One climate advocacy group is drawing on its network of thousands of volunteers around the country as it pushes Congress to preserve energy tax credits passed in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Citizens’ Climate Lobby has been known in recent years for trying to drum up bipartisan support for concepts like carbon pricing and permitting reform, via a network of local chapters around the country with thousands of members.
But since January the group has been focused on pushing congressional Republicans to keep tax credits for renewable energy, electric vehicles, carbon capture and more.
CCL leaders hope that having lawmakers and their staff meet with their own constituents — many of whom are Republican — and hear from them in forums like newspaper letters to the editor and town halls can move the needle.
