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US helps sink world’s first global carbon tax | CNN A fierce Trump administration push to stop the global shipping industry from paying for its own climate pollution appears successful.

We're disappointed that the Trump administration took such a strong oppositional stance to the IMO's exploration of a carbon price on global shipping.

Pricing carbon pollution is smart, effective policy, and we remain committed to building more support for it in the U.S.

Hosted by CCL NJ: Phone bank into New Jersey Join the Environmental Voter Project and Citizens' Climate Lobby New Jersey to turn out low propensity environmental voters in New Jersey ahead of their November 4th gubernatorial election!

🚨 Calling all CCLers!

Join CCL New Jersey this coming Tues., Oct. 28th to mobilize environmental voters for the New Jersey general election!

Sign up and spread the word!

cc: @cclusa.org

www.environmentalvoter.org/cclnjoct282025

Citizens Addressing our Changing Climate: Bemidji derecho increases worries about local wildfires By passing the Fix Our Forests Act, senators can protect lives, livelihoods and lands by reducing wildfire risk, strengthening local economies, and ensuring science-based forest restoration.

CCL volunteer Polly Merhar shares personal reflections on the impacts of growing wildfires in a new op-ed for the Bemidji Pioneer.

She calls on Minnesota's Senators @klobuchar.senate.gov and @smith.senate.gov to support the #FixOurForests Act.

Advertising image for CCL's Fall Virtual Conference: "Sharper Than Ever: CCL's Next Chapter" November 14-15, 2025. Learn more: cclusa.org/fallconference. Image features two women conversing over a laptop

🚨 Registration is now OPEN for CCL’s Fall Virtual Conference — Sharper Than Ever: CCL’s Next Chapter (Nov 14-15)

Learn about permitting reform, reconnect with our values, and sharpen your advocacy skills.

Save your spot: cclfallconference2025.eventbrite.com?utm_medium=s...

Fact-checking a Trump administration claim about climate change and crops » Yale Climate Connections A recent Department of Energy report falsely states that rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere will boost agricultural yields. In fact, climate change is much more likely to make food scarcer...

For @climateconnections.bsky.social today, with the help of @bobkopp.net & @andrewdessler.com's team of 85 climate scientists and the National Academies, I fact checked the EPA/DOE's claim that carbon pollution is good for food production. Spoiler alert: it's not. Article and 🧵 (1/9):

Shrinking Forest Service falls behind on wildfire prevention "Operational challenges" have hampered the use of prescribed fire to reduce potential wildfire fuel, according to Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz.

The U.S. Forest Service has treated about 4 million fewer acres than this time last year. We're way behind on thinning, prescribed fire, and related actions.

www.eenews.net/articles/shr...

As a volunteer with CCL, I can say that this has been my personal experience and has become more and more so since I began visiting congressional offices on both sides of the aisle nine years ago.

In front of drowning nations, Trump calls climate change a 'con job.' Here are the facts and context In his address at the United Nations General Assembly, U.S. President Donald Trump excoriated renewable energy, international climate diplomacy, the science of global warming and other environmental i...

In a speech to the UN yesterday, President Trump falsely claimed that climate change is a "con job," that renewables are "too expensive," and that coal is "clean."

@apnews.com takes a closer look at the president's statements and the scientific reality.

Promotional image for "Rooted in Care, Growing in Community," CCL's Virtual inclusion conference, help on September 26-27, 2025. Image also features the CCL logo and imagery of three CCL volunteers talking to one another in a group.

YOU'RE INVITED: CCL'S 4TH ANNUAL INCLUSION CONFERENCE SEPT. 26-27

A virtual conference dedicated to strengthening communities, cultivating connections, and grounding our movements in care.

👉 See the full speaker lineup and register for free: cclusa.org/ce0

CCL @cclusa.org has many teams and groups dedicated to different communities. Here are some of the activities taking place. Visit CCL's Action Team Directory to join the teams and learn the needed Zoom information to connect with our volunteers. Info: community.citizensclimate.org/groups/actio...

Rooted in our relationships: A tree planting for Senator Stabenow Michigan CCLers celebrated the retiring senator's climate legacy with a tree planting, after working with her for more than 10 years.

On behalf of CCL and our Michigan volunteers, thank you Senator Stabenow for more than a decade of work on bipartisan climate solutions 🎉

We take our relationships with Congress seriously. Read more ⬇️

Thanks @cclusa.org, @rewiringamerica.bsky.social & all the campaign organizations making it easy to find resources and information to help electrify! ⚡️ With help from this guide our family will be installing a cold climate heat pump this fall to benefit from the tax incentives before they’re gone!

The fix is in Judy Curry unwittingly spills the beans

On The Climate Brink: More about the DOE Climate Working Group report.

The Fix Is In: Without independent review editors, their “peer review” process is a sham. Science and humanity deserves better.

Power price stability and the insurance value of renewable technologies - Nature Energy Increasing solar photovoltaic and wind generation capacity beyond European 2030 targets could make electricity prices more stable, with reductions in sensitivity to fluctuations in the price of natura...

Two new papers find renewables are good insurance (they stabilize electricity price volatility in welfare improving ways)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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This campaign will help you go electric before federal tax credits end As the GOP kills incentives, Rewiring America is offering free online tools and weekly calls to get more clean energy and efficient appliances into homes.

It’s use-it-or-lose-it time for federal energy efficiency tax credits.

