Lisa Danz

"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."

How the DOE and EPA used and misused my research Elevating contrarian views while burying the actual science

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....

CCL volunteers posing in front of Nancy Pelosi’s office with her staff member McKenzie.

#CCL2025

Karina Ramirez giving closing remarks at Citizens' Climate Lobby conference.

"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

Speaking panel including panelists Ann M. Bartuska, PhD, Nyasha (Nya) Osifeso, Danielle Watson, and moderator Dana Nuccitelli.

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

Photo of Flannery Winchester, Danny Richter, and Mindy Ahler of Citizens’ Climate Lobby, with a slide that says “Perfect your Lobby Plan.”

#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! 👏

"You could have made a transmission line out of paper mâché" - Daniel Palken, Ph.D. #CCL2025

"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