**NOTE: We will discuss SOTU prep/response on the 9:05 call tomorrow. Please come to the call ready to discuss your plans!
There are 14 legislative days between now and the February 8 funding deadline.
>> If you say one thing today: A bipartisan majority of Americans are ready for Congress to get to work on a budget that prioritizes America’s health and outdoors over special interests, and creates a path forward for Dreamers without funding a destructive border wall.
>> If you only do one thing today: Set the narrative on the next round for the #dirtybudget fight and participate in the social media day of action using toolkit here:
>>Help needed:Letters:
- 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 TODAY
- Sign letter on the Healthy Fields and Farm Economics Act and importance of protecting clean water in the farm bill by COB January 26 here.
- Email Brad Johnson brad@climatehawksvote.com if you are interested in a cross-movement sign-on letter to Nye asking him to reconsider attending SOTU with Bridenstine
- Sign monuments joint letters opposing these bills if you haven’t already (for markup/floor if needed)
Outreach/Advocacy:
- Join CAC Pruitt at EPW planning calls daily through 1/30 at 930AM DIAL IN: 1-800-356-8278 Code: 938590
- 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!!
- A full list of the sessions, events, and coalition point people for Offshore is available here. (NOTE sessions were postponed this week due to shutdown)
- >> 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.
- Toolkit for action:
- Sample action alert to members and action email to Members of Congress
- Activist call script
- Other materials in the toolkit above include draft media advisories, press releases, fact sheets, social media guidance, ed. Board memos and talking points.
- Nonbranded Monumentsforall.org action tool to contact Members of Congress: http://
monumentsforall.org/tell- congress/ - Key Members of Congress to focus on are in this tracking chart. Please flag any press, grassroots or grasstops plans in these districts so we can stay coordinated.
On the Horizon…Jan 23: Energy & Natural Resources committee hearing on “the Performance of the Electric Power System Under Certain Weather Conditions.”Jan 30: SOTU
Jan 30: Pruitt at EPWFeb 8: Government funding deadline
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
Intel
- Big WOTUS decision! SCOTUS ruled that decisions on appeals and substance regarding WOTUS should be handled at the district level and the 2016 stay of the rule should be vacated. This would mean that EPA should start enforcing the but theyw ill announce final rule making soon to delay implementation.
- Social media response guidance here
- Infrastructure proposal leaked and could include public lands giveaways, dangerous rollbacks to regulations
- Expect official proposal around SOTU
- Response materials coming!
- Trump will impose tariffs on imports for solar panels
- Commerce committee changes:
- Senator Peters will join transportation subcommittee
- Baldwin will join oceans subcommittee
- Tester is joining the committee
- Dourson officially leaving unofficial position at EPA
- Oil rig explosion in OK reveals that major drilling safety concerns continue
Government Funding
- Nuts & Bolts:
- Congress past a 3 week CR until February 8 that extended CHIP for six years
- McConnell made a promise to bring an immigration bill to the floor before the deadline
- This could create room for a caps deal
- Sources say they are close on topline numbers but still lower level issues to work out
- If the CAP deal isn't announced soon there would likely be another CR on Feb 8 to give 3-4 weeks for appropriators to write the bills
- Response:
- CDP issued guidance to for CR and the next three weeks of this fight here:
- Push for immigration deal that protects Dreamers and border communities/wildlife
- Push for adequate funding for programs that protect children's health and our outdoors
- Topline: Congress must keep working to resolve the issues at hand: protecting the hundreds of thousands Dreamers without funding a destructive border wall and passing a final budget, free of harmful anti-environmental riders, that fully funds our priorities.
- Immigration
- Border wall
- Rally this Saturday at Santa Ana NWR at 11am. FB event here.
List of, and guidance for, solidarity actions to accompany our Save Santa Ana Rally this Saturday can be found here https://www.facebook.
com/savesantaana/posts/ 1611722992252764 And here on twitter: https://twitter.com/
LRGVSierraClub/status/ 955819358978297856 - Southern poverty law center TPs
- Dreamers
- Rally today at 1pm in the Upper Senate Park
- FB RSVP: https://www.facebook.
com/events/1563096727144764/? ti=icl - Budget
- Statements / pivot to next fight
- Social media day of action today!
- Continue field and earned media outreach and flag opportunities for CDP
Open Comment Periods
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