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Cap and Dividend: The CLEAR Climate Solution
The cap-and-dividend CLEAR Act, introduced by Senators Maria Cantwell and Susan Collins, is simple, fair and built to last. MORE >

CCAN Blog: What's New
The CLEAR Act: A New Hope
Mike Tidwell of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network explains a bold and refreshing new perspective on how to cap carbon emissions in the United States.

Also, here’s an interesting TV interview about the bill that Mike Tidwell conducted with John Passacantando, former director of Greenpeace USA. The interview is part of a cable-access [...] MORE >

Video: CCAN’s Fifth Annual Polar Bear Plunge
On January 23, 2010 nearly 350 people gathered on a beach outside the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in Annapolis to draw attention to the climate crisis and highlight the number everyone living on this planet needs to know: 350.
Check out the video from CCAN’s 5th plunge to Keep Winter Cold below (it’s my first video). [...] MORE >

Two Days ’til We Go Swimming!
Two more days ’til the big day! The latest weather reports call for a mostly sunny day with a high around 40 degrees in Annapolis. Whatever it ends up being, we’ll be there wearing our swimming suits starting at 10:30 AM!
There’s still time to join us on Saturday for CCAN’s Fifth Annual Polar Bear Plunge. [...] MORE >

CCAN in Copenhagen: Dispatch from the future
First of all, imagine this: the people of Copenhagen, Denmark, generate one-sixth of the greenhouse gas pollution per capita as people living in Washington, D.C. One sixth! That’s the first thing you notice when you come to Copenhagen, as I have, for the international climate talks. I’m here to represent your voice as a dedicated [...] MORE >

To really save the planet, stop going green
Here’s some food for thought: Like civil rights, we need statutes not gestures. And all domestic statutes and international talks should aim for one unmovable number: 350 ppm carbon in the atmosphere. It’s the only number that matters.
As President Obama heads to Copenhagen next week for global warming talks, there’s one simple step Americans back [...] MORE >