Pete Maysmith
@pete.lcv.org
President @lcv.org , organizer, climate fighter.
Simply an icon. Gracious and warm in person, a bulldog when she fights for us and the planet, we're a better country because of Nancy Pelosi. From the bottom of my heart, Madam Speaker, thank you.
November 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Simply an icon. Gracious and warm in person, a bulldog when she fights for us and the planet, we're a better country because of Nancy Pelosi. From the bottom of my heart, Madam Speaker, thank you.
Reminder: 33 states have elections today! Make sure you cast your ballot if yours is one of them!
November 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Reminder: 33 states have elections today! Make sure you cast your ballot if yours is one of them!
Reposted by Pete Maysmith
Cost of living, including rising energy bills, is a major issue for voters. Our state affiliates are running big campaigns in major races this fall to highlight who is focused on the issues that matter and who is making the problem even worse. Thread and memo below on key ⚡ races we’re watching 🧵👇
October 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Cost of living, including rising energy bills, is a major issue for voters. Our state affiliates are running big campaigns in major races this fall to highlight who is focused on the issues that matter and who is making the problem even worse. Thread and memo below on key ⚡ races we’re watching 🧵👇
The electric bills are too damn high and we need to call out who is making them higher
Banning Clean Energy is Costing People Money–Let’s Say So
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October 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The electric bills are too damn high and we need to call out who is making them higher
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"It’s not enough just to wave placards and say, 'Climate change!' The point is to take actual action. To do your bit."
Jane Goodall was an environmental hero who dedicated her life to protecting animals and their habitats and who understood the threat of climate change more than anyone.
Jane Goodall was an environmental hero who dedicated her life to protecting animals and their habitats and who understood the threat of climate change more than anyone.
Jane Goodall, famed primatologist and conservationist, dies at 91
Jane Goodall, the most prolific primatologist of a generation, has died. She was 91 years old.
abcnews.go.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
"It’s not enough just to wave placards and say, 'Climate change!' The point is to take actual action. To do your bit."
Jane Goodall was an environmental hero who dedicated her life to protecting animals and their habitats and who understood the threat of climate change more than anyone.
Jane Goodall was an environmental hero who dedicated her life to protecting animals and their habitats and who understood the threat of climate change more than anyone.
Trump and the Republicans have shut down the government because they want to continue raising costs for everything.
October 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Trump and the Republicans have shut down the government because they want to continue raising costs for everything.
We seem to mostly scream and shout at each other about disagreements. Here's an exception - pretty much everyone wants dangerous chemicals out of our food. Now we just need Congressional Republicans to pay attention. https://bit.ly/46sdA80
Congress tries to shut down action on dangerous PFAS in fertilizer 'in the dark of night'
Earlier this month, we reported about a potential health risk being spread on American farms and invading our food and milk supply. Fertilizer made from human w
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September 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
We seem to mostly scream and shout at each other about disagreements. Here's an exception - pretty much everyone wants dangerous chemicals out of our food. Now we just need Congressional Republicans to pay attention. https://bit.ly/46sdA80
Shared this on LinkedIn the other day, but think with a shutdown looming and horrible news, it’s good to share here too. Here’s what’s keeping me hopeful about the coming months https://bit.ly/42cERZq
Hope is what fuels us as people
I spent most of last week at an LCV all staff retreat, and early one morning before we began, I walked out on a little pier just before sunrise. One of the organizers on our team (a fellow early bird)...
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September 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Shared this on LinkedIn the other day, but think with a shutdown looming and horrible news, it’s good to share here too. Here’s what’s keeping me hopeful about the coming months https://bit.ly/42cERZq
Threatening people’s healthcare and livelihoods to please your mega-donors isn’t leadership.
September 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Threatening people’s healthcare and livelihoods to please your mega-donors isn’t leadership.
Happy Public Lands Day from past me celebrating the designation of Camp Hale as a national monument. Looking forward to the day we can celebrate like this again.
September 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Happy Public Lands Day from past me celebrating the designation of Camp Hale as a national monument. Looking forward to the day we can celebrate like this again.
CON JOB ALERT! Trump's "energy dominance" is ALL HAT and NO CATTLE. STRONG piece from @sammyroth.bsky.social
In today’s @latimes.com: My column on the “energy dominance” lie that Trump has been peddling for nearly a decade. Time for Democrats and solar/wind companies to stop pretending “energy dominance” is a real thing and come up with a new plan. www.latimes.com/environment/...
September 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
CON JOB ALERT! Trump's "energy dominance" is ALL HAT and NO CATTLE. STRONG piece from @sammyroth.bsky.social
These were projects that dealt with sewage leaks and flooding and lowered cancer rates. They are not partisan projects; no one wants sewage in their homes. Stop this nonsense - don’t do things that hurt people. https://wapo.st/4gt1yhV
Black communities, shaken by Trump cuts, feel ‘left behind again’
The Trump administration has canceled nearly two dozen projects, according to a Post analysis, undermining efforts on pollution, sewage leaks and flooding.
wapo.st
September 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
These were projects that dealt with sewage leaks and flooding and lowered cancer rates. They are not partisan projects; no one wants sewage in their homes. Stop this nonsense - don’t do things that hurt people. https://wapo.st/4gt1yhV
How ‘bout we focus on the real problem: Trump banning clean energy and insisting on expensive, dirty energy - instead of victim blaming us for running the AC in the summer.
