>>If you say one thing today – Senate Republicans are letting Trump provoke fear in the American people in his push for dangerous border wall, instead of working to reopen the government, put federal employees back to work, and protect kids' health and the outdoors.

>>If you do one thing today – Tweet: NEWSFLASH: The scene on our public lands and national parks is a national emergency--one entirely caused by the reckless behavior of @RealDonaldTrump. Families, children, our national parks, and vulnerable border communities deserve better! #TrumpShutdown

(full social guidance to respond to Trump’s address)

On the Horizon…

January 10 TOMORROW: LWCF Day of Action

January 23 DELAYED: EPA listening session on WOTUS in Kansas City, KS

January 29: State of the Union

January 30: New Source Coal Performance Standards public hearing in DC

Letters

• Sign onto this CEO letter of thanks to Senators Stabenow and Roberts for their bipartisan work on the farm bill
  • Deadline: COB TOMORROW 1/10
• Sign onto this organization and community leader sign on letter addressed to Speaker Pelosi to encourage Democratic leadership in the House to prioritize action on climate
  • Deadline: COB Friday 1/11

Help Needed

• Use this social guidance to amplify a Vox article on Arctic drilling going forward despite the shutdown
• House Dems and House Natural Resources released a series of bills yesterday to protect our coasts from the threat of offshore drilling (social media toolkit here to elevate)
• Use this #PeopleOverPolluters toolkit to elevate and push back on the worst rollbacks around toxins
• Mercury Rule
  • This proposal takes the first steps in rolling back these lifesaving reductions in dangerous mercury, soot, and other toxic air pollutants released from coal- and oil-burning power plants
  • Still waiting on a Federal Register release to kick off a 60 day comment period and announcement of a public hearing
  • MCAF is hosting a reporter-only telepresser on the mercury rule TODAY at 2:30pm ET featuring Senator Carper
  • Use CAC resources to push back including this toolkit and this #ClimateFriday guidance
• DOI
  • Continuing messaging and preparing while we wait for the nomination using these resources:
    • Set the stage for nominee announcement using guidance here.
    • CWP backgrounders on Bernhardt, Laxalt, Heller, Denham, Bishop, Labrador, and Walker
    • Medium article on Bernhardt conflicts and policy actions
    • Tracker of Bernhardt’s conflicts of interest and policy actions
    • Bernhardt background, guide to conflicts, and unanswered questions

• Use this toolkit to message on the Dirty Water Rule
• Atlantic Seismic Airgun Blasting

• Before the boats can go into the water, they need a second permit in BOEM - likely to come in early January
• Resources
  • Use this guidance to amplify bipartisan opposition to this announcement
  • NRDC social guidance
  • Oceana toolkit
• >>Respond
  • Share these Facebook and Twitter videos on litigation announcement (toolkit here)
  • Pressure Republican senators to come out against this and increase noise from governors (Oceana toolkit)
• Sage Grouse
  • Continue to push back on the sage grouse FEIS out of DOI using this toolkit
    • Accountability social
• Message on LWCF using this Lame Duck toolkit
  • Sample social
  • Talking points
  • Sign up here to do member outreach

Dirty Budget

• After Trump’s address to the nation last night, we must raise awareness of the border wall fight and impacts of the #TrumpShutdown
• Trump is the one precipitating a national emergency: our precious national parks are getting trashed, and communities are being poisoned as Superfund cleanup has ground to a halt. Now is the time for Congress to stand against the #TrumpShutdown and open the government now
• Our community must stand in solidarity with immigrant communities today, especially those seeking protection under DACA
• In conversations with Congressional offices, please encourage them to stand strong on border wall funding without bending on DACA
• Use this fact sheet to message on effective border spending
• >>Push back

• Keep pressure up on these top Senate targets (toolkit here):
  • Gardner (CO)
  • Ernst (IA)
  • Tillis (NC)
  • Collins (ME)
  • McSally (AZ)
  • Daines (MT)
  • Murkowski (AK)
  • Capito (WV)
• If you have any good materials on state specific impact, please flag them for us
• Three levels to plug in:
  • Level 1: Post on social media
  • Level 2: Pitch press on stories, LTEs, op-eds
  • Level 3: Plan visibility events around district offices, especially Iowa and North Carolina
• Resources
  • Respond to Trump’s Address
  • Targeted social guidance
  • Main messaging document and main tracking document for the impact and stories on the Trump shutdown. 
  • 1/2 Social to support House Dems’ plan to reopen the government
  • Social media images on the shutdown
  • Updates on Closed National Parks
  • #ShutdownStories

Topic	Agency	Status	Deadline	Comment Guidance	Hearing
Coal NSPS	EPA	Open	2/19		1/30 in Washington DC
WOTUS Proposal (Dirty Water Rule)	EPA	Not Yet			Listening Session 1/23 in Kansas City, KS (delayed due to shutdown)
DOE emergency authority	DOE	Open	N/A