Solutions
Illinois Shows Us What the Road to Clean Energy Should Look Like
Here’s how a formidable clean energy coalition helped pass the most equitable climate legislation in the country—and developed a blueprint for other states to follow.
— NRDC
Industry experts discuss how green energy investments impact manufacturing, business development and international trade.
Save the Date! — January 10-14, 2022
Sessions will be on Zoom, streaming on Facebook, and Instagram Live.
Industry leaders Siemens, BMW, the U.S. Dept. of Transportation and Xcel Energy, will discuss the Biden administration’s impact on the transportation industry.
Europe is ahead of the US with e-car options. How’s that going?
Reconnecting the Elwha River
A new report on fish use of the Elwha, before and after dam removal.
Would the Snake River benefit similarly?
… reconnecting the Elwha River through dam removal provided fish access to portions of the watershed that had been blocked for nearly a century.“
Regional Actions
Contact Gov. Inslee and Senator Murray
Thank them for their commitment to protect Snake River salmon from extinction with an action plan in 2022!
Developing a comprehensive plan for Snake River salmon and Northwest communities
Advocating for a Just Transition in the 2022 Legislative Session
— 350 WA Civic Action Team
Dec. 16 | 12 pm PT
350 WA Network CAT Listening Sessions
ahead of the 2022 WA Legislative Session
Join us for a very special year-end webinar,
“Unearthing Sorrows, Planting Hope“
Coming to a boycott near you
Conservatives Have a New Bogeyman:
Critical Energy Theory
Inside ALEC’s new campaign to push anti-climate legislation across the country.
— The New Republic
Understanding Climate Policy
Speaker Ted Larson Freeman, Citizens’ Climate Lobby
Dec. 13 | 7 pm PT
Joins the Meeting – Passcode: Climate
Local/Regional News
What’s happening in our State Forests?
The Great American Stand
US Forests and the Climate Emergency
Why the United States needs an aggressive forest protection
agenda focused in its own backyard.
Virtual Oral Arguments:
Conservation Northwest, et al. v. Commissioner of Public Lands
Should DNR continue to maximize immediate profit from our Public Lands Trust?
Protect our State Forests
How are our forests being managed, and how can you get involved.
Forest Practices Board is ‘slow-walking’ Clean Water Act (CWA) Assurances
Let the Department of Ecology know this is urgent.
— Washington Environmental Council
Sustainable Harvest Calculation scoping requests for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement
Transportation Package –
350WA CAT weekly news
National Climate Assessment:
Northwest Chapter Engagement Workshop
February 1 | 9:30 am — 2 pm PT
Free Registration
National Climate Assessment:
CALL FOR PUBLIC COMMENT
USGCRP’s Review and Comment System
Thru January 11, 2022
Studium Generale | Dec 2, 2021, Celebrating the Lives of Beavers
Ben Goldfarb and Robert Knapp
Local and Regional Newsletters
National Actions
Urgent Action Needed:
Tell Biden to Scrap Offshore Drilling Plans
Tell President Biden: No drilling on public lands
In his Democratic Presidential Debate with Sen. Sanders, Pres. Biden said, “… no more subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, no more drilling on federal lands, no more drilling including offshore, no more ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period, ends!”
Trump-era Drilling Boom Continues Under Biden
More than 300 permits per month in 2021.
— Public Citizen
Our latest report, Linked Fates, reveals that California is the world’s largest consumer of oil from the Amazon rainforest.
Pledge to End California’s Consumption of Amazon Crude!
Call President Biden at 202-456-1111
to urge him to do everything he can to pass crucial voting rights legislation
Use Procurement Powers of the Federal Government to Fight Climate Change!
Tell President Biden:
We need climate leaders at the Fed
Tell Biden also:
No drilling on public lands
Next Up: Final Push for the BBBA!
Build Back Better
Virtual Phone Bank
Join us to make calls to MoveOn members in West Virginia and Arizona.
Tuesdays and Thursdays – 2:30 — 4:30pm PT
Tell your senator to pass the Build Back Better Act!
Take Action:
Tell the Senate “Let’s finish the job and send the BBB Act to President Biden’s desk!“
We need a Build Back Better Act that invests in fighting the climate crisis now!
Demand the EPA limit methane, the oil & gas industry super-pollutant
Tell e-commerce giants: no more dirty deliveries!
E-commerce companies need to decarbonize their vehicles 22x faster.
Ratify the Convention on Biological Diversity and commit to ending extinction now
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2022: Power the plan
to save life on Earth
8 years. 96 months. Or just short of 3,000 days.
That’s how long scientists say we have to cut carbon emissions by more than half, end the extinction crisis, and avoid an all-out ecological collapse.
National/International News
Jordan Cove LNG developers told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission it would not move forward with the project.
ProPublica Series on global climate migration
We have for the first time modeled how climate refugees might move across international borders.
Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration
Life has become increasingly untenable in the hardest-hit areas.
National Newsletters
We Need to Call Them Out
A daily newsletter by Grist
December 6 — Shell is walking away from a proposed oil field in Scotland.
December 7 — Virginia regulators say a natural gas project is incompatible with environmental justice.
December 8 — Greece is ahead of the pack when it comes to ditching coal.
December 9 — EV chargers are coming to a highway near you.
December 10 — The Biden administration is pushing the U.S. to be carbon-neutral by 2050.
Opinion
No government that really regarded climate change as its top energy priority would close nuclear plants before the end of their useful lives.
— The Atlantic
Analysis by the
Addressing Insider Threats
in Elections
There is an active effort to recruit rogue election officials to sabotage elections across the country.
Adventures in High-End Greenwashing
Older, Bolder–and Still Pretty Loud
First National Organizing Call for Third Act is Tonight
— Bill McKibben
A look back at COP26
A Deep Dive Into the World’s Oceans, Lakes, and Drill Holes
The Princess of the Bottom of the World
If you are interested in travel, Antarctica, climate change, or romance, you must read this.”
Smashwords user review
Electricity Myths, Hoaxes and Rumors
Is this Texas-Sized Icicle Really the Result of the February 2021 Freeze?
Another hoax that sprang from Texas’ big freeze.
Olympic Climate Action 