The top four solutions are all (big surprise) clean energy. Which, coincidentally, also saves consumers money.

NJ isn't the best state for EV owners, but it's near the top.

Urban trees can't significantly reduce global heating, but they can make it significantly less deadly.

What can you expect for this year's Summer Conference program? CCL's Brett Cease has the scoop 🍨 #CCLinDC Learn more and register now: cclusa.org/8ce

Tonight at 8pm on Zoom: a "deep dive" into BRIDGE Training #6, "The Scale of Support: Defining the Next Step." RSVP here: community.citizensclimate.org/events/item/...

Americans agree: climate change is making life more expensive. grist.org/economics/ho...

The Trump administration took down all its climate information. The scientists put it back.

Even if fossil fuel prices fall, folks who have already gone green have no reason to go back.

The Senate just UNANIMOUSLY blocked the Trump administration's plan to dismantle an ocean monitoring system "critical to understanding climate change and marine ecosystems." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...

CCL’s Summer Conference and Lobby Day is a great opportunity to generate local media coverage. You can lay the groundwork now by finding the right media contacts and building relationships with them. Check out this month’s Action Sheet for details: community.citizensclimate.org/resources/it...

A solid majority of Americans, both left and right, support energy permitting reform and permitting certainty. CCL's Dana Nuccitelli digs into the data here: community.citizensclimate.org/discuss/view...

For those who missed last Saturday's national call, the recording is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBRv... Important takeaway from speaker Tyson Bertone-Riggs: "If we are too pessimistic about Congress's ability to act, we have let them off the hook."

Nadine, our chapter leader, reports that the recent Rutgers webinar on the State of the Climate in NJ was excellent. You can watch the recording here: njclimateresourcecenter.rutgers.edu/past_events/...

National training tonight to prepare for the upcoming Summer Conference and Lobby Day. 8-9 on Zoom, no registration needed. community.citizensclimate.org/events/item/...

From California to Texas to New York, solar/wind/batteries are pushing fossil fuels to the margins this spring. It's unprecedented: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle... via @canarymedia.com

After repeated losses in court, the Trump administration has dropped its legal fight against all new wind turbines. They tilted at windmills, and the windmills won. www.eenews.net/articles/sta...

Most Americans want government action on climate change. Most government figures don't know that. There's only one way to fix that: tell them as often as possible. (You can start here: citizensclimatelobby.org/get-loud-tak...)

More good news: U of Rochester scientists have found a way to generate freshwater with a side of lithium (two things the world is going to need lots of). www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/06/scie...

More news from the silver lining department where energy costs are concerned.

This month's action: Write to Members of Congress asking them to support funding for the US Forest Service. www.cclusa.org/forestfunding

An MIT analysis finds, once again, that renewable energy does not raise energy prices for consumers. (The one surprising exception: rooftop solar, due to "rate structures that shift fixed rooftop solar costs onto non-solar customers.") ceepr.mit.edu/workingpaper...

BRIDGE Training Unit 2, Chapter 2 ("Advocacy Detective: Researching Your Audience") is now available. Learn how best to influence MOCS by connecting with their worldview and moral foundations. community.citizensclimate.org/BRIDGE/Unit-...

To commemorate the feeling of your first conference, we asked a few veteran CCLers to tell us about their first experience in D.C. Their answers far exceeded our expectations 🥹 Take a look at the video in our newest #blog ⬇️

The Fix Our Forests Act (FOFA) is making progress! In a recent Senate Agricultural Committee hearing, Chairman Boozman (R-AR) confirmed his commitment to FOFA in his opening remarks and pledged to get it across the finish line in the Senate. www.agriculture.senate.gov/hearings/ove...

In NJ, people with smart meters can't take part in demand-response programs to lower their bills. Perhaps they need to complain to the Board of Public Utilities about this: www.nj.gov/bpu/assistan...

More than a quarter of new cars sold around the world this year will be battery-powered — even as the U.S. takes a big step back. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/electric-vehicles/electric-cars-starting-take-over-world

Chapter meeting this Saturday, 6/13, 1-3 at UUCS or 2-3 on Zoom. Details and RSVP here: community.citizensclimate.org/groups/event...

If there's one thing CCL loves more than a clean energy bill, it's a clean energy bill with bipartisan support.

The clean energy transition depends on rare earth elements, which are not at all clean to mine for. "Remining" from waste offers a potential solution.

And for those who missed any part of CCL's permitting reform training series, it's available here: community.citizensclimate.org/topics/clean...

Live training tonight, "AI and Advocacy: Keeping Relationships at the Center." It's about using AI to learn more about your MOCs to help you lobby effectively. 8-9 on Zoom. community.citizensclimate.org/events/item/...

Funnily enough, the grid is doing just fine without this supposedly essential coal plant, "in large part thanks to new wind, solar, and batteries."

NJ is one of the 7 states suing over the TotalEnergies deal. Our AG, Jennifer Davenport, called it a "lawless attack on clean energy development" that's "bad for the grid, for our economy, and for ratepayers."

Grist's Climate Therapist offers some useful advice on dealing with climate anxiety. (Part of the solution: "staying current on the real progress being made," which is why we make a point of posting about the good stuff.) grist.org/culture/ask-...

When you can't avoid air travel, you can still make a dent in your carbon emissions by flying economy, flying direct, and taking only one bag. Great news for us cheapskates. (Thanks to @katharinehayhoe.com for steering me to the article.) www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

Making the biggest polluters pay for the damage they've caused to our state? What a concept. www.nj.com/business/202...

Yes, EVs are definitively cheaper and cleaner in nearly every part of the U.S. MIT has done the math to prove it.

And this Sunday, there's a special lobby skills training session just for the under-18 crowd. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Tonight, CCL wraps up its permitting reform training series with a focus on effective communication and tailoring messages to fit your audience. 8-9pm on Zoom. RSVP here: community.citizensclimate.org/events/item/...

Check out CCL's recap of our Earth Month activities: citizensclimatelobby.org/blog/grassro...

Yet another promising development in energy storage: Noon energy's carbon batteries. Too soon to say if they'll supplant lithium, but definitely worth keeping an eye on (see what I did there?). www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAdu...

Thank you, solar and batteries!

More than a dozen stories on climate solutions from NPR. Thanks, @katharinehayhoe.com.

BRIDGE Training #5, The Advocacy Detective: Build Your Common Ground Blueprint, is live tonight at 8pm. RSVP here: community.citizensclimate.org/events/item/...

The Save Our Sequoias Act recently passed the House (H.R. 2709), and a companion bill has been introduced in the Senate (S. 4103). More about CCL's support for the bill here: citizensclimatelobby.org/blog/policy/...

Watch CCL's Ricky Bradley, Third Act's Bill McKibben, and NPR's Rebecca Hersher talk about understanding climate deniers and having "discussions that move beyond division": www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t7z...

Modern geothermal energy has everything going for it. It's clean, it's constant, and it's *not* actively opposed by an administration that's otherwise all in on fossil fuel.

Primary day is June 6. You can check your registration, find your polling place, and check out the candidates at www.vote411.org Also, LCV is hosting a candidate forum for District 7 at 11am, 5/27: www.mobilize.us/njlcv/event/...

Thanks to the growth of renewable energy, the worst-case global heating scenario is now off the table. This is a reason to keep the momentum going, not back down. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/c...

First came the globe’s solar boom. Now, batteries are taking center stage. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/batteries/world-installing-grid-batteries