Next call will be Monday 10/29.

>>If you do one thing today — Participate in the #ClimateVoter tweetstorm from 2-3pm ET and amplify messages from voters across the country about why they’re “climate voters” this election (toolkit here)

On the Horizon…

October 26: Cars comment period deadline

November 1: Zinke’s “Birthday Party” in front of DOI at noon!

November 6: Election Day

November 13: Congress back in session

November 15: FERC nominee Bernard McNamee hearing

December 7: New government funding deadline

Letters

• Sign onto this community comment letter opposing the EPA’s Dirty Power Scam
  • Deadline: COB Monday 10/29
• Sign onto this other letter opposing EPA’s Dirty Power Scam
  • Deadline: COB Tuesday 10/30
• Sign on here to this letter from the Outdoors Alliance for Kids (OAK steering committee member, American Heart Association) in support of getting the legislation to the Senate floor and passing the Senate before the end of this Congress
  • Deadline: COB Wednesday 10/31

Help Needed

• From 2-3pm ET TODAY, join the Climate Voter tweetstorm using the hashtag #ClimateVoter—social media guidance is available in the #ClimateVoter toolkit

• Use this deadline push email template and sample comment from CAC to get comments in before the Friday 10/26 deadline for the Cars rollback

• Use this social guidance to amplify this WaPo story on a 14 year long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and how the company responsible for it is David Bernhardt’s former employer

• Continue to amplify the New Yorker story on Zinke firing his own IG using this social and #InvestigateZinke
• Join a UCS call on Tuesday, 11/13, from 1 – 2 PM ET on the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4)
  • Please fill out this form to register for the call
• Dirty Power Scam
  • Email and sample comment language here
  • Toolkit here (including talking points, sample press release, LTE, and social)
• Use this CDP toolkit while the House is on recess (includes messaging, social guidance, and event ideas)
• Mercury Standards
  • Join the next community call: TOMORROW 10/25 at 11am
    • Dial-in: 866-774-1290,,9290083027#
  • Toolkit here to raise awareness ahead of the rule release
• EPA Methane Rollback
  • Use this toolkit (including sample statement, message guidance, a sample comment, sample social guidance, sample graphics, and LTE templates) to activate your base, push for comments, and release a statement!
  • 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
  • Use this social guidance to promote a senate sign on letter opposing this rollback
• Use this #PeopleOverPolluters toolkit to elevate and push back on the worst rollbacks around toxins

Intel

• Trump nominated Aurelia Skipwith to be director of the Fish and Wildlife Service. Greens have called out her former ties to agrochemical company Monsanto.
• Zinke is likely headed to the Gulf next week to tour National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Gulf conservation projects
  • Zinke's also invited to attend the NFWF annual board meeting though no word on whether he’s committed
  • Zinke's visit would come a week after he appointed political supporter and Montana businessman K.C. Walsh to the NFWF board along with Shell Oil Co. President Bruce Culpepper
  • While in New Orleans, Zinke will stop in to meet with staff at BSEE and BOEM
• Trump implied Tuesday that he may make Wheeler the permanent EPA chief
• Southern Environment Law Center is out with a new study today on the link between hurricanes and offshore drilling

Topic	Agency	Status	Deadline	Comment Guidance	Hearing
Clean Cars Rollback	EPA and DOT	Open	10/26
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	Open	12/17	here