M. Bartuska, Ph.D. #CCL2025

"The Senate version included a lot more input from community groups and organizations, and it's a stronger bill because of that. That's what got us to a yes." - Nyasha Osifeso of Environmental Defense Fund on #FixOurForestsAct #CCL2025 #GrassrootsClimate

"There are landscapes where 10,000 acres isn't a lot. And there are landscapes where 10,000 is a hell of a lot." - Danielle Watson, on right-sizing projects, and the updates in #FixOurForestsAct to categorial exclusions #CCL2025

"The Senate Bill is a clear improvement over the House bill." - Nyasha (Nya) Osifeso, on the #FixOurForestsAct #CCL2025

"Forests can go up in flames if treatments that are necessary are delayed." -- Nyasha (Nya) Osifeso #CCL2025

New tracking technology lets us analyze a fire in real time and determine within 20 minutes if it's a beneficial fire and we should let it burn, or whether we need to fight it. Fix our Forests Act has funding for that technology. -- Ann M. Bartuska, Ph.D. #CCL2025

Danielle Watson of American Forests is highlighting her colleague Kendall DeLyser's report on the latest science on forestry management bof.fire.ca.gov/media/daimp0.... #CCL2025 #FixOurForestsAct

"Every decision that we make, even decisions to take no action, those are management decisions." -- Danielle Watson on forest management at #CCL2025

Learning more about the Fix our Forests Act from these experts. #CCL2025

Jenn Tyler: Given the influence of the administration, how effective are our conversations with members of Congress? Brandon Farris: Thankfully, President Trump also wants permitting reform. He wants it for oil and gas, but you can't do it without 60 votes in the Senate. #CCL2025

Jenn Tyler: What do you say to Democrats who are worried about permitting reform in this moment? Brandon Farris: I would say, it has to be bipartisan. Make sure your voice is heard. #CCL2025

"You don't pass a lot of individual bills in Congress anymore. You go for a few must-pass bills, and then you tie something to it." - Brandon Farris at #CCL2025

"We haven't substantially reformed permitting since the 1970's. Let's stop making the perfect the enemy of the good." - Brandon Farris at #CCL2025

One of the main takeaways from the last election was the affordability is really important to the American people. We know that investing in clean energy makes energy less expensive, and we should make that point. - Dr. Danny Richter at #CCL2025

"When crafting your message, don't say anything that you don't personally believe in. You're trying to craft a message that resonates with them while still being authentic." - Mindy Ahler at #CCL2025

"You want to use words where the member of Congress thinks, 'I could say that to my constituents, and I want to say that.'" "To get them to actually do it, it takes relationship-building over time." - Dr. Danny Richter at #CCL2025

"If we're not asking someone to do something they wouldn't otherwise do, that's not lobbying." - Dr. Danny Richter at #CCL2025

"We're going to try to convince them to do what we want them to do, but we're going to wrap that in language that they could imagine themselves using." - Flannery Winchester #CCL2025

#CCL2025 Looking forward to improving my volunteer lobbying skills.

Good morning ☀️ there’s over 850 climate advocates gathering together today for the #CCL2025 @cclusa.org conference here in DC getting ready for our 400 lobby meetings tomorrow and building political will for a livable world! We are #inspired and ready for #grassrootsclimate action! 👏

"The trajectory of technologies has really changed the paradigm on what will get built under what policy regime." - Daniel Palken, Ph.D. #CCL2025

"None of us want to go back to the time before environmental laws, with rivers lighting on fire. But, what these laws started as is not what they have become. At first, a typical NEPA report was about 20 pages. A recent one was about 10,000 pages." - Daniel Palken, Ph.D. #CCL2025

"Permitting reform, part of what makes it so interesting to work on, is that it divides the coalitions of both parties." -- Daniel Palken, Ph.D. #CCL2025

"If you come into a negotiation with your mind made up about what the answer has to be, it's unlikely that you're going to get to a solution." - Daniel Palken, Ph.D. #CCL2025

Last year, EPRA got a vast majority of the votes in committee, in a bipartisan vote. It shows the latent opportunity of permitting reform. If you craft it right, if you set it up right, you can get bipartisan approval. - Daniel Palken, Ph.D. #CCL2025

We currently have good technology and bad policy. That's better than the reverse. Texas has massively shifted to solar and wind because the tech is better, and they've kept electricity rates low, which is critical for the clean energy transition. - Daniel Palken, Ph.D. #CCL2025

If you combine the Inflation Reduction Act (a step forward) and the One Big Beautiful Bill (a step backward), we still have the biggest climate investment in American history. The silver lining is that the remaining policies have that bipartisan stamp of approval. - Daniel Palken, Ph.D. #CCL2025

“Our setbacks are temporary — our momentum is real.” CCL Interim Executive Director Ricky Bradley kicks off #CCL2025 this morning!

"We know that if they cut these clean energy programs, if they cut DOE funding for innovation, energy costs are going to rise in the future. That investment has to happen now, in order to see those benefits down the road." - Jenn Tyler at #CCL2025

"We're talking about supporting clean energy. That's our focus." - Jenn Tyler, #CCL2025

"The vast majority of the projects that are waiting in the interconnection queue are solar, battery storage, and wind." - Dana Nuccitelli, on why clean energy permitting reform is necessary and helpful, at #CCL2025

Unfortunately, the recent rollbacks to clean energy investments will cost us $100s more per year. Here's CCL's graph. #CCL2025

"I can't overstate how important it is that a Republican Congress kept in those longer-term clean energy tax credits in the reconciliation bill. That bill was 25% less bad for the climate than the original draft, and that's in large part because of our advocacy." - Jenn Tyler at #CCL2025

"The actions that we all take today are like penstrokes, writing into existence the future that they [future generations] will inherit." - Rebecca Utech at #CCL2025

How do you engage with someone else who's clearly in a state of high conflict? "Use a strategy from deescalation - looping - a form of tactical listening where you think, what is really important to this person, then put it in your own words, then check if you got it right." - Amanda Ripley #CCL2025

How do you get out of high conflict and a state of frustration? "Getting into a state of flow is very important. For some people it's gardening, meditating, praying, etc. Also take a long view. Widen the aperture of the situation. Think about decades." -- Amanda Ripley at #CCL2025

"The goal is to stay in good conflict in your own head. It's a daily practice." "There are opportunities all around you. And if you're not in good conflict, if you're in high conflict, you're going to make mistakes." -- Amanda Ripley at #CCL2025 #CitizensClimate

"Any time you feel like there are only two choices, you're probably making a mistake." - Amanda Ripley at #CCL2025

"The only way to stay out of high conflict in the long term is to cultivate a tradition and a culture of healthy conflict. Avoidance doesn't get you there." - Amanda Ripley at #CCL2025

"High conflict is like the La Brea Tar pits. It is a trap. You will feel pulled into it. Everything in you will want to go into those tar pits, for very understandable evolutionary reasons. There are now 4000 dire wolf bones in the LaBrea Tar pits. So, be careful." - Amanda Ripley

When you view the world as us vs them, all the normal human biases become amplified, and you make more mistakes. You ultimately end up hurting the thing you are trying to protect. -- Amanda Ripley #CCL2025