There are 5 legislative days between now and the February 8 funding deadline.

>> If you say one thing today: In Trump’s America, it is open season for oil and gas drilling on public lands stolen from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, with no mind to the damage that comes from selling out America’s future to greedy corporate polluters and special interests.

Tweets

NOW OPEN FOR DRILLING: Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, thanks to @realDonaldTrump’s attacks on our public lands #MonumentsForAll #StandWithBearsEars #SaveGrandStaircase monumentsforall.org/action

We can’t sit by while our public lands and monuments are sold off to corporate polluters. ACT NOW to #StandWithBearsEars #SaveGrandStaircase #MonumentsForAll monumentsforall.org/action

>> If you only do one thing today: At 9am ET today, public lands that were cut from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments were opened to future drilling and mining claims under the proclamations signed by President Trump in December. Participate in the monuments day of action here. 

>>Help needed:

Letters:

• Sign on to letter to Administrator Pruitt regarding designations for the 2015 ozone standard. Link here. 
• Sign monuments joint letters opposing these bills if you haven’t already (for markup/floor if needed)

• HR 4532 (link to sign)
• HR 4558 (link to sign)
• HR 3990 (link to sign)

• Outreach/Advocacy:  

• CAC is launching Boot Pruitt campaign to kick off effort to put pressure on Pruitt and point out conflicts of interest. Sign up on the google form  to plug in! 
• CAC is hosting a second community planning call for Kansas City on Monday (2/5) at 11am ET and a San Francisco call on Wednesday (2/7) at 11am ET. To plug into CPP hearing planning email smason@cacampaign.org. 
• Email Lydia lydia_weiss@tws.org with committee questions ahead of the large lands, forest and mining markup next week
• OCS Drumbeat Materials 

• Launched Protectallourcoasts.org  
• 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. 
• 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 31-Feb 2: Recess 

Feb 7: Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee hearing on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining 

Feb 8: Government funding deadline 

Feb 12: White House FY19 budget release 
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 

• Cantwell and 16 Pacific NW lawmakers sent a letter calling on Zinke to remove Washington and Oregon from the offshore drilling plan
• 12 State AGs called on Zinke to terminate offshore drilling plans 
• Pruitt on the NY Daily podcast today -- will send pushback points 
• Interior looking at reducing permitting times for onshore drilling 
• FOIA lawsuit filed by greens to expose lack of transparency at EPA 

Government Funding 

• Nuts & Bolts:

• CR vote expected in the House next week on CR until March 22 
• Freedom Caucus doesn't support yet
• Dems haven't committed to carrying the water without a budget caps deal and immigration deal 
• Could be closer to caps deal 
• Details are trickling out about Trump FY19 budget 

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• Will slash DOE's renewable energy and efficiency programs by 72 percent
• WIll gut EPA Chemical Enforcement Board 

• Response:

• Continue to push for: 

• Immigration deal that protects Dreamers and border communities/wildlife 
• These are fast moving talks -- keeping pushing for adequate funding for programs that protect children's health and our outdoors 

• Grasstops calls

• Purpose | To reinforce the need for parity in a Raise the caps deal, and to continue promoting a final budget resolution free from poison pill riders and budget cuts to critical environmental programs.  
• Goal | 5 grasstop calls/week collectively from the groups

• Instructions | Please use the google doc to sign-up for these grasstop calls. Fill in the intel you receive. We will have a standing agenda item on the Tuesday calls in the coming weeks for groups to report out. We will identify additional targets for outreach once we approach the post-budget caps phase of the fight or earlier if we want to be more prudent. 
• Google Tracker and Sign-up Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15QcKbU4c0aF1k7AA_gLl8sCMxnPHQPWyAieNzsvMvrs/edit#gid=1618726108

Shutdown Lessons Learned 

• Dems lost the meta narrative

• >> We need to shout louder and place blame on the party that controls the government 

• The administration created confusion with keeping agencies open 

• Hard to push public health language
• >> Had to adjust strategy to show chaos in the moment 

• Parks are still tangible example with reporters and create great hooks 

• Look for examples in real time 

• Important to identify and connect reporters to validating voices including local communities, former admin officials and alumni 
• We need to communicate with allies on the hill to make sure we are applying pressure in the most useful places 

Open Comment Periods

Topic	Agency	Status	Deadline
Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards	EPA	Open	2/5
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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