2023 is coming to a close, and we’re taking a moment to celebrate all of the incredible work PCFO Communities and partners have accomplished this year! Here are a few of our favorite highlights: 🧵#LocalsLeadTheWay
Proud of @OECActionFund team for mobilizing around this and opposing quickly, with less than 48 hrs notice. We're going to ensure everyone knows this was a vote to raise Ohioans' utility bills to pay for gas lines to private corporations' offices.
After 3 years and lots of support from our partners & champions, we’re establishing PCFO as a nonprofit! We’re excited to announce our Board of Directors, who will support our work with PCFO communities & expand our reach across Ohio. https://t.co/vdH6VezQAj #LocalsLeadTheWay
A fun and energizing day with @chrisronayne and Cuyahoga County mayors talking about the climate challenge and opportunities in the IRA! Thank you @GrowthOpps for hosting us & leading on green bank financing and Ohio’s energy transition! #LocalsLeadtheWay
Great to be with more than a dozen Cuyahoga County Mayors today who have signed on to Power A Clean Future Ohio. Forward together for a #HealthyCuyahoga
Been a busy three years! Ohio local leaders are stepping up and taking on the climate and energy challenges facing our state. So much more ahead!
📸 Brooklyn landfill solar project tour
It’s our birthday! We officially launched PCFO three years ago today. Thanks to everyone who helped us grow over the past few years, and a special shout-out to the 42 PCFO Communities across Ohio who continue to prove that #LocalsLeadTheWay!
Be sure to catch the end of this clever @NASA "climate spiral" video showing monthly global temperature changes between 1880 and 2021
https://t.co/pj6Hucz2Xg
Transitioning our bus and train fleets nationwide to electric infrastructure would result in 4,200 fewer deaths PER YEAR. Let's pass #EJJA now and invest in our children's health. #JobsAndJustice https://t.co/JhoyEDJyin
As students across Ohio head back to school, many will be riding in buses that spew toxic pollution throughout their neighborhoods. Our young people deserve better. Let’s pass #EJJA and kickstart our transition to electric school buses! #JobsAndJustice
Moments ago, the #InflationReductionAct officially became law! Here’s what it means for Ohio, and why we believe this is another great reason for your community to join PCFO (if you haven’t already!). 🧵 #LocalsLeadTheWay
Pretty awesome to see our report on the costs of climate change to local governments featured in the Senate Banking Committee. Even better to see my friend @joeflarida give amazing testimony and speak truth to power.
Thank you @SenSherrodBrown & members of @SenateBanking for the opportunity to share Ohio’s voice on the costs we face with #climatechange. We cannot afford to ignore the climate challenge any longer. We must act now.
It's been a couple of weeks since we released our new report with @OhioEnviro, "#TheBillsComingDue". We're excited to share our findings with @SenateBanking in Washington, D.C. tomorrow! But first, here is some great news coverage we'd like to share with you. 🧵 #LocalsLeadTheWay
PCFO is going to Washington! This Thursday at 10am, our very own @joeflarida will testify in front of a Senate Committee about our new report, “Borrowed Time: The Economic Costs of Climate Change.” Learn more and watch the livestream! https://t.co/HgNAeJvmTb #LocalsLeadTheWay
Finally the headline we were hoping for when we named the report!
If the public health, environmental, agricultural, migration impacts or any of the other climate impacts we are *currently* experiencing don’t wake people, maybe the dollars and cents will?
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Ohio’s cash-strapped cities and towns are going to need to find billions more a year to keep pace as challenges from climate change intensify over the coming decades, according to a new analysis.
By @martyschladen
https://t.co/ohpZy8q3Gu