Lobby team members (L to R) Matt Swanson and Katy Garmany, and Mary Stout (far right) pause for a photo with Congresswoman Adelia Grijalva after a successful meeting Aug 4.

Welcome!

This is the website for the Greater Tucson chapter of Citizen’s Climate Lobby. Our local chapter is involved in a number of activities, including grassroots outreach at public events, engaging community leaders, organizing public presentations on climate change, communications with the media, and direct meetings with candidates for, and elected representatives to, local, state, and national offices.

Here you can find out more about us, find out where and when we meet, get information about special events, and get details on how to contact us.

Special Announcements and News

BAAJA Arizona!

After years of persistent advocacy by CCL and others, a comprehensive permitting reform package has officially been introduced in the Senate!

The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA) includes provisions that:

  • Make it possible to build clean energy faster.
  • Add to America’s transmission capacity.
  • Provide the certainty that clean energy developers need to plan and move forward on their projects with confidence.

In order to meaningfully reduce emissions and address climate change, America has to update our permitting processes so we can build and connect clean energy faster. This bill makes that possible.

To find out more about BAAJA and to ask Senators Kelly and Gallego to vote in favor, click here or set your browser to go to:
https://citizensclimatelobby.org/get-loud-take-action/baaja/

When you have written, make sure to tell your friends and ask them to write as well. CCL is looking to send 10,000 letters to the Senate before they reconvene after the election.

Download Slides for the October 10 Meeting

Want to get a URL or just reexamine a slide from the October 10 meeting? You can do that! Just click here to download the PDF or put this URL in your browser

http://tucsonccl.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/10Oct_2026slides.pdf

Next Meeting is at 10 PM, Saturday, October 10 at the Martha Cooper Library

Join us at 10 AM at the Martha Cooper Library for friends, food,
and a conversation about how to move forward on climate policy!
We will have a conversation about important areas for climate activism, and the role we can play in Local, State, and National policy debate.  

We will start with an important speaker via Zoom, Sara Peach, the Editor-in-Chief of Yale Climate Connections will be speaking.

In addition, there will undoubtedly be discussion about the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA). (See discussion above.)

Also help out a local drive to collect old electronics for reuse or recycling. Read below for more details. PLEASE BRING YOUR USED TECH TO THE TUCSON CCL MEETING ON OCTOBER 10, 2026.

Everyone is invited to bring something tasty to share!

Martha Cooper Library
1377 N Catalina Ave
Tucson, AZ 85712

Watch the Webinar of Candidates for Arizona Corporation Commission

Clara Pratte and Jonathon Hill, candidates for Arizona Corporation Commission, spoke to CCL and interested guests on July 13, 2026. You can watch the entire 90 minute discussion here on YouTube or direct your browser to:

https://youtu.be/qpPVHwHn54g

Book Club Monday, October 12

The next book club is meeting on October 12, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom. The book for discussion is:  End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor.

To join the Zoom discussion, click here or set your browser to go to:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83894297480?pwd=R2cg4G8gfC3gCVPR9pFyKZxig6mLZI.1

Help Local Students in a Tech Drive

A student-led community tech drive is taking place to provide low-cost or donated refurbished tech to those in need, or to properly dispose of or recycle tech products that no longer serve a purpose. If you have any devices, including laptops, phones, tablets, chargers, and other small electronics you no longer use, consider donating them to the cause. We accept working and non-working devices. Devices will either be refurbished if possible, used for parts of future repairs, or properly recycled. 

If you have questions, contact them at techreachaz@gmail.com

National Conference Photos

If you would like to review some photos of the National Conference and our student scholars in action, you can do that here. One of our key asks was for a permitting reform package. Read more about BAAJA at the top of the page.