Next CDP call will take place Monday 8/20. We will return to daily calls on Tuesday 9/4.

>>If you do one thing today — Participate in the offshore day of action by committing to three tweets using this toolkit!!!

On the Horizon…

August 2-14: Senate recess

July 27-Sept 4: House recess

Sept 4-6: Kavanaugh hearing in Senate Judiciary Committee

September 30: Government funding deadline

Letters

• Sign onto this letter opposing Barrasso’s S. 3303 bill that undercuts states’ authorities under section 401 of the Clean Water Act
  • Deadline: TODAY 8/15
• Sign onto this coalition comment letter pushing back on the NEPA rule revisions
  • Deadline: Friday 8/17 at noon ET
• Sign onto this letter urging conferees to keep the Farm Bill clean of anti-enviro riders
  • Deadline: COB Friday (8/17)

Help Needed:

• Amplify this Washington Post story about Earth warming for the next five years
• Farm Bill fight
  • Sign up to participate in lobby meetings with conferees. Meeting signup and tracker can be found here
  • Group sign on
    • this letter urging conferees to keep the Farm Bill clean of anti-enviro riders before Friday 8/17
  • Senate sign on
    • Cardin letter calling for no anti-environmental riders can be found here. Target tracker here. Deadline: Wednesday 8/15
    • Remaining targets for sign-on include:
      • >>Continue outreach to: Klobuchar, Bennet, Murray, and Tester
  • House sign on:
    • Letter text here
    • Call script here
    • Spreadsheet to take targets for outreach and blast schedule here
    • Deadline: Friday 8/17
  • Community toolkit to urge Senate conferees to reject the House Farm Bill can be found here
• Clean Cars fight
  • CAC resources found here including updated digital guidance in English and Spanish, email and sample comments in English and Spanish, and a template pushing calls to the House about why clean cars standards matter
  • Call tool here
  • EDF factsheet outlining the impacts of the rollback here
  • Consumer Federation of America article here on car safety improving with fuel efficiency
• Recess toolkits
  • General August recess toolkit here from CDP (including event ideas and ways to amplify the Clean Cars rollback)
  • #DirtyBudget August Recess toolkit here to support mod D’s in standing strong against poison pill riders and engage Energy and Water conferees to ensure the final bill is free of poison pill riders.
  • Keep pushing back on the Energy and Water conference using this Dirty Water rider toolkit

Intel

• Senate is back in session this afternoon, working on some judicial nominees and then heading towards the next minibus including labor, HHS, and education
  • Please flag for CDP if you hear about any riders coming up in your area!
• Censoring science comment period ends tomorrow!

CPP Response

• Trump’s CPP replacement could be announced as early as today
  • Social guidance here
• As soon as the rule is released, CAC will have:
  • Two different telepressers
    • One featuring litigators from different green groups ready to answer your questions on the rule
    • One bilingual call involving key allies in Florida
  • A new messaging toolkit and social package
• Following the rule release, there will be ongoing activity around comment collections and any hearing that take place
• New plan will be labeled as “the dirty power plan”

Offshore Day of Action

• Today is the first of three offshore days of action each Wednesday for the rest of August!!
• Today’s theme: Expected lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico
• >>Please participate by issuing three tweets
  • Guidance here

Climate Voter Campaign

• CAP’s Generation Progress and the Years Project are launching this campaign featuring stories of young people who are on the front lines of climate change
• Videos will be shared on all social media channels rolling out once a week and reupping throughout midterm elections
• >>Help amplify videos and other content
  • Toolkit here
  • Guidance:
    • Kilan has seen sea level rise flood her neighborhood on sunny days. That’s why she’s a #ClimateVoter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM0AxkvvCew&feature=youtu.be
    • Climate change is an urgent threat no matter where you live. That’s why we need you to be a #ClimateVoter: www.BeAClimateVoter.org
    • How have you seen climate change affect your community? Share your story using #ClimateVoter and pledge to vote today: www.BeAClimateVoter.org
• >>Encourage your base to use #ClimateVoter and share messages of why they support leaders that fight for climate action

SCOTUS

• Progressive-wide local day of action (August 26)
  • Go to Uniteforjustice2018.com to get connected
  • About 90 different actions are taking place across many states, not just ones where senators will vote for Kavanaugh or are a toss up
  • Reach out to Ben at LCV with any questions! (bdriscoll@lcv.org)
• Kavanaugh Senate hearings (beginning September 4)
  • Leadership Conference is compiling questions, so any group that has questions they want raised should reach out to Ben at LCV (bdriscoll@lcv.org)

Topic	Agency	Status	Deadline	Comment Guidance	Hearing
Censored Science rule	EPA	Open	8/16	here	7/17
NEPA revision	CEQ	Open	8/20 (extended)
Ground level ozone limits	EPA	Open	8/25
ESA regulations	DOI	Open	9/24