Citizens Climate Lobby - East Metro

06/02/2026

What changes a Member of Congress’s mind?
In this special edition BRIDGE training, CCL staff walk through the three conditions we believe are necessary for a Member of Congress to take meaningful action on climate policy: undeniable support, strong conviction, and political safety.

When a given climate policy has undeniable support from constituents, it's showing up in visible, consistent ways across different parts of the district. The support is broad, noticeable, and difficult to ignore.

When a Member of Congress experiences strong conviction around a policy, they're making an internal judgment that the policy is worthwhile and aligned with their sense of what is right or beneficial.

When it's politically safe to support a policy, that means a Member of Congress judges that it will not harm their political standing—and may even strengthen it—because there is sufficient support or acceptance among their voters and allies.

06/01/2026

"California has become the latest Democratic-led state to retreat on climate goals amid affordability concerns as regulators Friday revamped its carbon market to ease costs to the oil industry." - Bloomberg Green Daily

"The California Air Resources Board (CARB) voted to give up as much as $4 billion worth of free allowances to oil refiners and other industrial polluters to help them comply with greenhouse gas limits imposed by the state’s 13-year-old carbon market, called Cap-and-Invest.

Economists and environmentalists said the change may lead to higher emissions and lower prices on the carbon market.... That would slash billions of dollars in revenues that pay for other initiatives to reduce emissions as well as for safe drinking water, affordable housing and wildfire resilience programs.

“It’s no secret that climate policy is at a crossroads, under attack by an openly hostile and well-funded opposition and upended by global economic upheaval,” CARB Chair Lauren Sanchez said Thursday. “Moving forward shows that we can be responsive to affordability concerns.”

Meanwhile, the first phase of the state’s landmark plastic pollution law is going live Monday."

05/25/2026

We have more work to do to communicate our need for nuclear energy to mitigate Global Warming (aka Climate Change). This pic is from the 2026 MayDayParade at Powderhorn Park.

05/22/2026

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/un-backs-world-court-climate-opinion-us-among-few-oppose-2026-05-20/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=Sustainable-Switch&utm_term=052226&lctg=680f4bd7c3e51a3bcdbdb076&user_email=645e8bf1fe0e0d3dbdebdb9274a29289de87581b0be6c62c2873eb7469c43c2a

The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday voted 141-8 to adopt a resolution backing a world court opinion ​that countries have a legal obligation to address climate change, with the ‌world's biggest historical emitter the United States among those opposing it.

05/17/2026

https://www.mnrenewables.org/community-solar-garden
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MRES, along with our parter Greenway Solar, has built a community solar garden, where qualifying households can apply for a subscription and save money on their monthly electric bill.

05/14/2026

05/14/2026

https://cybernews.com/tech/germany-balcony-solar-craze/

Germany is experiencing a boom in small balcony solar power plants.

05/01/2026

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-01/india-s-heat-exposes-a-fragile-grid-as-energy-crunch-deepens?cmpid=BBD050126_GREENDAILY&utm_campaign=greendaily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=260501&utm_content=4065&embedded-checkout=true

04/24/2026

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