Dear CCANers,
When it comes to the weather, how many times do you hear this phrase: “Wow, I never saw that before”?
Sixty-five degrees and people in flip flops on Christmas Eve? “Never saw that before.” Over two feet of snow from a single storm across much of the DC region? “Never saw that before.” And international data now showing 2015 shattered the global record for average temperature by a HUGE margin: “Never saw that before.”
At CCAN, we look around at the weather and we get even more motivated. Our goal is to get people talking about our activist campaigns the same way they talk about the weather.
A bipartisan state bill in Virginia, with strong Republican patronage, to cap carbon pollution while protecting Norfolk from sea-level rise? “Never saw that before.” Two major climate bills in Maryland – one mandating huge CO2 cuts statewide and another mandating big wind and solar gains – both potentially passed in the same legislative session? “Never saw that before.”
How about DC? We are working toward a new carbon tax campaign that would dramatically reduce emissions while increasing – increasing! – the incomes of lower- and middle-class residents in the nation’s capital? “Never saw that before.”
Yes, all of these campaigns are moving forward across our region. In Virginia: The Virginia Coastal Protection Act. In Maryland: The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act and the Clean Energy Jobs Act. In DC: A nation-leading price on pollution.
We specialize in giving concerned citizens like you a voice in the great climate movement of our time. Wherever you live across this great region, we need your help. What kind of help? Check out this 90-second video CCAN just produced in Virginia. It gives common citizens an uncommonly strong voice.
So next time the weather makes you say it – “I never saw that before” – remember there’s momentum and opportunity in your state, right now, to make a difference so big you’ve never, ever seen anything like it before.
Onward,

Mike Tidwell