There are 19 legislative days between now and the March 23 funding deadline.

>> If you say one thing today-- CAC MOD: Americans overwhelmingly support the Clean Power Plan, but EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is working to repeal these lifesaving standards to benefit his corporate polluter cronies.

>> If you only do one thing today: Amplify the CPP San Fran hearing!

Hashtags: #ProtectCPP, #CleanPowerPlan, #EPAinSF

CAC CPP DIGITAL RESOURCES:

Hearing-specific social guidance in ENGLISH and SPANISH
Comprehensive social document HERE
Email, call tool, and petition templates HERE
State-specific CPP health impacts social HERE
State-specific CPP job impacts social HERE
High-res graphics HERE

LIVESTREAMS/ LIVE TWEETING

>>Help needed:

Letters

Sign onto letter opposing attacks on clean water safeguards, including the Clean Water Rule rider by COB TODAY. You can view the letter and sign on here.
Sign onto letter opposing Barry Myers’ nomination to lead NOAA by filling out this google form by COB Friday
Sign on to letter calling on Pruitt to pay Americans back for his outrageous luxury travel HERE by COB FRIDAY
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:

ESA
- #StopExtinction national call in/social media day of action TODAY!
- Toolkit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vJ8FjIbgh-AjMvr0fXuydRfR2A__Ea3-Qcp0zn8Pt_4/edit
Offshore
- Final push for offshore comments before March 9 deadline -- already at 1.5 million comments!
- Track your comments in in this spreadsheet, blue column.
- This toolkit has sample emails and oher useful information.
- Email mary.sweeters@greenpeace.org with any questions

CPP
- Tweet about hearing today using #ProtectCPP
- Live stream here: http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=ab614e09-1416-435b-9668-3d389748ccb9
Lands
- Help shine a light on the Royalty Policy Committee meeting:
  
  1. “Selling off public land and resources as quickly as possible at fire-sale prices is not good stewardship; it’s a shell game where the oil, gas, and coal industries win and the American taxpayers lose.” http://bit.ly/2HPjtywvia @SenatorCantwell @RepRaulGrijalva
  
  2. Thank you @SenatorCantwell & @RepRaulGrijalva for holding @SecretaryZinke accountable for his favors to the oil and gas industry
  
  3. Thank you @SenatorCantwell & @RepRaulGrijalva for reminding @SecretaryZinke he said taxpayers should get a fair value from public energy resources
  
  4. .@SenatorCantwell & @RepRaulGrijalva, thank you for standing up for taxpayers against @Interior policies that put industry profits before sound policy
- 5. Today in Houston an oil-friendly federal panel will meet to find ways to give drillers a sweetheart dealhttps://www.texasobserver.org/meet-oil-friendly-federal-panel-give-drillers-sweetheart-deal via@TexasObserver @schwellenbach

On the Horizon…

Feb 28: CPP hearing in San Francisco

March 1: Zinke 1-year anniversary

March 1: Senate EPW Secretary Chao Infrastructure hearing

March 5: Offshore week of action

March 23: Government Funding Deadline

March 26-April 6: Congressional Recess

March 27: CPP hearing in Gillette, WY

Intel

Infrastructure

Updates:
- Senate Dems will release their infrastructure blueprint 2.0 next week
  - Includes strong funding for our programs like water and resiliency
  - Does not include new permitting provisions as of now
- Senator Cornyn made comments yesterday that an Infrastructure bill is unlikely to move in this Congress
  - This is not an chance to let up!
  - We will still see committee action
EPW Hearing
- Nuts and bolts:
  - EPW will hold a hearing at 10am tomorrow on Trump's infrastructure proposal
  - Secretary Chao and Army Corps to testify
- Goal: Make plan seem ridiculous and extreme
- Response:
  - Questions to committee
  - Opeds
  - Hearing preview tweets today
  - Rapid response content and video

Government Funding

FY18

Intel:
- Interior-Environment FY18 will get more money than last year
- Udall reporting that over 50 riders are at play in the bill -- will meet with Murkowski end of this week/early next week
Timeline:
- Feb 26-March 9: Subcommittees write bills and riders are negotiated
- March 12-23: Bills are released, potential floor action
Rider fight materials

Tongass:
- Toolkit for alert text, talking points here
- Grasstops/CEO level calls need to Schumer, Cantwell, Leahy and Udall

ESA
- #StopExtinction national call in/social media day of action TODAY!
- The toolkit and sample tweets also include a link to a backgrounder document, which provides additional info and talking points on the riders:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vJ8FjIbgh-AjMvr0fXuydRfR2A__Ea3-Qcp0zn8Pt_4/edit
WOTUS
- Sign onto letter by COB TODAY here!
Social Cost of Carbon
- Additional resources from EDF here.

FY19

Policy Resources:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q4eFUo7-HI2Zs1zeg7sBJCGH5AKFZlKk71lwDJ4GTF8/edit

Grasstops/CEO calls

Purpose | To call for good 302b allocations 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
Key Targets:
- Leadership | Schumer, Pelosi, Hoyer, Durbin
- Tier #1 | Udall, Lowey, and Leahy
- Tier #2 | Van Hollen, Schatz, Kilmer, Pingree, Lowey, Manchin, Tester, Baldwin, Collins, Alexander, McCollum, Simpson

Additional Resources:

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.
Monuments
- 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.

Open Comment Periods

Topic	Agency	Status	Deadline
Clean Power Plan Repeal	EPA	Open	4/26
Offshore 5-year plan proposal	Interior	Open	3/8
Bears Ears Reductions	BLM	Open	3/19
Grand Staircase-Escalante Reductions	BLM	Open	3/19
BLM Methane Replacement	BLM	Open	4/23

Julia Alschuler

Combined Defense Project