Wayne Citizens’ Climate Lobby meets with Max Miller
A group of Wayne County Citizens’ Climate Lobby members traveled to the Medina District 7 office of Congressman Max Miller recently to deliver citizens’ letters regarding concerns about climate change.
Recently, a group of Wayne County Citizens’ Climate Lobby members traveled to the Medina District 7 office of Congressman Max Miller. The group delivered citizens’ letters regarding concerns about climate change.
Citizens’ Climate Lobby is a nonpartisan, grassroots group with chapters worldwide. The nonprofit organization’s mission is to empower people to work together on climate policy by building support in Congress for a national bipartisan solution to climate change.
“Citizens’ Climate Lobby works toward lowering carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions, which are causing climate change, in order to secure a safe and just world for all people,” said Juli Douglass-Gillespie, a group leader and liaison for the local chapter. “We believe that our democracy provides us with the tools to work with each other and our elected officials in order to accomplish this.”
Along with other members of the Wooster chapter’s lobby team and a College of Wooster student, they delivered 120 letters from Wayne County voters.
Douglass-Gillespie said during the visit with the congressman’s representative, they discussed how the letters expressed people’s personal concerns about climate change. Several of the letters were read aloud. Additionally, they expressed thanks for Miller’s work on the Farm to Fly bill and also the IMPACT Act.
The letter delivery was part of a national Citizens’ Climate Lobby project. All over the country, chapters delivered letters from constituents detailing climate concerns to their Congress members.
The local letters were varied in the environmental issues they raised. “Many people are worried about how climate change will affect the future for their families and community,” Douglass-Gillespie said.
Some described the increase and severity of weather events including the impact of these events on lower-income households that are often most affected. Other letters expressed the need to promote cleaner forms of energy like wind, solar and geothermal and asked government officials to take swift action via laws to help address and mitigate the problems.
The local lobby team has previously met twice with the representative’s legislative aide in his Washington, D.C. office to discuss specific climate legislation.
For more information visit https://citizensclimatelobby.org/. New members are welcome and may sign up for free on the website. The local chapter will have a table at the Scarlet, Gray and Green Fair on Saturday, April 20 at CFAES, formerly OARDC.
“We believe that the 120 letters we received are indicative of a much larger group of constituents in District 7 who are aware of the dangers of climate change and are asking for real change in the status quo,” Douglass-Gillespie said. “That’s why we appealed to our congressman to carry the message from his district back to Washington, D.C.”