Citizens Climate lobby Roscommon/Crawford Chapter

                                                              Roscommon/Crawford Chapter Merry Christmas   As winter begins to again cover our fields and forests with a white blanket, your friends at the Roscommon/Crawford Chapter of Citizens Climate Lobby want to wish you a Merry Christmas. We are anxiously awaiting 2021 and its promise of newness: a vaccine for COVID for everyone, a new administration for our federal government, and the near certainty of more effective treatments for the ills created by increasing air pollution from carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. We think now is the time for an outpouring of ideas for local action to dovetail with expected federal programs that will slow down continued air pollution and set the stage for eventually cleaning our atmosphere to return it to its more pristine state. The overall map for action is clear; we need to reduce the stranglehold that the fossil fuel industry has on our transportation and power generation sectors

                                                   Roscommon/Crawford Chapter Biden Plan for Fixing Climate Change   Now that we have fired the old President, we can expect the incoming Biden/Harris Administration to take immediate and aggressive action in fixing climate change, unlike the former administration whose work on climate reminds of those sailors who re-arranged the deck chairs on the Titanic. Here is a summary of the Biden action plan for fixing climate change. John Kerry has been named as special envoy for climate protection and a standing member of the U.S. National Security Council, responsible for global climate leadership as the United States resumes its former role   encouraging world-wide cooperation in reducing air pollution. It is expected that Biden will name other men and women to additional climate leadership jobs in his Administration. Stated goals of the new Administration are the following as indicated in the published Biden plan:      1.