This @rewiringamerica.bsky.social‬ campaign aims to make sure everyone takes advantage before it's too late.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/ele...

Trump Blamed Rising Electricity Prices on Renewables. It’s Not True. Some simple charts show there’s no real relationship to speak of.

Clean energy helps keep electricity costs in check.

"In some of the states with the highest level of renewables, prices have either risen more modestly than average or even fallen," @heatmap.news reports.

heatmap.news/energy/renew...

I like this org because they are focused on acting *strategically and effectively*.

Tell Congress to protect the clean energy tax credits Tell Congress we want this investment in American jobs and affordable clean energy.

We're less than 400 emails away from reaching our goal of 10,000 messages to Congress! Will you help us cross the finish line today? 🏆

Tell your members of Congress to reject proposed cuts to key climate and clean energy programs in the FY26 budget ⬇

citizensclimatelobby.org/get-loud-tak...

What we achieved by passing and protecting the IRA Compared to a world in which the IRA never became law, we’ll save about 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide pollution over the next decade.

Many of the Inflation Reduction Act's climate measures are expiring soon.

But while they were in place, they put us on track to save about 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide pollution over the next decade!

"Every ton of avoided carbon pollution makes a difference," says @dananuccitelli.bsky.social.

How scientists can contribute to social movements and climate action Collective action on climate is crucial. Scientists play an important role in driving change.

"It’s more important than ever that our professional bodies and institutions are emboldened by their membership to advocate for the public good that science brings, and the need to defend academic freedom, recognising that often means speaking truth to power."

Notice of Availability: A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE or the Department) seeks public comment on the draft report produced by DOE's Climate Working Group (CWG), titled "A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emi...

If you'd like to offer comments on the misleading & error-ridden US federal report, "Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate," the link to do so is below.

Comments are due by Sept 2. Pls see next post for links to resources that debunk the claims in this report.

Thank you to our Utah legislators for meeting with us about supporting clean energy for affordable and reliable power! #grassrootsclimate #CCL2025

The Republican campaign to stop the U.S. EPA from protecting the climate » Yale Climate Connections An audacious effort to destroy climate regulations is likely headed for a showdown at the Supreme Court.

“The Republican campaign to stop the U.S. EPA from protecting the climate” | Article by @dananuccitelli.bsky.social for @climateconnections.bsky.social:

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/08/the-...

Carbon Pricing Is Dead. Long Live Carbon Pricing!, with Danny Richter Danny Richter discusses the evolving landscape of carbon pricing policy, outlining how programs have achieved lasting environmental and economic success by adapting to unique political priorities.

Is carbon pricing dead? Not quite. 🌎 ⚖️

Carbon pricing advocates are meeting the political moment to deliver emissions reductions. On Resources Radio, Danny Richter explains how carbon pricing policy has achieved lasting environmental and economic success.

🎧: www.resources.org/resources-ra...

From the Chicago area @cclusa.org

Sun Day Together, we will change the future of climate change. Join the largest movement for climate action.

Want to learn more about the power of clean energy and how you can join the movement to build more of it? Head to sunday.earth

GOP senators place holds on Trump Treasury nominees in renewable energy standoff The actions follow an effort by a handful of Senate Republicans to meet with administration officials about the future of the tax credits for wind and solar projects.

Key Senate Republicans are unhappy with the "expected clampdown on wind and solar projects’ use of tax credits."

Now Sens. Grassley and Curtis have placed holds on three Treasury nominees — "a significant escalation of the battle over renewable energy tax breaks."

www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

What is less well understood is how poorly the United States is prepared to match this rise in electricity demand with an equivalent increase in supply. To some degree, American electricity prices are already rising: So far this year, utilities have received or requested permission to increase customers’ bills by $29 billion, according to a July report from PowerLines, a think tank and advocacy group. That’s a large number in its own right, and it’s more than twice as much as had been approved at this time last year. But when you look across the power system, virtually every trend is setting us up for electricity price spikes: The supply chain to build new natural gas power plants is backed up. Virtually all new utility-scale gas turbines are spoken for until the end of this decade, as Heatmap News covered in February. U.S. natural gas supplies will come under more strain in the next few years as fossil fuel companies export more of the fuel abroad. From 2024 to 2028, North America’s liquified natural gas export capacity is projected to double. Many of the key components to build more grid infrastructure — such as copper or steel — have surged in cost due to Trump’s tariffs and self-induced trade uncertainty. The federal government has become a less stable fiscal and financing partner for energy producers and distributors. On Wednesday, Energy Secretary Chris Wright killed a government loan guarantee for the Grain Belt Express transmission project. Why? “To ensure more responsible stewardship of taxpayer resources,” but also because President Trump asked him to.

It’s hard to find a trend in the electricity system right now that *doesn’t* point to near-term rate hikes if not a broad affordability crisis. That’s a serious problem for climate policy, but also the American economy writ large. I wrote about it: heatmap.news/politics/ele...

The Republican campaign to stop the U.S. EPA from protecting the climate » Yale Climate Connections An audacious effort to destroy climate regulations is likely headed for a showdown at the Supreme Court.

I read EPA’s 302-page proposal to nuke the endangered endangerment finding so that you don’t have to, and wrote about what the insanity all means for @climateconnections.bsky.social. Thanks to @gregdotson.bsky.social, @hausfath.bsky.social, @michaelemann.bsky.social for the input. Article & 🧵(1/14):