There are 2 legislative days between now and the February 8 funding deadline.

>> If you say one thing today: If the notion of putting a coal lobbyist in charge of protecting our air and water from harmful pollutants wasn’t scary enough already, Andrew Wheeler’s highly problematic fundraising activities should put the brakes on his nomination and the Senate should investigate his actions immediately.

>> If you only do one thing today: Call for delay of vote and new hearings on Wheeler

FOX GUARDING THE HEN HOUSE: @realDonaldTrump wants to put coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler in charge of protecting our water and air #DirtyDeputies

[Stand by for caps deal news and messaging]

>>Help needed:

Letters:

Sign onto civil society letter to CA Governor Jerry Brown circulated by a coalition of California, national, and international community, environmental justice, faith based, and climate organizations in advance of the upcoming Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco to support CA delegation's climate leadership. The initial deadline for sign-ons is February 9th.
Sign monuments joint letters opposing these bills if you haven’t already (for markup/floor if needed)

Outreach/Advocacy:
- Participate in #StopExtinction social media day of action TODAY here.
- Support Dreamers and no border wall with this digital toolkit
- Participate in the Dream Act National Day of Action TODAY at 12pm at *NEW Location ** Lutheran Church of the Reformation (212 East Capitol St NE, Washington, DC 20003)
- CAC launched a 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 San Francisco on Wednesday (2/7) at 11am ET. To plug into CPP hearing planning email smason@cacampaign.org.
- Wheeler for Deputy EPA Administrator materials on CAC hub HERE.
- 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…

Feb 6: EPW committee Wheeler vote and hearing on "The Impact of Federal Environmental Regulations and Policies on American Farming and Ranching Communities.”

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

Feb 7: Dream Act National Day of Action

Feb 7: #StopExtinction ESA rider tweetstorm

Feb 8: Government funding deadline

Feb 12: White House FY19 budget release

Feb 12: WH Infrastructure release
Feb 21: CPP hearing in Kansas City,MO
Feb 28: CPP hearing in San Francisco

Early March: Debt ceiling deadline
March 27: CPP hearing in Gillette, WY
April 30: EPA Ozone designations

Intel

Reporting that Wheeler gave campaign contributions to EPW Republicans
NY Times has a great story that shows toxic sites vulnerable for flooding -- good opportunity for state based media push

Government Funding

Nuts & Bolts:
- House
  - House GOP voted on CR until March 23 that includes full year defense spending and community health center funding
- Senate:
  - Close to a caps deal
    - Concerns: Wildlife, infrastructure funding, tax extenders, supplemental
    - >> Look for caps deal guidance from CDP
- - New bill will go back to the House and require another vote
- We should expect an omnibus this year where we will face a fight against cuts and riders (Important to reach out to champs to defend priorities)
Response:
- Social media day of action tomorrow
- Support Dreamers and no border wall with this digital toolkit
- #StopExtinction day of action today

- Champ engagement:
  - Purpose | To defend our priorities during omnibus negotiations
  - Goal | Looking for activity in priority states including
    Vermont (Leahy), Illinois (Durbin), New York (Lowey), New Mexico (Udall)
  - Reach out to CDP if you have capacity in these places!
- 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

White House FY19 and Infrastructure Release

Nuts & Bolts:
- These will both come out on the the same day -- next Monday Feb 12
- Both with defund EPA and attack bedrock environmental laws
- Important to tie together messaging as attack on children's health and environment
Goals:
1. Make Trump’s new budget and the infrastructure package (including attacks on bedrock environmental laws) as toxic as possible by framing it as an attack on children’s health and the environment.
2. Take advantage of the moment to get key decision-makers on Capitol Hill to reject anti-environmental cuts and Trump’s #infrastructurescam
3. Don’t let Pruitt play “good cop” by opposing cuts. Make him own it. [Budget[]
Response:
- Rapid response analysis
  - Reach out to CDP if you are planning any analysis or can plug in on either topic
- Immediate reactions
  - Put out statement and push hard on social
  - Sign on to join infrastructure statement from NEPA campaign
  - >> CDP will circulate guidance
  - CAP will host infrastructure response telepresser
- Media outreach
  - Tie the two together for reporters
  - >> Let us know if a member of your organization can serve as a spokesperson on MONDAY Feb 12 on budget or infrastructure
- Post-release:
  - Opeds, LTEs
  - State impacts
  - Storytellers

Open Comment Periods

Topic	Agency	Status	Deadline
Clean Power Plan	EPA	Open	4/26
Clean Power Plan Proposed Rule Making	EPA	Open	2/26
Offshore 5-year plan proposal	Interior	Open	3/8
Bears Ears Reductions	BLM	Open	3/19
Grand Staircase-Escalante Reductions	BLM	Open	3/19