Send Big Oil the Bill: Senator Van Hollen and Regional Legislators Spotlight “Make Polluters Pay” Plans for Climate Damage Relief As billion-dollar climate disasters mount in the DMV, policy experts and lawmakers map out practical tools to move climate disaster costs off taxpayers and onto major fossil fuel polluters WASHINGTON, DC — As regional climate […]
Deregulation was bad for consumers, but utilities’ proposal for re-regulation would be worse Op-Ed by Brittany Baker, CCAN Action Fund’s Maryland Director, initially published in Maryland Matters For the past quarter-century, Marylanders have been struggling with the impact of policymakers’ decision to deregulate the state’s gas and electric utility markets. By many accounts, deregulation has
CCAN Action Fund Joins Bipartisan Effort to Fix FEMA Statement: Congress should pass “FEMA” Act As Soon As Possible WASHINGTON, DC–CCAN Action Fund is joining leading advocacy organizations, state and local officials, emergency managers, and disaster response organizations in supporting the Fixing Emergency Management for Americans Act, or “FEMA” Act of 2025. As the
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Lessons from RFK: Standing Up to Corporate Power in DC Development By Lauren Greacen Gygax, CCAN’s Executive Operations Associate and Special Projects Coordinator Last summer, we saw how easily D.C.’s strong sustainability and community safeguards can be sidelined when a powerful third party with deep pockets enters the picture. Community leaders and activists struggled to
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MD Black Caucus, Advocates Call for Override of RENEW and Reparations Vetoes to Confront Climate Vulnerability and Repair Historic Harm Panel highlights the legacy of redlining and how past injustices exacerbated current heat and flood risks while urging the state legislature to take action ANNAPOLIS, MD – To call attention to reparative policy action needed
A Historic Night in the Commonwealth: The Largest Virginia Climate Majority in the Modern Political Era Is Here By Victoria Higgins, CCAN Action Fund’s Virginia Director If you’re like us, today you’re breathing a sigh of relief. A sigh that maybe you’ve been holding for four years. We WON. And we just made history in
Hot, humid, and getting worse: Why Maryland must step up on climate Op-Ed by Brittany Baker, CCAN Action Fund’s Maryland Director, initially published in Afro News “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.” How many times have we heard someone use that phrase to explain the sticky discomfort of a brutal summer day? How many
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Two Weeks In: Trump Administration’s Shutdown Hurts Millions, Threatens Public Safety Agencies vital to weather monitoring, environmental safety, and disaster response are crippled during peak hurricane season, as the President’s Congressional allies refuse to end the crisis WASHINGTON, DC — Today marks two weeks since President Trump and his allies in Congress triggered a
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After Another Brutal Summer, Climate Solutions Must Come First Op-Ed by Dr. Jon Gorman, initially published in Maryland Matters. With this summer’s relentless extreme heat, flash flooding and smoke from Canadian wildfires still lingering, Marylanders are gasping for air, battling rising water, with devastating consequences for their health, homes, and neighborhoods. At the same time,
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Government Shutdown Is a Direct Hit to American Families, a Reckoning for Climate and Democracy Trump’s shutdown guts vital federal safeguards, including disaster relief, clean energy, and worker protections WASHINGTON, DC — The American people are faced today with a major shutdown of the federal government, but the Trump Administration has been slowly shutting down
