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Alameda County chapter, Citizens Climate Lobby.
We're for:
🌎Carbon pricing
💡Building electrification
⚡Energy permitting reform
🌳Healthy forests
#Climate #Justice #FossilFree
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Special thanks to the offices of @replsimon.bsky.social and @repgaramendi.bsky.social for meeting with us this Lobby Day🙏🙏🙏!

Our team members had a great time talking to our MOC's about energy policy and the need for climate justice in our communities.

Read more ⤵️⤵️⤵️
cclalameda.org/lobby-day-20...
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Wild. They are figuring out how to store electricity in ... concrete.
Concrete “battery” developed at MIT now packs 10 times the power
New concrete and carbon black supercapacitors with optimized electrolytes have 10 times the energy storage of previous designs and can be incorporated into a wide range of architectural forms.
news.mit.edu
November 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
🔋💧🌱Bad news ahead of the upcoming #COP30Brazil. but there's still a lot we can do. Call Congress and ask for #ClimateAction at every available opportunity!
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM
🌻🌻 #Election reading: Looks like #CleanEnergy is more of a priority this year 😀⚡. via @grist.org 6 min. read.
Rising energy bills are rewiring American politics
Tuesday's election results suggest energy costs may be moving the political needle in ways that other issues, like climate change, have not.
grist.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
💧🌱🗞️Here's our #newsletter! Stay up-to-date on #climatepolitics without having to look at mainstream media. Click below⬇️⬇️⬇️.
www2.citizensclimatelobby.org/acton/ct/178...
November 6, 2025 at 1:47 AM
🌎🌏🌍Pay attention at the next COP. For those who don't know, it's when all the countries convene on the #climatecrisis. This year, in Brazil, #COP30 will show us the direction most countries take in the next few years.
The ‘implementation COP’: why the Belém summit must ratchet up climate action
Delegates to the climate conference in Brazil must accelerate commitments to rapidly developing a low-carbon economy. There is no Planet B.
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
#TuesdayReads: Policymakers on why Biden's #CleanEnergy policies failed to take off -- and what to do if we ever get another chance 🙏.
Slow rollout throttled Biden’s big clean energy ambitions, former staffers say
An “executive branch machinery that defaulted to caution, process, and reactive strategies” undercut the ex-president’s massive energy and infrastructure programs, a report by his former staffers deta...
www.politico.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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In today's Emissions Gap Report we are going to learn that emissions should have fallen by 35% come 2035 if we are to remain below 2ºC

