CCL Alameda County
@cclalameda.bsky.social
Alameda County chapter, Citizens Climate Lobby.
We're for:
🌎Carbon pricing
💡Building electrification
⚡Energy permitting reform
🌳Healthy forests
#Climate #Justice #FossilFree
We're for:
🌎Carbon pricing
💡Building electrification
⚡Energy permitting reform
🌳Healthy forests
#Climate #Justice #FossilFree
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Special thanks to the offices of @replsimon.bsky.social and @repgaramendi.bsky.social for meeting with us this Lobby Day🙏🙏🙏!
Our team members had a great time talking to our MOC's about energy policy and the need for climate justice in our communities.
Read more ⤵️⤵️⤵️
cclalameda.org/lobby-day-20...
Our team members had a great time talking to our MOC's about energy policy and the need for climate justice in our communities.
Read more ⤵️⤵️⤵️
cclalameda.org/lobby-day-20...
See, that's the case for #permittingreform -- we can build new, more efficient power plants so that these expensive old ones can be retired.
via @canarymedia.com
via @canarymedia.com
Trump admin orders Washington state coal plant to stay running
TransAlta’s Centralia power plant was meant to close at month’s end and be converted to burn gas by 2028. DOE’s must-run order complicates that plan.
www.canarymedia.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM
See, that's the case for #permittingreform -- we can build new, more efficient power plants so that these expensive old ones can be retired.
via @canarymedia.com
via @canarymedia.com
Lobbying works! That's why we've built a lobbying platform to help *you*, the #citizens, move forward on #climate 🤓!
@cclusa.org's Climate Education helps real people navigate the system *just* as well as corporations.
We're close to our year-end funding goal. Can you help?
cclusa.org/donate ⬇️⬇️⬇️
@cclusa.org's Climate Education helps real people navigate the system *just* as well as corporations.
We're close to our year-end funding goal. Can you help?
cclusa.org/donate ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Corporations have lobbyists. Earth should too. | Citizens’ Climate Lobby
Corporations spend millions on lobbying every year for one simple reason: lobbying works. Citizens’ Climate trains and supports a nonpartisan lobbying team for the climate. Help us keep citizens in th...
cclusa.org
December 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Lobbying works! That's why we've built a lobbying platform to help *you*, the #citizens, move forward on #climate 🤓!
@cclusa.org's Climate Education helps real people navigate the system *just* as well as corporations.
We're close to our year-end funding goal. Can you help?
cclusa.org/donate ⬇️⬇️⬇️
@cclusa.org's Climate Education helps real people navigate the system *just* as well as corporations.
We're close to our year-end funding goal. Can you help?
cclusa.org/donate ⬇️⬇️⬇️
⚡💡 #climatewins In California, $115 million set aside for plug-and-play high-efficiency #electrical appliances.
If you're interested in electrifying but can't afford a massive home rewiring, consider these!
If you're interested in electrifying but can't afford a massive home rewiring, consider these!
California’s plan to boost plug-in heat pumps and induction stoves
Regulators greenlit a $115 million, first-of-its-kind effort to drive demand for tech that can make home electrification easier and cheaper.
www.canarymedia.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
⚡💡 #climatewins In California, $115 million set aside for plug-and-play high-efficiency #electrical appliances.
If you're interested in electrifying but can't afford a massive home rewiring, consider these!
If you're interested in electrifying but can't afford a massive home rewiring, consider these!
Curious to know how we did this year? Check out cclusa.org/2025 for your personalized achievement report!
2025 Year End Wrapped - CCL Community
Here's your 2025 CCL Summary! See what we’ve accomplished together this year!
cclusa.org
December 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Curious to know how we did this year? Check out cclusa.org/2025 for your personalized achievement report!
California needs to step up its game on permitting reform, clean energy and this⤵️⤵️
#HealthyForests 🌳
#ClimateJustice
#FossilFuelPhaseOut
#HealthyForests 🌳
#ClimateJustice
#FossilFuelPhaseOut
Green California’s Big Oil Problem - Inside Climate News
While Gov. Newsom touted the state’s environmental efforts at the UN climate summit, toxic spills and a new law speeding drilling tarnished its reputation at home.
insideclimatenews.org
December 16, 2025 at 1:21 AM
California needs to step up its game on permitting reform, clean energy and this⤵️⤵️
#HealthyForests 🌳
#ClimateJustice
#FossilFuelPhaseOut
#HealthyForests 🌳
#ClimateJustice
#FossilFuelPhaseOut
“We are committed to streamlining the permitting process — but only if it ensures we can build out transmission and cheap, clean energy ... the SPEED Act does not meet that standard.”
