11 days until government funding expires.

>>If you say one thing today — Climate change is already harming the health and wealth of the American people. Because of climate change, sea level rise is already regularly flooding coastal communities in the east, while droughts and fires are already scorching the west. Fighting climate change will save hundreds of billions of dollars and save thousands of lives.

>>If you do one thing today — Use this Climate Nexus message guidance, social media toolkit, and infographics to keep the spotlight on the Fourth National Climate Assessment out last Friday from the Trump administration!

On the Horizon…

November 27 TOMORROW: #NoBorderWall Day of Action

November 29: #ItsTime Day of Action

November 30: National Flood Insurance Program expires

December 2: EPA Anniversary

December 3-14: COP 24

December 4: #NoBorderWall Day of Action

December 7: Government funding deadline

December 17: Clean Air Act anniversary

Week Ahead by Sean Alcorn

House Floor Activity

The House convenes at noon on Tuesday, with the usual collection of suspension bills.
Beyond suspension bills, there is... actually nothing else currently scheduled. "Additional legislative items are possible" according to the Republican Cloakroom, which is likely referring to a potential farm bill, but at this point they've got nothing but suspension bills for this week.

House Committee Activity

Only a scant few hearings scheduled at all this week, and nothing directly in our space. Perhaps they really are letting sleeping lame ducks lie?

Senate Floor Activity

The Senate convenes at 3 PM on Monday, with a 5:30 PM cloture vote on the nomination of Vaden to be GC of the Dept. of Agriculture.
McConnell has stacked four more nominations following this one, meaning that absent something like a farm bill coming up the Senate's week will be spent on more nominations.

Senate Committee Activity

On Monday at 9 AM the Commerce committee held a field hearing in Massachusetts on "Pipeline safety in the Merrimack Valley: incident prevention and response."
On Tuesday at 10 AM the Energy & Natural Resources committee is holding a business meeting to consider several nominees: Baranwal for Assistant Sec of Energy (nuclear), McNamee for FERC, and Vela for director of the National Park Service.
On Wednesday at 10 AM the Environment & Public Works committee is holding a hearing on "Addressing America's Surface Transportation Infrastructure Needs."
On Thursday at 10 AM the Energy & Natural Resources committee is holding a legislative on more than a dozen pieces of energy legislation. This including Sen. Manchin's Fossil Energy Utilization Enhancement and Leadership Act and Murkowski's Nuclear Energy Leadership Act.
On Friday at 9:30 AM the Environment & Public Works committee is holding a nomination hearing on Alexandra Dunn for EPA Assistant Administrator (toxics).

Letters

Sign onto this letter demanding that all prospective Democratic leadership, Committee Chairs and members of the proposed Select Committees on Climate Change and/or the Green New Deal take the no fossil fuel money pledge
- Deadline: 4pm ET TODAY 11/26
Sign onto this Latinx organization letter in support of maintaining EPA’s critical oil and gas pollution standards that regulate harmful methane pollution
- All national, state, and local Latinx organizations are invited to sign on
- Deadline: 5pm ET Friday 11/30
Sign onto this letter urging EPA not to weaken the 404(c) regulations that would impose significant restrictions on EPA’s use of this important Clean Water Act authority
- Deadline: Tuesday 12/4

Help Needed

Keep the spotlight on the Fourth National Climate Assessment out last Friday!!
- Climate Nexus message guidance and social media toolkit
Participate in the next #NoBorderWall day of action TOMORROW 11/27 using this toolkit!
Use this #DirtyBudget toolkit to keep pressuring Congress to pass a final budget in Lame Duck with no cuts or poison pill riders
Farm Bill
- Currently in talks on the environmental riders, so keep the pressure on House Dems.
  - Use this letter from House Dems on no riders in the farm bill to message
  - Targeted Farm Bill social guidance here
Continue messaging on LWCF using these resources:
- Sample social
- Toolkit
- Talking points
- Sign up here to do member outreach
#ItsTime Post Election Campaign

· Continue using the toolkit here to let Congress know #ItsTime to protect public health and the environment

Use this social to amplify the Hill article about Zinke blaming “environmental radicals” for forest fires
EPA Methane Rollback
- Post-hearing sample LTEs
- 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 post-election messaging on a wide range of environmental issues and this CAC post-election accountability toolkit
Use this toolkit to drive comments around the Forest Service's recent proposed changes to its 2015 greater sage grouse conservation plans (includes a sample comment, topline messaging, a sample action alert, sample social media guidance, and a summary of the Forest Service's proposal)
- Comment period open until 1/3/19
Mercury Standards
- Reach out to Erin from CAC to be included on a listserv being set up to focus on this fight (taylor@cacampaign.com)
- Toolkit here to raise awareness ahead of the rule release
Use this #PeopleOverPolluters toolkit to elevate and push back on the worst rollbacks around toxins
- Will be continuously updated

Intel

Zinke and Perdue may go to California and attempt to argue that more logging is needed to prevent fires
- >> This is currently an active fight with Farm Bill negotiations. Important to push back to change the narrative
- Use this Zinke campaign social to elevate

Fourth National Climate Assessment

See the report released last Friday after Thanksgiving
Toplines
- “Health and wealth, fires and floods”
  - Climate change is already harming people’s health and taking economic tolls
  - There are two big extreme weather patterns the report links to climate change
    - Drought and fires on the West Coast
    - Storms and sea level rise on the East Coast
- Equity is woven throughout this report in ways it hasn’t been in past years making clear that low-income, indigenous, and POC communities are suffering the most
  - Sectors that rely on predictable seasons or weather will see a steeper impact (agriculture, tourism, fishing)
  - Migration is going to be necessary and will be very expensive, thus taking a bigger toll on the poor
- We may be able to do some pushback on how the report was buried by the Trump administration the day after Thanksgiving, but we want to focus on the content of the report itself before we delve into how it was released. Wait on this for now.
Respond
- Amplify this Hill op-ed from EDF
- Use this UCS social to amplify the report’s release
- Climate Nexus Resources
- Updated resources will circulate later today!

Topic	Agency	Status	Deadline	Comment Guidance	Hearing
Methane Rule Rollback	EPA	Open	12/17	here	11/14 Denver
Sage Grouse	USDA-FS	Open	1/3	here
DOE emergency authority	DOE	Open	N/A