Citizens' Climate Lobby Maine
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Creating the political will for a livable world
Citizens' Climate Lobby is a grassroots, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to address climate change due to fossil fuel use in the US and around the world. Our primary policy is a revenue neutral, market based solution. Carbon Fee and Dividend will dramatically reduce fossil fuel emissions while protecting household purchasing power, improving accountability, and helping the economy (see the REMI report for details).
We also support and advocate for nature-based solutions and electrification, though between now and November we are focusing on encouraging Americans to vote on climate.
Find out more at CitizensClimateLobby.org
under the 'About' and 'Our Climate Solution' top menu buttons. If you would like to help, tell congress you want climate action now. If you would like to do even more, click the 'Join CCL' button at the top of any of those pages. After you sign up, someone from your local chapter will contact you.
We are supporting the Energy Innovation and Carbon Fee and Dividend Act (HR 2307), which was reintroduced in the House April 1, 2021 by Rep. Ted Deutsch with 28 co-sponsors, one of whom is Representative Chellie Pingree (D-ME-01), who was one of the co-sponsors of the 2020 bill. As of March 30, 2022 there were 96 co-sponsors and more will be coming on board.
There are now a number of carbon fee and dividend bills in Congress, and we fully expect that a Senate companion bill to H.R. 2307 will also be reintroduced this session. The momentum is rising!
Senator King and Senate both belong to the Climate Solutions Caucus.
To support these bills go HERE and click on Take Action.
June 1, 2020 A statement from Citizens' Climate Lobby's Executive Director Mark Reynolds:
Citizens’ Climate Lobby supports racial justice and those who fight for it. Our staff, volunteers and supporters are deeply saddened and angered by the most recent incidents of racist violence in America: Ahmaud Arbery’s murder while out for a jog in his Georgia neighborhood, the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor in her Kentucky home, the threat of police violence against Christian Cooper in Central Park, and George Floyd’s murder in Minnesota. We denounce these incidents themselves, as well as the chronic injustice that plagues America and harms communities of color every single day. CCL’s mission is to build the political will for a livable world, but it’s clear that for so many people of color, America is a far cry from livable.
To our CCL volunteers who are Black and people of color: I know climate change is probably the furthest thing from your mind right now. That’s completely understandable, and it’s completely okay. I want you to know that you—your whole self—are welcome in CCL. That means we know and respect that you’re dealing with a lot right now, including structural barriers to your safety and wellbeing. Things shouldn’t be this way, and I’m so sorry that they are.
I also know that sorry isn’t enough. It’s not enough simply to list diversity as one of our values. The best way we can proclaim that Black lives matter to CCL, and that we care deeply about your wellbeing and your safety and your happiness, is for us to take concrete action. So we’re taking this moment to educate the predominantly white members of our organization about recent events and what they can do to help. We are making plans to offer additional training to our volunteers on racism, privilege, bias, diversity in the environmental movement, and more, including in a special seminar at our upcoming virtual conference.
We will continue to look for ways to do more, and to do better. Like climate change, there is no simple fix for racism—but we will not shy away from doing our part in this vital work.
We also support and advocate for nature-based solutions and electrification, though between now and November we are focusing on encouraging Americans to vote on climate.
Find out more at CitizensClimateLobby.org
under the 'About' and 'Our Climate Solution' top menu buttons. If you would like to help, tell congress you want climate action now. If you would like to do even more, click the 'Join CCL' button at the top of any of those pages. After you sign up, someone from your local chapter will contact you.
We are supporting the Energy Innovation and Carbon Fee and Dividend Act (HR 2307), which was reintroduced in the House April 1, 2021 by Rep. Ted Deutsch with 28 co-sponsors, one of whom is Representative Chellie Pingree (D-ME-01), who was one of the co-sponsors of the 2020 bill. As of March 30, 2022 there were 96 co-sponsors and more will be coming on board.
There are now a number of carbon fee and dividend bills in Congress, and we fully expect that a Senate companion bill to H.R. 2307 will also be reintroduced this session. The momentum is rising!
Senator King and Senate both belong to the Climate Solutions Caucus.
To support these bills go HERE and click on Take Action.
June 1, 2020 A statement from Citizens' Climate Lobby's Executive Director Mark Reynolds:
Citizens’ Climate Lobby supports racial justice and those who fight for it. Our staff, volunteers and supporters are deeply saddened and angered by the most recent incidents of racist violence in America: Ahmaud Arbery’s murder while out for a jog in his Georgia neighborhood, the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor in her Kentucky home, the threat of police violence against Christian Cooper in Central Park, and George Floyd’s murder in Minnesota. We denounce these incidents themselves, as well as the chronic injustice that plagues America and harms communities of color every single day. CCL’s mission is to build the political will for a livable world, but it’s clear that for so many people of color, America is a far cry from livable.
To our CCL volunteers who are Black and people of color: I know climate change is probably the furthest thing from your mind right now. That’s completely understandable, and it’s completely okay. I want you to know that you—your whole self—are welcome in CCL. That means we know and respect that you’re dealing with a lot right now, including structural barriers to your safety and wellbeing. Things shouldn’t be this way, and I’m so sorry that they are.
I also know that sorry isn’t enough. It’s not enough simply to list diversity as one of our values. The best way we can proclaim that Black lives matter to CCL, and that we care deeply about your wellbeing and your safety and your happiness, is for us to take concrete action. So we’re taking this moment to educate the predominantly white members of our organization about recent events and what they can do to help. We are making plans to offer additional training to our volunteers on racism, privilege, bias, diversity in the environmental movement, and more, including in a special seminar at our upcoming virtual conference.
We will continue to look for ways to do more, and to do better. Like climate change, there is no simple fix for racism—but we will not shy away from doing our part in this vital work.
Who We Are
We are students, professionals, parents, retirees and others who are volunteers of Citizens Climate Lobby in Maine. Maine residents have a lot to gain from a stable climate: a good ski season, healthy fishing and logging industries, brilliant fall foliage, stable water supply and coastline, and livable summers. We also have a lot to gain from switching our energy source from fossil fuels to clean energy alternatives: keeping more of what we spend on energy in state, stabilizing energy prices, and creation of local clean energy manufacturing, installation, repair, and energy efficiency jobs.
Citizens Climate Lobby is made up of over 90,000 volunteers working in more than 450 chapters. CCL Maine has eleven chapters which are helping build the political will to enable CCL's goal to protect our climate by enacting federal Carbon Fee and Dividend legislation in 2018. Major accomplishments include resolutions passed by the cities of Portland and Bangor supporting carbon fee and dividend legislation.