>>If you say one thing today — Senate Democrats must keep fighting for a budget that protects our kids’ health and safeguards America’s outdoors without new poison pill policies that sell out future generations to corporate polluters.

>>If you do one thing today — Use this toolkit to urge Senate Democrats to keep the Senate minibus clean of harmful environmental riders as they finish debate and move into conference!

On the Horizon…

June 20 TODAY: Senate EPW committee nomination hearing on William McIntosh and Peter Wright for Assistant Administrators of the EPA (guidance forthcoming)

June 25-27: Western Governors Association in Rapid City, South Dakota

June 25-26: EPA meeting on PFAS in New Hampshire

July 2-6: July 4^th Congressional Recess

Letters:

• Sign onto this letter urging Senators to keep the appropriations minibus free of policy riders and consistent with the committee level agreement
  • Deadline: Noon TODAY (6/20)
  • Reach out to Jonathan at TWS with any questions (jonathan_asher@tws.org)  
• Sign onto this letter opposing HR 5148 and HR 5149 by Rep. Gianforte to strip protections from Montana’s forests, prairies, foothills, and badlands
  • Deadline: 3:30pm ET TODAY (6/20)
• Sign onto this CEO letter to House leadership thanking them for standing up for children's health and our outdoors during the House Minibus vote
  • Deadline: COB TODAY (6/20)
• Sign onto this letter on Senate floor consideration of the rescissions package
  • Reach out to Jonathan at TWS with any questions! (jonathan_asher@tws.org)
• Sign onto this Public Citizen letter to Pruitt requesting transparency around his legal defense fund
  • Deadline: TOMORROW (6/21) at 10am ET
• Sign onto this letter from Defenders of Wildlife opposing harmful riders in the Senate Farm Bill
  • Deadline: COB TOMORROW (6/21)
  • Reach out to Sandra at Defenders with any questions! (SPUROHIT@defenders.org)
• Sign onto this letter to the NY Congressional delegation (Lowey and Schumer) asking them to support the EPA with a fully funded budget and no poison pill riders
  • Deadline: 6/27
• Sign on here to a letter from Clean Air Task Force and NRDC pushing back on the EPA’s censor science rule proposal
  • Deadline extended to 7/6/18

Help Needed:

• Plug into LWCF’s events to amplify the 100 day mark until the Land and Water Conservation Fund!
  • Social media day of action with tweetstorm TODAY (6/20) at noon!
  • Use this coalition partner content and this toolkit for op-eds and LTE’s
• Use this CAP messaging guidance to push back against Trump’s new oceans EO
• Use these talking points ahead of today’s House Natural Resources Committee markup of four offshore oil and gas bills rolling back the NEPA process
• Farm Bill
  • Social media guidance here targeting House R’s urging them to oppose a farm bill that hurts kids’ health, wildlife, outdoors to elevate the community lobby day on the hill today
  • Sign onto this letter from Defenders of Wildlife opposing harmful riders in the Senate Farm Bill by COB Thursday
    • Use this CDP messaging guidance to elevate the no anti-environmental riders in the Farm Bill letter to Senate
• Support the progressive community in the immigration fight by using this list of actions your org can take, sample tweets here to raise awareness about the administration’s cruel policy, social media here opposing the Goodlatte bill, talking points here on family separation in the Ryan bill
• Amplify this article picked up by AP on Zinke’s foundation and its links to real estate development in his hometown in Montana (social guidance here)
• Use this Clean Water Action guidance to push back against EPA’s efforts to repeal and replace the Clean Water Rule
• Use this public comment guide and this proposed rule summary to submit comments on the EPA’s censored science rule (Deadline: 8/16)
• Clean Budget Coalition meetings
  • Take a look at the Clean Budget Hill meeting assignments and email Michelle (mmcintyre@citizen.org) with which assignments you can schedule a meeting for the coalition 
  • Once the meeting is scheduled, please email Roma (RFarrar-Smith@afscme.org) and she’ll keep our master calendar of Clean Budget Hill meetings.

Intel

• Pruitt will appear before Senate EPW in August
• House will vote on the Farm Bill tomorrow

NEPA

• Notice of proposed rule-making came yesterday from CEQ, kicking off the 30-day comment period
• Watch the listserv for a joint statement to sign onto later today, as well as social media guidance and talking points

• Main talking point: 30 days is not enough time considering this is going to affect every action the federal govt takes

• Reach out to Justin at Partnership Project with any questions! (jmccarthy@partnershipproject.org)

Oceans

• Long awaited oceans EO came out yesterday from Trump rolling back Obama’s 2010 National Oceans Policy
• No mention of climate or health in it (clearly meant to be paired with offshore oil and gas development) – prime example of Trump admin selling out our oceans to corporate polluters
• Does preserve and provide federal recognition of regional ocean partnerships, so thanks to all the folks who worked hard on this!!
• Use this CAP messaging guidance to push back against this EO
• Reach out to Shiva at CAP with any questions! (spolefka@americanprogress.org)

LWCF

• This week marks 100 days until the reauthorization deadline
• Plug into the twitterstorm TODAY (6/20) at noon ET!
  • >> Post several times today, share with your networks, and use the hashtag #SaveLWCF
• Use this coalition partner content and this toolkit for op-eds and LTE’s

#DirtyBudget Fight

• Senate Minibus
  • All the amendments have been filed and we haven’t seen the high profile poison pill riders that we were concerned about, so we’re likely in the clear on those, but stay vigilant
  • A few slightly problematic amendments that have been flagged for us:
    • Crapo Whitehouse amendment on nuclear waste
    • Baldwin amendment on molybdenum production
  • Final passage is expected later today or tomorrow
  • Asks
    • Urge Senators to continue fighting for a budget that protects our kids’ health and safeguards America’s outdoors as they finish this debate and prepare for conference (toolkit here)
    • Sign onto this letter urging Senators to keep the appropriations minibus free of policy riders and consistent with the committee level agreement
      • Deadline: Noon TODAY (6/20)
      • Reach out to Jonathan at TWS with any questions (jonathan_asher@tws.org)  
• State Foreign Ops Approps Bill
  • Full committee markup tomorrow
  • House bill is bad on climate change, includes a rider barring any future contributions to the green climate fund
  • Likely to result in a battle between a bad house bill and a slightly better senate bill
  • Reach out to Jesse at Oxfam to coordinate (Jesse.Young@oxfam.org)
• Rescission Package
  • Expect the Senate to take up the House-passed rescission package after the minibus vote
  • CDP message guidance forthcoming
  • Sign onto this letter on Senate floor consideration of the rescissions package
    • Reach out to Jonathan at TWS with any questions! (jonathan_asher@tws.org)
• Senate no anti-environmental riders sign on letter
  • Thanks to all who reached out to Senators for this letter! We’ve gotten Smith, Warner, and Murray to sign on.
  • Keep your eyes out for when we release it to amplify ahead of the appropriations vote
• Reach out to Phillip (phillip@yamaone.com) or Jonathan (jonathan_asher@tws.org) for any resources or with questions

Open Comment Periods

Topic	Agency	Status	Deadline
DOE emergency authority	DOE	Open	N/A
BSEE Well Control Rule Rollback	DOI	Open	7/10
Cost/Benefit Rule	EPA	Open	7/13
NEPA revision	CEQ	Open	7/21
FERC pipeline NOI	FERC	Open	7/25
Censored Science rule	EPA	Open	8/16