We’ll be switching to Monday/Wednesday call schedule beginning next week! Next call will be Wednesday 10/10.

Please take ten minutes to fill out our CDP Rapid Response Survey here!

>>If you say one thing today — This is Brett Kavanaugh’s job interview for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. Since 2004, Brett Kavanaugh has repeated lies, half-truths, and misdirection, including while under oath, destroying his credibility.

>>If you do one thing today — Mobilize your membership to contact these swing senators:

Rs: Murkowski (AK) Collins (ME) Flake (AZ) Gardner (CO)
Ds: Manchin (WV)

They don't have the votes. The next 36 hours are critical. These are the targets if you can mobilize calls, people to drop by DC and district offices, anything.

On the Horizon…

November 6: Election Day

November 13: Congress back in session

December 7: New government funding deadline

Letters

Sign onto this letter seeking a 60-day extension on the comment deadline for the Forest Service’s proposed rulemakings to streamline and expand mining, oil and gas exploration and development on national forests and grasslands
- Deadline: COB TODAY 10/5
Sign on to this letter in opposition to the National Park Service’s proposed rulemaking to begin introducing fees for protests on the National Mall
- Deadline: Wednesday 10/10
- Email Hannah Malvin to sign on (Hannah_Malvin@tws.org)
- If folks can reach out to other issue groups please circulate the letter
Sign onto this comment letter outlining the value of Roadless areas nationwide and opposing rollbacks of Roadless protections in Alaska or elsewhere
- Deadline: Thursday 10/11
Sign onto this letter opposing any exemption or reduction of Roadless Rule protections and outlining the arguments in favor of maintaining the Roadless Rule nationally, in Alaska, and specifically in the Tongass National Forest
- Deadline: Thursday 10/11
Sign onto this letter opposing the cancelation of the application for a withdrawal of mineral leasing in the watershed of the Boundary Waters and Voyageurs National Park
- Deadline: COB Friday 10/12
Sign onto this community comment letter opposing the EPA’s replacement for the Clean Power Plan
- Deadline: COB Monday 10/29

Help Needed

Please take ten minutes to fill out our CDP Rapid Response Survey here!
Use this toolkit to message on Zinke’s scandals
Dirty Power Scam Hearing
- 50 members of the Congressional Safe Climate Caucus signed a letter urging Wheeler to reverse course on the Dirty Power Scam
- Email and sample comment language here
- Toolkit here (including talking points, sample press release, LTE, and social)
- Tweets to amplify from the hearing Monday here
Use this CDP toolkit while the House is on recess (includes messaging, social guidance, and event ideas)
Proposed changes to Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) will be released from the White House this week
- Use this toolkit to raise awareness ahead of the rule release
Join UCS's National Climate Assessment call on Wednesday 10/10 from 3-4pm ET
- Register for the call here
Roadless Rule
- Continue to drive comments until Oct 15
  - Unbranded comment portal to use in social media here
  - Use this toolkit to drive comments (including a sample e-alert, sample social media, talking points, etc)
Methane
- BLM Methane Rule Finalization
  - Use this toolkit (including sample statement, talking points, social guidance, graphics, and an op-ed template) and expanded talking points here to push back and release a statement opposing this important rule rollback
- EPA Methane Rule Rollback
  - Use this toolkit (including sample statement, message guidance, a sample comment, sample social guidance, sample graphics, and LTE templates) to activate your base and push for comments!
  - Email templates, as well as a sample call tool script and landing page template from CAC digital, are here.
  - Use this social to promote a call tool from CAC

Intel

Pelosi and McEachin will be doing a roundtable on green-collar jobs in Richmond, VA today
McNamee as FERC nominee
- Backgrounder from Beehive here
- CAC messaging guidance here

SCOTUS

Intel
- We’re in the final 36 hours of this fight
- Senate to take cloture vote at 10:30 today, needs a simple majority to pass
- Then 30 hours of debate, so we’re expecting a vote around 2:30 tomorrow
- Senator Heitkamp’s moving statement here
Get involved
- Nationwide marches are being planned for Saturday
- Join the People’s Filibuster which began yesterday and will continue until the vote tomorrow
  - Watch/promote the livestream
- Join various groups taking over Hart Atrium to make noise around Kavanaugh’s nomination
- Amplify Senator Cantwell’s speech tonight on the enviro impact of Judge Kavanaugh
- Join the nationwide marches happening tomorrow at noon ahead of the vote
Top targets:
- Senator Gardner came out as undecided yesterday, so please amp up pressure on him
- Rs: Murkowski (AK) Collins (ME) Flake (AZ) Gardner (CO)
- Ds: Manchin (WV)
Reach out to Courtney to get involved (Courtney.Hight@sierraclub.org)

Topic	Agency	Status	Deadline	Comment Guidance	Hearing
Fees on National Mall	NPS	Open	10/15
Roadless Rule Rollback	USDA-FS	Open	10/15	here	10/3 DC
Mining Regulations Revision	USDA-FS	Open	10/15
Oil and Gas Regulations Revision	USDA-FS	Open	10/15
Clean Cars Rollback	EPA and DOT	Open	10/23
FPISC Fast-41 Initiation Fee		Open	11/5
Rio Grande Valley Border Wall	Customs and Border Patrol	Open	11/6
Grand Staircase-Escalante Reductions	BLM	Open	11/15	here
Bears Ears Reductions	BLM	Open	11/15	here
Methane Rule Rollback	EPA	Not yet	TBA	here