How frustrating 😂.
#PermittingReform was supposed to be a #bipartisan thing 😂.
How frustrating 😂.
#PermittingReform was supposed to be a #bipartisan thing 😂.
Permitting talks are back, and clean energy is caught in the middle
Congress is taking another stab at energy-permitting reform, but legislation that doesn’t prioritize renewables and transmission is unlikely to go…
www.canarymedia.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
“We are committed to streamlining the permitting process — but only if it ensures we can build out transmission and cheap, clean energy ... the SPEED Act does not meet that standard.”
How frustrating 😂.
#PermittingReform was supposed to be a #bipartisan thing 😂.
How frustrating 😂.
#PermittingReform was supposed to be a #bipartisan thing 😂.
CCL supports #CleanEnergy infrastructure. To solve the #climatecrisis.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/nuc...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/nuc...
Trump admin invests $800M in latest move to bolster US nuclear…
Two designs each get $400 million to prove that smaller, cheaper reactors can work, but the funds will cover only a fraction of the development costs.
www.canarymedia.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
CCL supports #CleanEnergy infrastructure. To solve the #climatecrisis.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/nuc...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/nuc...
🌩️🌧️🌀"[T]he work that allows lobstermen to empty their traps, cargo ships to safely reach port, and coastal communities to get accurate flood warnings depends on steady funding."💸
#NOAAFunding #ClimateScience
#NOAAFunding #ClimateScience
As NOAA Funding Lags, a Critical Ocean Weather System Nears a Breaking Point - Inside Climate News
Officials warn that if regional Integrated Ocean Observing System readings go dark, coastal forecasts will become less precise, endangering commercial fishermen, cargo ships and coastal communities.
insideclimatenews.org
December 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
🌩️🌧️🌀"[T]he work that allows lobstermen to empty their traps, cargo ships to safely reach port, and coastal communities to get accurate flood warnings depends on steady funding."💸
#NOAAFunding #ClimateScience
#NOAAFunding #ClimateScience
Both parties support funding #geothermal. Here's a chart of where we stand in the world 🌎.
#CleanEnergy #Infrastructure
#CleanEnergy #Infrastructure
Chart: Geothermal energy is attracting more and more investment
There’s a wave of renewed interest in the energy source, which could help the world keep pace with rising electricity demand and decarbonization targets.
www.canarymedia.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Both parties support funding #geothermal. Here's a chart of where we stand in the world 🌎.
#CleanEnergy #Infrastructure
#CleanEnergy #Infrastructure
🥳🎉This is our greatest accomplishment of the year! The bipartisan Fix Our Forests Act protects communities from wildfires and creates jobs in rural areas 🌳🌱.
#HealthyForests
Read on for more ⬇️⬇️
#HealthyForests
Read on for more ⬇️⬇️
Our Fix Our Forests advocacy in 2025
As the Fix Our Forests Act awaits a floor vote in the Senate, let’s take a look back at our 2025 advocacy efforts to advance this bill.
citizensclimatelobby.org
December 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
🥳🎉This is our greatest accomplishment of the year! The bipartisan Fix Our Forests Act protects communities from wildfires and creates jobs in rural areas 🌳🌱.
#HealthyForests
Read on for more ⬇️⬇️
#HealthyForests
Read on for more ⬇️⬇️
🙏Thank everyone for making this an action-packed, great year! Our climate future is more secure thanks to the small actions of many people. Thank you.
To make a tax-deductible donation to Citizens' Climate Lobby, please visit cclusa.org/donate/.
Help us reach our year-end funding goal💸!
#climate
To make a tax-deductible donation to Citizens' Climate Lobby, please visit cclusa.org/donate/.
Help us reach our year-end funding goal💸!
#climate
Corporations have lobbyists. Earth should too. | Citizens’ Climate Lobby
Corporations spend millions on lobbying every year for one simple reason: lobbying works. Citizens’ Climate trains and supports a nonpartisan lobbying team for the climate. Help us keep citizens in th...
citizensclimatelobby.org
December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
🙏Thank everyone for making this an action-packed, great year! Our climate future is more secure thanks to the small actions of many people. Thank you.
To make a tax-deductible donation to Citizens' Climate Lobby, please visit cclusa.org/donate/.
Help us reach our year-end funding goal💸!
#climate
To make a tax-deductible donation to Citizens' Climate Lobby, please visit cclusa.org/donate/.
Help us reach our year-end funding goal💸!
