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Join us April 6 and 7 for the NorCal Conference in Atherton
More info here
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Spring is in the air! Have some fun at April Earth Day Events
East Bay, Mill Valley and West Marin
Saturday and Sunday, April 20 and 21
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Saturday, April 20
Join CCL Alameda at the David Brower Center for the
Berkeley Home Electrification Fair 2-5 PM
The benefits of switching from gas to electric are enormous – long-term savings, healthier indoor air, and cutting your climate footprint. And with new government rebates and tax credits, 2024 promises to be a great year to go electric!
The 2024 Home Electrification Fair is your one-stop shop for answers to questions like:
- Where do I start? Heat pump? Water heater? Induction cooktop?
- What tax credits and rebates can I receive?
- Is my 100 amp electric panel sufficient?
- Who can I trust? Are there recommended contractors?
- My house is unusual. Can it be electrified?
You can talk with electrification professionals, residents who have gone all-electric and representatives of nonprofits and government agencies savvy about incentives for home electrification. For more information go to www.tinyurl.com/electrifyberk
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Saturday, April 20, 12-3
San Geronimo Valley Community Center
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From Marin CCL
Carbon Pricing: Why We Need It, How It's Working, and How to Build Support
by Jonathan Marshall
Former economics editor at the S.F. Chronicle and CCL economics policy coordinator Jonathan Marshall has compiled his numerous essays into this handy, readable collection. Whether you're a seasoned lobbyist or just getting started, this concise reference addresses all the issues in its title while addressing persistent myths. Download it here.
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Meeting climate goals through tax reform
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The tax code, where much of U.S. climate policy is implemented, will likely be the subject of intense policy debate in 2025. Listen to CCL ally Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Senate Budget Committee Chair, describe the need for effective carbon pricing in reducing GHG emissions. "Without carbon pricing, we don't make it...One of the cool things about it is that you can start quite small...and frankly, it ain't that complicated"
Watch 30 minutes of informative and lively discussion here.
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Wonks: Here's the study being discussed at the Brookings event above:
Climate tax policy reform options in 2025
Authored by 5 experts from: the Electric Power Research Institute, UCLA School of Law, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Harvard and MIT
With the expiration of many tax cuts and unmet climate targets, 2025 could be a crucial year for climate policy in the United States...The model shows: The emissions reductions of the Inflation Reduction Act are significantly augmented under scenarios that add a modest carbon fee...fiscal costs can be substantially reduced in scenarios that include a carbon fee...the carbon fee and clean electricity standard scenarios achieve our goals between 2030 and 2035.
Read on, then do whatever you can to insure we have a climate friendly government in 2025!
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A Trump win could add 4bn tons to US emissions by 2030 | |
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“This extra 4bn tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e) by 2030 would cause global climate damages worth more than $900bn, based on the latest US government valuations…4GtCO2e is equivalent to the combined annual emissions of the EU and Japan, or the combined annual total of the world’s 140 lowest-emitting countries. Put another way, the extra 4GtCO2e from a second Trump term would negate – twice over – all of the savings from deploying wind, solar and other clean technologies around the world over the past five years.”
Read it here (then get to work.)
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The ’90s are over: 5 reasons to embrace carbon pricing today
The Hill
"Trends from the 1990s have made a resurgence in today’s fashion and pop culture. But one unfortunate development from the 1990s stayed with us all along; that of politicians fearing they’ll be “BTUed,” a play on President Bill Clinton’s proposed 1993 “BTU tax,” which was a close cousin to a price on carbon emissions.
Democrats in the House voted — some reluctantly — for the tax, which the Senate soundly defeated. Many House Democrats who lost their seat in the 1994 midterms blamed it on their vote for the BTU tax. This political lesson still resonates; just last week 10 Democrats vulnerable to losing seats in November chose to join Republicans in voting “no” on a carbon tax measure.
2025 will be a big year for Congress to tackle longstanding fiscal issues and further climate policy efforts. Before this can happen, politicians need to hear timely arguments backed by up-to-date evidence to stifle any fear of being “BTUed” in the present."
Find out what those reasons are here.
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Activate Your Community Network with a CCL talk! | |
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We're available for speaking opportunities in our community. Can you help spread the word?
Our chapter is fortunate to include several accomplished climate educators who are ready to engage your network with a customized presentation (at no cost.)
If you have contacts at local schools, universities, community clubs (service, social, hobby, professional), faith communities, town councils, local government agencies and the like, please contact us at marincclchapter@gmail.com.
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Here's another path to activism in this election cycle: get involved with the nonpartisan EVP, whose mission is to get environmental voters to actually vote. "We identify inactive environmentalists and transform them into consistent voters to build the power of the environmental movement." Do it here.
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Do Not Miss This Series!
If you've already seen it, watch it again. You'll then understand how we got into this mess and what it will take to get us out: Massive political will for robust solutions that the industry will inevitably oppose.
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Home Sweet Home: The Pale Blue Dot photo
Earth on February 14, 1990, taken by Voyager 1 from 4 billion miles away. Earth is less than a pixel, a tiny dot against the vastness of space, among bands of sunlight reflected by the camera. We'd better take good care of it.
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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.
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Prepared by Peter G. Joseph, M.D.
Peter.Joseph@cclvolunteer.org
Apologies for cross postings.
If you know someone who would like to be added to this distribution list, please suggest they join CCL.
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