Volunteers from Across North America Take Non-Partisan Approach to Capitol Hill
Concerned that climate change is making the world unlivable, volunteers from the Central New Jersey chapter of Citizens Climate Lobby traveled to Washington last week to ask members of the Congress to put a price on carbon that would phase out the use of fossil fuels. More than 80 volunteers traveled from as far away as Alaska and Canada to attend the CCL conference, where they heard from renowned climate scientist Dr. James Hansen and visited more than 140 offices in the House and Senate. [Keep reading…]
Citizens Climate Lobby Launches New Groups in PA, NJ
On Thursday, February 24, Citizens Climate Lobby launched a new campus chapter at Villanova University, outside of Philadelphia, then another in central New Jersey, at a working dinner in Fair Haven, Monmouth County. Mark Reynolds, executive director of CCL, led both events, giving volunteers an opportunity to examine both fact and strategy related to shaping a viable, grassroots-based policy to transition the US economy to clean energy.
The Villanova event was a working lunch, with students and faculty joining Mark Reynolds, to hold their first official group meeting, to study key sources of information relating to the climate destabilization crisis and reviewing projects like the Million Letter March, the report Building a Green Economy, and the CCL National Conference in Washington, DC, as means of increasing citizens’ access to the process of making policy.
Citizens Climate Lobby Takes Campaign to Capitol Hill
Between June 21 and 25, Citizens Climate Lobby took its message to Capitol Hill, meeting with 52 different members of Congress, or their energy and climate staff, in both the House and the Senate. The first CCL national conference was fortuitously timed, as the ongoing disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has brought into stark relief the nature of the carbon-fuel problem and the urgent need for action to achieve a civilization-wide overhaul of energy infrastructure, and the climate bill pending in the Senate may not have the votes to override a filibuster.
(Source: thehotspring.net)