#climate
💸💸💸 #ClimateNews The new policies look only at the price of a *new* car -- not how much it wastes on ever-inflating gas prices⛽.
We don't know how much this pumps up the lifetime cost of a car 🚗.
But it's way more than the $1,000 they say we will save upfront.
#EnergyEfficiency #Cars #Travel
We don't know how much this pumps up the lifetime cost of a car 🚗.
But it's way more than the $1,000 they say we will save upfront.
#EnergyEfficiency #Cars #Travel
Trump proposal would weaken vehicle mileage rules that limit air pollution
President Donald Trump has announced a proposal to weaken vehicle mileage rules for the auto industry.
apnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
💸💸💸 #ClimateNews The new policies look only at the price of a *new* car -- not how much it wastes on ever-inflating gas prices⛽.
We don't know how much this pumps up the lifetime cost of a car 🚗.
But it's way more than the $1,000 they say we will save upfront.
#EnergyEfficiency #Cars #Travel
We don't know how much this pumps up the lifetime cost of a car 🚗.
But it's way more than the $1,000 they say we will save upfront.
#EnergyEfficiency #Cars #Travel
What would you say about wood 🪵 skyscrapers? Seems to help #CarbonEmissions and #BuildingEfficiency. But at the possible expense of the forests🌳🌲?
#HealthyForests
via @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#HealthyForests
via @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Wooden skyscrapers point the way to more sustainable cities
Buildings made of wood store carbon, instead of adding it to the atmosphere.
www.nature.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
What would you say about wood 🪵 skyscrapers? Seems to help #CarbonEmissions and #BuildingEfficiency. But at the possible expense of the forests🌳🌲?
#HealthyForests
via @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#HealthyForests
via @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
♨️🏔️ #SaturdayReads Seems geothermal is making a comeback. Here, an #electrical #infrastructure project pops up in Nevada. 🏭⚡
www.canarymedia.com/articles/geo...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/geo...
Zanskar claims major geothermal discovery in Nevada
The firm says it has found an unknown, untapped geothermal resource that is viable using conventional drilling — a first in the U.S. in more than 30 years.
www.canarymedia.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:21 AM
♨️🏔️ #SaturdayReads Seems geothermal is making a comeback. Here, an #electrical #infrastructure project pops up in Nevada. 🏭⚡
www.canarymedia.com/articles/geo...
www.canarymedia.com/articles/geo...
#ClimateGoodNews Here's an opportunity for anyone interested in energy and the climate!
... Or, I guess, was🤔.
#CleanEnergy #Infrastructure
... Or, I guess, was🤔.
#CleanEnergy #Infrastructure
The grid storage industry set a wild goal for 2025 — and then crushed…
In 2017, U.S. grid storage developers promised they could deliver 35 gigawatts by 2025. They beat their target and made batteries a key power-sector…
www.canarymedia.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:10 AM
#ClimateGoodNews Here's an opportunity for anyone interested in energy and the climate!
... Or, I guess, was🤔.
#CleanEnergy #Infrastructure
... Or, I guess, was🤔.
#CleanEnergy #Infrastructure
🌳🤝🌎 #ClimateGoodNews We've surpassed our #GivingTuesday funding goal!
Thank you. Your gifts allow us to hold more than 1,000 meetings with Congress *every year*!🙏
Read on for more⬇️⬇️⬇️
tinyurl.com/CCLsFunGoal
Thank you. Your gifts allow us to hold more than 1,000 meetings with Congress *every year*!🙏
Read on for more⬇️⬇️⬇️
tinyurl.com/CCLsFunGoal
December 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
🌳🤝🌎 #ClimateGoodNews We've surpassed our #GivingTuesday funding goal!
Thank you. Your gifts allow us to hold more than 1,000 meetings with Congress *every year*!🙏
Read on for more⬇️⬇️⬇️
tinyurl.com/CCLsFunGoal
Thank you. Your gifts allow us to hold more than 1,000 meetings with Congress *every year*!🙏
Read on for more⬇️⬇️⬇️
tinyurl.com/CCLsFunGoal
🌊🏝️🌎For the intellectually curious, here's how bad it could be in 2100.
#SeaLevelRise #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice
14 min. 📽️.
#SeaLevelRise #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice
14 min. 📽️.
You’re Not Worried Enough About Sea Level Rise
YouTube video by PBS Terra
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
🌊🏝️🌎For the intellectually curious, here's how bad it could be in 2100.
#SeaLevelRise #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice
14 min. 📽️.
#SeaLevelRise #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice
14 min. 📽️.