September 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
How ‘bout we focus on the real problem: Trump banning clean energy and insisting on expensive, dirty energy - instead of victim blaming us for running the AC in the summer.
Don’t know about you but I’d really like to know what’s being pumped into the air I breathe.
Trump admin won’t make polluters report how much they’ve polluted | CNN
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin framed the new steps as a move to end burdensome regulations. Climate advocates blasted it as a way to give polluters a free pass.
www.cnn.com
September 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Don’t know about you but I’d really like to know what’s being pumped into the air I breathe.
I do this work because I want a country and a world that is safe for everyone. That includes those whose views I vehemently disagree with. Violence does not have a place in our world.
September 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I do this work because I want a country and a world that is safe for everyone. That includes those whose views I vehemently disagree with. Violence does not have a place in our world.
The cost of canceling offshore wind projects is more than just lost jobs and wasted work – it’s higher rates for everyone paying bills: https://bit.ly/4mW4XrK
3.5 GW of offshore wind in New England could offset natural gas price spikes: report
Offshore wind in the region could have offset the surge in natural gas prices last winter and saved ratepayers $400 million, according to a report from Daymark Energy Advisors.
www.utilitydive.com
September 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The cost of canceling offshore wind projects is more than just lost jobs and wasted work – it’s higher rates for everyone paying bills: https://bit.ly/4mW4XrK
Dissent is patriotic. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/08/29/epa-dissent-letter-employees-fired/
Trump officials fire EPA employees for signing dissent letter
The move to terminate the staffers marks an escalation in the Trump administration’s effort to clamp down on dissent within the federal bureaucracy.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
We always say that elections have consequences, but it’s also the case that bad votes in Congress have consequences: https://politi.co/4lTarCp
In windy Iowa, a GOP lawmaker faces a reckoning over Trump’s clean energy war
Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks held her seat by a razor-thin margin in 2024, but could see her support erode because of her vote to end incentives for renewable energy.
www.politico.com
September 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
We always say that elections have consequences, but it’s also the case that bad votes in Congress have consequences: https://politi.co/4lTarCp
Wildland firefighters are the best among us. Terrorizing them makes us all less safe, not more. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/federal-agents-arrest-firefighters-working-on-wa-wildfire/
Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire
Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.
www.seattletimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Wildland firefighters are the best among us. Terrorizing them makes us all less safe, not more. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/federal-agents-arrest-firefighters-working-on-wa-wildfire/
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Killing clean energy projects means killing jobs and raising bills. 64,000 jobs already lost or at risk. 400,000 more on the line. The future is clean energy—and that’s where we must invest.
August 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Killing clean energy projects means killing jobs and raising bills. 64,000 jobs already lost or at risk. 400,000 more on the line. The future is clean energy—and that’s where we must invest.
20 years ago today I'd just moved into a new house with my two young kids. I remember watching coverage of Katrina, wondering if we had space to take in a displaced family, wondering what I could do to prevent it happening again.
August 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
20 years ago today I'd just moved into a new house with my two young kids. I remember watching coverage of Katrina, wondering if we had space to take in a displaced family, wondering what I could do to prevent it happening again.
This is the kind of specific, life-impacting legislation that shouldn’t be partisan – everyone wants good weather reporting.
E&E News: Democrats line up behind bill to protect NOAA offices
The legislation would halt the termination of leases or ceasing of construction.
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August 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This is the kind of specific, life-impacting legislation that shouldn’t be partisan – everyone wants good weather reporting.
When you CUT OFF WIND AND SOLAR (which MANY smart people say are the CHEAPEST, CLEANEST and MOST BEAUTIFUL energy sources) prices WILL GO UP. The ones raising energy prices are TRUMP, and the OIL and GAS COMPANIES who gave him $1BILLION.
August 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
When you CUT OFF WIND AND SOLAR (which MANY smart people say are the CHEAPEST, CLEANEST and MOST BEAUTIFUL energy sources) prices WILL GO UP. The ones raising energy prices are TRUMP, and the OIL and GAS COMPANIES who gave him $1BILLION.
Here's a potential perfect storm risk: uncertain increasing electric from data centers + Trump admin banning clean energy = higher prices and dirtier air for rate payers.
We need our legislators to invest in scalable, affordable clean energy solutions before it's too late.
@coloradosun.com
We need our legislators to invest in scalable, affordable clean energy solutions before it's too late.
@coloradosun.com
Xcel says it needs to spend $22 billion to keep up with potential demand from Colorado data centers by 2040
Figuring out how much demand there will be in the next 15 years is tricky. Overbuilding could leave customers on the hook, experts say.
coloradosun.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Here's a potential perfect storm risk: uncertain increasing electric from data centers + Trump admin banning clean energy = higher prices and dirtier air for rate payers.
We need our legislators to invest in scalable, affordable clean energy solutions before it's too late.
@coloradosun.com
We need our legislators to invest in scalable, affordable clean energy solutions before it's too late.
@coloradosun.com
This president taking control of a local police force is an abuse of power and textbook authoritarianism, full stop.
DC crime is at a 30 year low. Statehood now is the answer.
DC crime is at a 30 year low. Statehood now is the answer.
Live Updates: Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police
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August 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This president taking control of a local police force is an abuse of power and textbook authoritarianism, full stop.
DC crime is at a 30 year low. Statehood now is the answer.
DC crime is at a 30 year low. Statehood now is the answer.