Hot Off the Wire — 9/11/2021 – Olympic Climate Action

UPCOMING MEETINGS

OCA General Meeting Tomorrow

(Join the Zoom meeting)
September 12, 2021
7:00 pm-9:00 pm

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Port Townsend Indivisible
Big Huddle Meeting

China and Its progress on Climate Change

Tuesday, September 14 | 5:00 — 6:30 pm
Zoom meeting: Sponsored by the Foreign Policy Team. (Jefferson County Citizens for Sound Foreign Policy). Dr. Stevan Harrell will be discussing China and Its progress on Climate Change. Dr. Harrell is retired after teaching China studies, anthropology and environmental studies at the Univ. of WA.

See our website for Zoom link: ptindivisiblehuddle.org.

Budget Reconciliation Plan for Climate Mediation

Sign and send the petition: Climate can’t wait. We need historic investments now.
The Senate and House have both passed this critical framework, but we now only have until September 27 to ensure that the infrastructure package is big, bold, and green
— Daily KOS

Call for the Green New Deal Phonebank

Final Countdown for Infrastructure and Democracy Reforms

Solutions

31 Days Left to Tell The Postal Service:
“We Need More Battery Electric Vehicles in our fleet“

Only 10 percent of the 165,00 vehicles the U.S. Postal Service is replacing in the next 10 years will be BEV (Battery Electric Vehicles). This could be 90% according to James Bettcher.

He has written to the Postal Service regarding their Environmental Impact Statement.
Please take a moment to send an e-mail yourself.

Regional Actions

Climate Under: A Conversation with Rep. Mike Levin
This Webinar will discuss the possibility of getting meaningful climate action into the Build Back Better infrastructure package, and talk about how you can get involved.

Pass the Federal “End Polluter Welfare Act”

Local/Regional News

In the Columbia River Basin,
a push to use forestry to fight climate change

Montana’s Yaak Valley is one of the wildest places in the Lower 48. Environmentalists are pushing the Biden administration to make it a ‘climate refuge’

Carbon store: Part of the Kootenai National Forest, the Yaak Valley is the target of a 4,000-acre logging effort. Environmentalists want the Forest Service to start using it to address the climate crisis.

Local and Regional Newsletters

Weekly Announcements

**What Nature Can Do For Your Health**

**Care Workers Demand Federal Support as First Responders in Climate Crises**

Grist - The Burning Issue — **In the drought-stricken West, fires further threaten water supplies**

Restoration, Protection and Recovery Information for the Puget Sound Region

National Actions

Just like two years ago and last year, our planet’s “lungs” are burning — and they’re being destroyed by the fire of corporate greed — more profit, more growth, more return of investment. But unlike 2019, the Amazon fires aren’t getting any media coverage, even though they’re expected to be even more destructive this year.

Support the Hip Hop Caucus Hurricane Relief Fund
–Democracy Now!

Sign the petition to Congress: Support the Polluters Pay Climate Fund Act
— Climate Hawks Vote

Urgent: Extinction Alert

**Gregorio Mirabal from the Wakuenai Kurripako people**

SAY NO to big business lobbyists defending Trump tax cuts

The Build Back Better Act would aggressively fight climate change, expand health care access, offer free pre-school and community college, give child care and elder care workers a living wage, and create a path to citizenship. All of this costs money, and we can pay for it by making the rich and corporations pay their fair share.

Tell Congress: Our kids deserve better — get the lead out of our drinking water!

Deadline Glasgow: Defund Climate Chaos

Demand answers from Big Oil: Join Ro Khanna and 350 in putting the pressure on Big Oil CEOs.

Tell Chase it Needs to Do More For People and Planet

Help End the Climate-Destroying Federal Coal Program

National/International News

A few choice words from Bernie on Labor Day
— Bill McKibben

Nearly 1 in 3 Americans experienced a weather disaster this summer
— The Washington Post

Progressives Push for Fossil Fuel Firms to Pay into Climate Fund
— Bloomberg News

Fossil Fuel Leaks, Spills, Flaring & Chemical Releases After Hurricane Ida May Be Worst Ever Recorded
–Democracy Now!

We’ve been radically underestimating the true cost of our carbon footprint
— VOX

The Bad Economics of the Fossil Fuel Defenders — Paul Krugman

**Why you should ignore claims that we can’t afford to reduce emissions.**

The Status of Tribes and Climate Change (STACC) Report seeks to uplift and honor the voices of Indigenous peoples across the U.S. to increase understanding of Tribal lifeways, cultures, and worldviews, the climate change impacts Tribes are experiencing, the solutions they are implementing, and ways that all of us can support Tribes in adapting to our changing world.

National Newsletters

I See Fire and I See Rain

The Latest News

A daily newsletter by Grist

September 7 — U.S. shipbuilder has launched the nation’s first hydrogen-powered ferry.
September 8 — All the biggest fires are burning in California
September 9 — Biden administration says nearly half of the U.S. electrical grid could be powered by solar by 2050.
September 10 — Indigenous resistance to fossil fuel infrastructure is working.

Opinion

A Pashtun Muslim Leader Might Have Been the Noblest Man of the 20th Century
We’ve left Afghanistan–but that doesn’t mean we can’t learn a great deal from its (nonviolent) history — Bill McKibben

Call for Emergency Action to Limit Global Temperature Increases, Restore Biodiversity, and Protect Health
–The New England Journal of Medicine

The biggest climate criminal is not who you might think
— Ed Fallon

Bill McKibben from The Crucial Years