Thank you🙏to all the members of Congress who called out the Trump Administration for his attacks on energy workers⚡!
@cclusa.org supports #workerrights, #climateequity and the #energytransiton.
@repgaramendi.bsky.social @replsimon.bsky.social @repmarkdesaulnier.bsky.social @rephuffman.bsky.social
@cclusa.org supports #workerrights, #climateequity and the #energytransiton.
@repgaramendi.bsky.social @replsimon.bsky.social @repmarkdesaulnier.bsky.social @rephuffman.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Thank you🙏to all the members of Congress who called out the Trump Administration for his attacks on energy workers⚡!
@cclusa.org supports #workerrights, #climateequity and the #energytransiton.
@repgaramendi.bsky.social @replsimon.bsky.social @repmarkdesaulnier.bsky.social @rephuffman.bsky.social
@cclusa.org supports #workerrights, #climateequity and the #energytransiton.
@repgaramendi.bsky.social @replsimon.bsky.social @repmarkdesaulnier.bsky.social @rephuffman.bsky.social
Here's another thing we need boots on the ground for 🥾🥾.
If you feel like there's nothing you can do, you're wrong! We have all kinds of activities to keep people informed. 🧵
If you feel like there's nothing you can do, you're wrong! We have all kinds of activities to keep people informed. 🧵
Combating Climate Disinformation: Three Hopeful Signs as We Head into COP30
The US government’s move to enact the fossil fuel industry’s agenda by basing climate and energy policy on official disinformation could cause us to despair. As my colleague Carlos Martinez recently w...
blog.ucs.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Here's another thing we need boots on the ground for 🥾🥾.
If you feel like there's nothing you can do, you're wrong! We have all kinds of activities to keep people informed. 🧵
If you feel like there's nothing you can do, you're wrong! We have all kinds of activities to keep people informed. 🧵
How frustrating— @cclusa.org supports carbon pricing, and we were hoping to set up a maritime #carbontariff as an intermediate step.
Sadly, the current administration's generally pro-tariff stance didn't apply to us 🥺.
#CarbonFeeAndDividend
Sadly, the current administration's generally pro-tariff stance didn't apply to us 🥺.
#CarbonFeeAndDividend
Disappointment as US Blocks Decision on Shipping Carbon Price
Under intense lobbying, pressure and threats from US officials, delegates to the IMO last month delayed the shipping carbon price by a year.
earth.org
November 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
How frustrating— @cclusa.org supports carbon pricing, and we were hoping to set up a maritime #carbontariff as an intermediate step.
Sadly, the current administration's generally pro-tariff stance didn't apply to us 🥺.
#CarbonFeeAndDividend
Sadly, the current administration's generally pro-tariff stance didn't apply to us 🥺.
#CarbonFeeAndDividend
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Osmotic power FTW 🥊
Amazing what advances you get, when smart people start looking for solutions to old problems
www.economist.com/science-and-...
Amazing what advances you get, when smart people start looking for solutions to old problems
www.economist.com/science-and-...
November 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Osmotic power FTW 🥊
Amazing what advances you get, when smart people start looking for solutions to old problems
www.economist.com/science-and-...
Amazing what advances you get, when smart people start looking for solutions to old problems
www.economist.com/science-and-...
🌱🌎 #ClimateNews: This comes at the end of a fraught #COP30. We can still make progress, however. Belem was the first COP to address misinformation and false advertising in the climate space. This creates opportunities to hold polluters accountable!
UN Report Confirms Planetary Warming Will Breach 1.5 Degrees Celsius, Richer Nations Primarily to Blame
UN Emissions Gap Report confirms global warming beyond 1.5 C climate goal, richer nations primarily to blame
www.ucs.org
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
🌱🌎 #ClimateNews: This comes at the end of a fraught #COP30. We can still make progress, however. Belem was the first COP to address misinformation and false advertising in the climate space. This creates opportunities to hold polluters accountable!
🌻🍃Clean energy sources have managed to keep pace with the AI boom. But just barely.
#Electrical #Infrastructure
#CleanEnergy
#Electrical #Infrastructure
#CleanEnergy
Chart: Solar and wind are meeting — and exceeding — new power demand
Through September, the two clean-energy sources outpaced growth in power demand. That trend needs to accelerate for the world to phase out fossil fuels.
www.canarymedia.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
🌻🍃Clean energy sources have managed to keep pace with the AI boom. But just barely.
#Electrical #Infrastructure
#CleanEnergy
#Electrical #Infrastructure
#CleanEnergy