Citizens' Climate Lobby

In this question and answer period, CCL’s Program Director Madeleine Para, Portland chapter leader Tamara Staton, and Salt Lake City chapter leader Dave Folland answer questions from leaders of large chapters.

In this lesson, CCL’s Program Director Madeleine Para, Portland chapter leader Tamara Staton, and Salt Lake City chapter leader Dave Folland share ideas and tips on leading large volunteer chapters.

Our guest speaker at our January meeting is Hahrie Han. Han is the Anton Vonk Associate Professor of Environmental Politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She specializes in the politics of environmental and social policy, focusing particularly on the role that civic associations play in mobilizing participation in politics and policy advocacy.

In this lesson, CCL’s Program Director Madeleine Para and leaders of small chapters share ideas and tips on leading small chapters.  

The #1 topic Congressional Offices in June 2015 was the dividend part of Carbon Fee and Dividend. Mostly, these were questions, and most urgently, staffers and MOCs wanted to know how would the dividend work? To answer such issues, CCL commissioned Allen Lerman, who worked for over 40 years at the US Treasury department. Lerman coordinated and supervised the implementation of the 2003 and 2008 tax rebate programs for individual taxpayers on behalf of Treasury, and designed the withholding changes used to pay the 2009-­2010 Making Work Pay credit on a current basis. In short, he is probably the most qualified person in the country for figuring out how to get a dividend to as many Americans as possible.