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After Congress cuts clean energy measures, climate advocates are undeterred in D.C.

July 16, 2025 – Next week, Citizens’ Climate Lobby will hold its 16th annual Summer Conference and Lobby Day in Washington, D.C. 

CCL will welcome more than 800 registrants from around the country, who will attend conference activities beginning Sunday evening, July 20, through Monday, July 21. 

Keynote speaker Amanda Ripley — author of High Conflict and co-founder of the nonprofit Good Conflict — will offer a timely and essential message as we navigate today’s fractured political landscape. See the full conference program here.

Then on Tuesday, July 22, conference attendees will head to Capitol Hill for hundreds of climate-focused meetings with members of Congress. Every meeting will focus on asking lawmakers — Republicans and Democrats like — to support America’s clean energy transition.

Despite the Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill passing into law with major cuts to clean energy measures, the process did reveal growing support among Republican lawmakers for those very measures.

“We had a lot of different letters coming out from Republicans on clean energy provisions, saying how important they are to their district,” Jennifer Tyler, CCL Vice President of Government Affairs, reminded CCL volunteers during the organization’s July meeting.

“Even though their vote and the bill wasn’t what we were looking for, it’s clear that we are generating support in Congress — it’s there. They’re willing to step out publicly and make those proclamations. We’re in this for the long haul, and we’re going in the right direction.”

Our grassroots volunteers will build on this support, emphasizing to Congress that clean energy can strengthen our domestic energy independence, enhance grid reliability, and reduce emissions—all while lowering costs, creating jobs, and spurring private-sector investment.

Public opinion is on our side. Sixty-three percent of Americans polled in December 2024 by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication stated that developing clean energy sources should be a high or very high priority for the President and Congress.

In certain offices, lobby meetings will also include building support for healthy forest policy, such as the bipartisan Fix Our Forests Act, and discussing carbon border adjustment mechanism policy. 

Follow along with this year’s event on CCL’s social media profiles on Instagram, Bluesky, X, or Facebook.

CONTACT: Flannery Winchester, CCL Vice President of Communications, 615-337-3642,

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Citizens’ Climate Lobby is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, grassroots advocacy organization focused on national policies to address climate change. Learn more at citizensclimatelobby.org.