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The Marin and Sonoma chapters invite you to their monthly meeting on Saturday, October 11 at 9 AM PT here.

We'll discuss a recap of the California legislative session that dealt with electricity pricing (see below), the monthly actions, and allow plenty of time for everyone to share their observations about where we are at this critical time in our Nation's history.

Then, join the National meeting at 10 AM here.

This month's speaker is Jessica Trotman, Senior Consultant, American Flood Coalition and Deputy Town Manager for Black Mountain, NC. Given that every degree C of global warming enables a 7% increase in atmospheric moisture content and that FEMA is being hobbled, this talk will be timely.

According to the science, A hard rain's A- gonna fall...

Get ready for CCL's Next Chapter:

Fall Virtual Conference

November 14-15, 2025

Find out more here.

California’s Carbon Pricing Program Renewed and Dividend Strengthened

Congratulations to the CCL members who worked on this! On Friday 9/19, Governor Newsom signed legislation to renew California’s carbon pricing program and lower electric bills for households.

Read more here 

Feds try to dodge lawsuit against their bogus climate report

While the Trump administration has continued to refer to efforts to avoid the worst impacts of climate change as a scam, it has done almost nothing to counter the copious scientific evidence that demonstrates that climate change is real and doing real damage to the citizens of the US.

The lone exception has been a draft Department of Energy report prepared by a handful of carefully chosen fringe figures that questioned the mainstream understanding of climate change. The shoddy work and questionable conclusions of that report were so extensive that an analysis of it required over 450 pages to detail all of its shortcomings.

Read more here.

And now, our esteemed National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine have weighed in, fully supporting the climate science community:

National Academies’ climate report supports endangerment finding, contradicting EPA

Chemical and Engineering News

A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study says evidence that GHG emissions harm human health “is beyond scientific dispute”

KEY INSIGHTS

• The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a report Sept. 17 saying that evidence that greenhouse gas emissions harm humans and the environment is undisputable.
• The National Academies’ findings directly conflict with the scientific reasoning behind the US Environmental Protection Agency’s recent proposal to rescind its 2009 endangerment finding.
• The endangerment finding is the scientific basis for the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions in the US.

Here's the press release, and here's the full report. Both are worthwhile reading. And bravo to the courageous scientists and administrators who have stood up for scientific integrity. Stay tuned to see what impact this has on policy.

Watch this 5 minute video

Wall Street Journal:

US Forfeiting Future to China

Thinc blog

When we ask our AI how it all went wrong, this will be the answer: We chose 19th century technology in a 21st century world.

Do Not Miss This Series! 

We promote this every month because it's so enlightening. If you've already seen it, watch it again. You'll then understand how we got into this mess -- Denial, Doubt and Delay -- and what it will take to get us out: Massive popular political pressure supporting robust solutions that this industry and their agents will inevitably oppose.

Might an effective price on carbon emissions reflecting the real social costs of fossil fuels have sparked a transition to cleaner energy 50 years ago?

You're invited, but...

This is how one behaves inside The Capitol:

Make an appointment. Business attire recommended. Bring nothing that even looks like a weapon.

Long live democracy.

Prepared by Peter G. Joseph, M.D. 

Peter.Joseph@cclvolunteer.org

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