Pete Maysmith

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.

A crowd of people holding signs that say "VOTE"

Reminder: 33 states have elections today! Make sure you cast your ballot if yours is one of them!

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 🧵👇

Banning Clean Energy is Costing People Money–Let’s Say So

The electric bills are too damn high and we need to call out who is making them higher

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.

"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.

Trump and the Republicans have shut down the government because they want to continue raising costs for everything.

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

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

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)...

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.

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

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.

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

A photo of a bus. On the side of it is an ad that suggests people undertake a home energy audit.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Dissent is patriotic. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/08/29/epa-dissent-letter-employees-fired/

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.

We always say that elections have consequences, but it’s also the case that bad votes in Congress have consequences: https://politi.co/4lTarCp

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.

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/

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.

More storms will brew in the Atlantic this summer, and we're unprepared to forecast and respond to them. If you remember what it felt like that day in 2005, and you want to do something, call your Senators. Tell them to insist Trump fund FEMA, NOAA and all the agencies that protect us.

Working for environmental justice means working to prevent more Katrinas, and Irmas, and Harveys, and Marias. It's working to protect the communities who're being hit the hardest AND to stop the climate crisis full stop so storms like these don't continue to grow and grow.

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.

What Does NOAA Do for Us, and How Can We Defend It? The Trump administration has attempted to cut staff at a vital agency that keeps us safe. Here's what we can do about it.

I also recently saw this great blog post from @ucs.org that I think is great for sharing with anyone in your life who doesn’t know what NOAA does

E&E News: Democrats line up behind bill to protect NOAA offices The legislation would halt the termination of leases or ceasing of construction.

This is the kind of specific, life-impacting legislation that shouldn’t be partisan – everyone wants good weather reporting.

A screenshot of a Donald J. Trump Truth Social Post. The text lies: Any State that has build and relied on WINDMILLS and SOLAR for power are seeing RECORD BREAKING INCREASES IN ELECTRICITY AND ENERGY COSTSS. THE SCAM OF THE CENTURY! We will not approve wind or farmer destroying Solar. The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!! MAGA

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.

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.

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.

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Live Updates: Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police

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.

Good to see this from @aflcio.org

Trump administration weighs new coal sales from public lands in Montana and Wyoming Federal officials are considering reopening vast areas of public lands in Wyoming and Montana to new coal sales.

In the west, we value our public lands as our birthright. In Wyoming, in Colorado, in Montana, in Idaho and nationwide thousands of people are turning out to say “you will not sell off our public lands!”