There are 3 legislative days between now and the Jan 19 funding deadline. 


>> If you say one thing today: As a government shutdown looms, Republicans in Congress have just one day to pass a budget free of harmful policies that would jeopardize our families’ health and damage the environment just to boost profits for billionaires and corporate polluters.


>> If you only do one thing today:  Participate in the #DirtyBudget social media day of action: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hoYUC00Qmael0jmJIFXLbnT-Xazzsku-Mc0hwYrVjs4/edit


>> Help needed:
Letters:
  • Sign on to letter opposing FEMA ESA rider in the supplemental by COB TODAY here. 
  • Please click here to sign on to this letter in support of the American Prairie Conservation Act. Deadline:Thursday, January 18th @ noon
  • Sign on to letter on attacks on clean water safeguards, including the Clean Water Rule rider, in the FY18 budget negotiations. You can view the letter and sign on here before January 23 at noon. 
  • EXTENDED: Please sign NGO letter to Congress - Oppose Efforts to Gut Safeguards Protecting Imperiled Species from Pesticides. Please use this form to sign on your organization by COB Friday. 
  • Sign the letter asking BOEM to extend the comment period for offshore driling by noon on Friday.
  • Sign monuments joint letters opposing these bills if you haven’t already (for markup/floor if needed)
      Outreach/Advocacy:   
  • Help elevate attacks on public lands and pushback on administrations "energy dominance" theme in the lead up to and during the Energy subcommittee of House Natural Resources hearing on "Examining the Department of Interior's Actions to Eliminate Onshore Energy Burdens" tomorrow at 2PM.
  • To plug into DACA actions email amandaaguirre@greenlatinos.org
  • Join CAC Pruitt at EPW planning call on Monday at 930am
  • To plug into CPP hearing planning email smason@cacampaign.org 
  • OCS Drumbeat Materials 
    •  toolkit for the 5 Year Plan comment drive 
      • OCS Coalition looking for additional partners to help drive comments in states!! 
    • Florida response messaging can be found here. 
    • A full list of the sessions, events, and coalition point people for Offshore is available here
    • >> If you are interested in participating in an event please contact the event point person directly.  Sessions highlighted in yellow do not yet have events planned around them.  If you can volunteer to help organize one, please contact Holly Parker with the Surfrider Foundation (hparker@surfrider.org).
    • A social kit is available here.  Please note our common hashtag is #protectourcoast.
    • General messaging doc can be found here. 
  • Promote the storytellers on Ourenvironment.org who are advocating against harmful cuts to the EPA budget using this toolkit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19UJlY-zYfESXrCS5U6zKYPndGujLjRo_rspc3quVW2M/edit
  • Continue to drive opposition to Congressional attacks on national monuments and the Antiquities Act (in particular HR 3990, HR 4558, and HR 4532).  Our main ask is to send an action alert to organizational members to encourage them to contact congress to oppose these attacks.  Materials to help with that are below.
Comments
  • 60 day comment period opening on Bears Ears and Grand Stair Case Escalate rollbacks 
  • CAC -- aAdvance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) has been published in the federal register opening a comment period seeking industry and public input on how to replace the Clean Power Plan (closing Monday, February 26). Digital guidance including sample comment, landing page, and social language can be found on the Materials Hub HERE.
  • Please send state-by-state numbers for all comment periods to LBentzen@partnershipproject.org

On the Horizon…  

Confirmed dates 
  • Jan 15-Feb 26: Local offshore five year plan meetings
  • Jan 18: DACA digital days of action 
  • Jan 18: Senate Commerce committee vote on Myers for NOAA and Bridenstine for NASA
  • Jan 18: The Energy subcommittee of House Natural Resources hearing on "Examining the Department of Interior's Actions to Eliminate Onshore Energy Burdens"
  • Jan 18: Environment subcommittee of Energy & Commerce hearing on "Modernizing the Superfund Cleanup Program." 
  • Jan 19: Energy subcommittee of Natural Resources hearing on "Deficiencies in the Permitting Process for Offshore Seismic Research."
  • Jan 19: Sequestration & government funding deadline 
  • Jan 30: SOTU
  • Jan 30: Pruitt at EPW 
  • Feb 21: CPP hearing in Kansas City,MO
  • Feb 28: CPP hearing in San Francisco
  • March 27: CPP hearing in Gillette, WY
  • April 30: EPA Ozone designations 

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Daily Call Notes

Intel
  • Pruitt is traveling to Japan next week 
  • Look for guidance from CAC on several Pruitt stories including WSJ, Vice and CBS News
  • OCS events are outperforming expectations -- see resources above to plug in! 
  • Superfund hearing today is a good moment to highlight Pruitt's lipservice to Superfund cleanup ahead of EPW hearing 
  • Nelson is holding up DOI noms until he gets more answers from Zinke on offshore 

Government Funding 
  • Latest Intel:
    • House released CR proposal
      • Extends funding to Feb 16 
      • Free of enviro riders -- reference language to funds for IG office of DOE. Some language on NASA. 
      • 6 year reauth of CHIP 
      • Repeals several Obamacare tax provisions 
    • Reaction:
      • It looks House Rs do have the votes 
      • Senator Graham opposing package 
      • House Rules committee will allow bills to be fast tracked to the floor 
    • Takeaways:
      • The government could shutdown over the weekend 
      • We need to push for parity and no riders 
  • This week is critical: 
    • Support Dreamers 
      • Thousands of Dreamers are coming to DC to put pressure on Congress 
      • Social media days of action today and tomorrow 
      • Email Amanda at Green Latinos to get on the Green Dreamers listserve 
    • Important to push back riders 
      • Express gratitude for no riders in this CR 
      • Support Senator Udall's comments against riders using guidance here. 
      • Publish opeds and blogs on riders. 
      • Engage grasstops and CEOs against riders (GOAL: 5 grasstops calls a week) 
    • Parity
      • It's important to keep the pressure on our champs to advocate for parity and strong funding for environmental programs once a caps deal is made 
      • Important to keep moderates unified against cuts and riders
  >> Let CDP know if you are working on outreach or field activities 

Open Comment Periods
Topic Agency Status Deadline
National Climate Assessment Volume 2
U.S. Global Change Research Program Open 1/31
Offshore drilling safety rules DOI Open 1/29
Clean Power Plan EPA Open 4/26
Clean Power Plan Proposed Rule Making EPA Open 2/26
Proposed NEPA Rulemaking Forest Service Open 2/2
Offshore 5-year plan proposal Interior Open 3/8
Bears Ears Reductions BLM Open 3/19
Grand Staircase-Escalante Reductions BLM Open 3/19



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