That means for 10yrs emissions need to fall by ~4.2% EVERY yr

I think we will hear little about the 2030 target ~7% EVERY yr. until 2030
Emissions Gap Report 2025 | UNEP - UN Environment Programme
UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report 2025: Off Target finds that available new climate pledges under the Paris Agreement have only slightly lowered global temperature rise over the course of this century, leaving the world heading for a serious escalation of climate risks and damages. UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report 2025: Off Target finds that available new climate pledges under the Paris Agreement have only slightly lowered global temperature rise over the course of this century, leaving the world heading for a serious escalation of climate risks and damages.
www.unep.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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About Teen Vogue,
I don't read or care much for a lot of mainstream media, but Teen Vogue is the only consistent non-Native media outlet that has always done an incredible job reporting on Native issues and giving our talent a platform to shine and not just to fill their "diversity" quota.
November 4, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Chart: we are building batteries 🔋🪫 at neck-breaking speed, now our grid is #invincible⚡!
#Energy #Infrastructure #ClimateNews
Chart: Batteries are set to surge onto the US grid
The transition to renewable energy — particularly solar — relies on energy storage. A ton more batteries are about to come online.
www.canarymedia.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
🌀🌪️⛈️ So the House is out, the workers aren't getting their pay ... wait, what? A life-threatening disaster!
#ClimateDisaster
#NOAA
Melissa was one of the strongest storms on record. NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters flew into it without pay | CNN
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Hurricane Hunters have spent the past week diving into the eye of Melissa — a storm of historic ferocity — to gather life-saving data. But the gov...
www.cnn.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Not-so-good news: AI and data centers are killing us, no matter how much #cleanenergy #nfrastructure we build 😮‍💨.
AI Is Pushing Climate Goals Out of Reach, New Reports Say - Inside Climate News
Without a big increase in investment in renewable energy globally, humanity will not limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius, but much of the data center boom is powered by fossil fuels.
insideclimatenews.org
October 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
🔋💧🪨One coal miner's story of displacement, uncertainty, and success!
#CleanEnergy #Infrastructure #GoodNews
Meet the coal miner who just started a geothermal drilling business
A Colorado entrepreneur is going all in on a renewable energy source that will keep him digging — and could be a model for other miners looking beyond…
www.canarymedia.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
🌞🏡🌴 #GoodNews in California: The LA fires gave people a chance to rebuild -- and with it, HUGE resilience and efficiency gains.
#CleanEnergy #Infrastructure #ElectrifyCalifornia
Taking Stock in Altadena Nine Months After the Devastating LA Fires - Inside Climate News
David Brancaccio lost his house there. As he tries to rebuild, he’s seeing how the community has pulled together—and how the loss has weighed on people.
insideclimatenews.org
October 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
📺📺📺Why AI -- and its voracious hubs, the data centers -- are bad news for #climate people.
As the Data Center Boom Ramps Up in the Rural Midwest, What Should Communities Expect? - Inside Climate News
The rapid development will change the Corn Belt in significant, unforeseen ways. Residents are just beginning to grapple with what that means.
insideclimatenews.org
October 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
🐳🍃✈️ #MondayReads Why wind farms aren't bad for whales, even as Trump levels baseless claims against them.
#ElectrifyAmerica #CleanEnergy #Infrastructure
Trump claims ‘wind mills’ kill whales but quietly torpedoes the…
The Interior Department defunds two vital research programs that track North Atlantic right whales near active offshore wind construction sites.
www.canarymedia.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Major corals are being lost all over the world 🌎. Here's a group of researchers trying to save them 🛟.
#ClimateChangeImpact
These iconic corals are nearly extinct due to heatwaves: can they be saved?
Florida’s primary reef-building corals have been declared ‘functionally extinct’ — prompting a shift in conservation strategies.
www.nature.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
🌿🐟🪨Here's what I'm looking forward to at the next #climate international conference--in Brazil, no less.
#inclusionmatters #IndigenousVoices
Will COP30 Finally Prioritize Indigenous Voices? - Inside Climate News
Indigenous and community leaders see the upcoming U.N. climate talks in the heart of the Amazon Basin as an unprecedented opportunity to infuse global climate ambitions with justice and inclusiveness.
insideclimatenews.org
October 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
🌳🌱🦧How Brazil's #HealthyForests policies are saving the lungs 🫁 of the world--one property at a time. Putting a price on deforestation seems really effective!
To save the world’s tropical forests, learn from Brazil
Last year it lost more rainforest than any other country. Yet there is hope
www.economist.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
🔌⚡💡Nice of Trump to observe some #energypolicy continuity by creating these grants.
#Climate
#SilverLinings
Trump admin approves $1.6B in financing for AEP transmission project
In a rare example of continuity on energy policy, Trump’s DOE finalized the Biden-era loan to upgrade 5,000 miles of power lines across the Midwest.
www.canarymedia.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
#ClimateNews Good bit of light reading on a Wednesday😀⛽🚙
Kia is handing out free 'gas-scented' car fresheners with its new EV
Kia has a new idea. So you don’t miss the smell of gasoline too much when you trade in for...
electrek.co
October 22, 2025 at 10:25 PM
🌻🌻🌻 #GoodNews from California! Future fires like the one at Moss Landing will be prevented.

#ClimateNews

www.canarymedia.com/articles/bat...
California has a new law to prevent big grid battery fires
The state enhanced battery safety rules in response to the Moss Landing fire. The industry is on board, hoping better standards will reassure the public.
www.canarymedia.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM