Take action on climate in Colorado!
Stop by here anytime for a list of upcoming key action opportunities, including tabling, public comment sessions, testifying at hearings, and growing the climate movement. One of the most important things you can do is to make your voice heard. Please speak up for strong climate leadership!
*Please visit our online calendar for details on all of our events this month, including monthly committee meetings, additional events hosted by 350 Colorado, and upcoming trainings.
–> In-Person Events
- Help grow the number of interconnected activists – table with us! No experience necessary, we have materials and things to help people feel confident and prepared in the role. Just email Chelsea at chelsea@350colorado.org to grab a shift!
- Boulder area opportunities:
- Sunday, June 8th – 10:30am-1:30pm or 1:30pm-5:30pm – Boulder Jewish Festival
- Boulder area opportunities:
–> Upcoming Hearings & Public Comment Opportunities
- Xcel has claimed they need to replace the Pueblo Unit 3 coal plant with 3x as much energy capacity. We need your help to ensure they provide those needs with 100% Renewable Energy!
- Sign up to give written or oral comment on Xcel’s Just Transition Plan using this toolkit. (scroll down to the end of the toolkit for in-person and virtual comment opportunities)
- CDPHE Ozone Meetings – The CDPHE Air Pollution Control Division is holding public meetings in May, and June addressing ground-level ozone pollution. These meetings leading up to a formal hearing by the Air Quality Control Commission on proposed updates to Colorado’s State Implementation Plan (SIP). The SIP is required because the Front Range is in “severe” nonattainment for the 2015 ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard. That means the air in this region is frequently unsafe for human health, and one of the largest contributors to the problem is oil and gas extraction operations.
–> Join an upcoming public meeting to learn more and share your thoughts on ozone pollution reduction efforts.
- CDOT is looking for feedback on how to allocate transportation funding, including funding for sustainable transportation – In 2024, CDOT’s leadership set ambitious goals to improve safety for all road users, including pedestrians and cyclists, reduce transportation emissions, expand transportation options beyond just driving by investing in transit and prioritizing “fix it first” projects that maintain and repair our existing system before adding new lanes to our highways. Now is the time to hold CDOT accountable by aligning the state’s transportation budget with our climate goals by advocating for sustainable transportation projects and funding! Please fill out this survey below and share it far and wide with your networks, friends, and family:
–> Complete CDOT’s Community Feedback Survey here
–> Talking points with background for context (also with survey link!)
This is an important window of opportunity to advocate for clean transportation to help us meet our state’s climate, equity, and economic goals – let’s do this!
–> Ongoing Hybrid Opportunities
- Become a Leadership Council member on your local team!
The Denver, Colorado Springs, Boulder, Roaring Fork, and Northern Colorado teams are looking for a handful of members to join their Leadership Councils. LCs are the people that work closely with other organizers in their area, and the Team Coordinator, to win local campaigns, grow the climate movement, and create more resilient, empowered communities. Apply here today!
- No specific experience needed, no minimum age required – we’ll provide a short onboarding training and support in getting started!
- General tasks include light event planning, campaign management, strategic planning, and some fundraising
- ~5 hours a month preferred
Questions? Email Chelsea at chelsea@350colorado.org
- Become a ZIP Leader (“Zoning Interpersonal Power”) for your community.
As a ZIP Leader, you’ll be a part of Colorado’s largest grassroots movement dedicated to solving the climate crisis! The overall objective is not for you to solve the climate crisis alone, but for you to build & empower a community working toward climate solutions!
Anticipated tasks involved:
- Communicate actions, events, and opportunities relevant to the zip code to other activists in the area
- Organize and/or participate in events and actions within the zip code to connect activists
- Share events, actions, or needs in the zip code to 350CO teammates as needed
- Cultivate relationships with activists, community leaders representatives, and policymakers in the zip code
- Recruitment of activists within the zip code
For more information, check out the position description. If you’re ready to get started, fill out the ZIP Leader Interest Form and we’ll be in contact soon!
Questions? Email Chelsea at chelsea@350colorado.org
–> Online Actions
- Welcome Call for Activists & Volunteers
When: Thursday, May 22nd from 6-6:30pm
Where: on Zoom – RSVP here for the link!
What: For anyone who is interested in learning more about volunteer opportunities and campaigns, being supported in first steps in your activism, having questions answered, or looking to make connections with others, this is a great and casual call to join! Questions? Email chelsea@350colorado.org
- Send a message to your legislators and Governor Polis – It’s Time to Rein in New Oil & Gas Fracking Permits!
During this 2025 Legislative Session, let’s keep calling on our state leaders for meaningful action, because Colorado is not on track to meet our climate, air quality or environmental justice goals. We need a rapid, just transition off fossil fuels to a clean energy future and to end permitting for new oil and gas wells, because drilling and fracking are causing major harm to our health, climate, air, and water resources.
Asking them to sign this open letter supporting a phase out of permitting for oil and gas wells by 2030 and a just transition to a clean renewable energy future and to speak out against more fracking permits in our local communities will help shift the status quo!
–> Send message to legislators and Governor Polis!
- Tell the ECMC: Fully Investigate, Disclose, and Enforce Against Oil & Gas Data Falsification
In July 2024, the Colorado Energy & Carbon Management Commission (“ECMC”) received information regarding an issue of data falsification related to oil and gas clean up reports. Eventually, it was revealed that two environmental consultant firms had submitted falsified data regarding approximately 350 oil and gas locations in Weld County on behalf of Colorado’s three largest oil and gas extractors: Chevron U.S.A. Inc., Civitas Resources Inc., and Occidental Petroleum.
The ECMC must respond swiftly and strongly in order to protect impacted Coloradans and our environment, and to send a clear message that data falsification is not tolerated in Colorado. We need your voices to hold them accountable. Take 1 minute to send the one click letter below to the members of the ECMC!
–> Send one click letter to ECMC
Questions? Email Bobbie at bobbie@350colorado.org
- Write a Letter to the Editor (LTE) or OpEd about the fact that many oil and gas wells do not generate enough money to plug their wells.
From the Colorado Sun: “Profitable oil and gas production in Colorado is increasingly concentrated in a few basins leaving the rest of the operations with few resources and posing risk to getting all 47,000 of the state’s active wells plugged and remediated, according to a report from Carbon Tracker.
At least 27,000 wells — more than half the state tally — don’t generate enough cash to pay for their eventual plugging and site remediation, the report by the nonprofit think tank focused on climate and finance.”
This leaves taxpayers holding the bag for oil and gas well cleanup. Not to mention the pollution and habitat destruction created by these wells!
Everything you need:
More online actions to take
- Sign the Open Letter of Support to Phase-out New Oil & Gas Permits! Oil & Gas fracking is the #1 source of climate pollution and ozone air pollution in Colorado. To meet Colorado’s environmental justice and climate goals, we must phase out new fracking and support a fast and fair transition to a renewable energy economy. Sign the Open Letter to join the movement lead by the Safe & Healthy Colorado Coalition!
- Sign the petition to Agriculture Secretary Vilsack demanding that he cancel the Uinta Basin Railway.
- Watch and share this video on social media to learn how oil and gas fracking is fueling the flames for more intense wildfires in Colorado
- Support Nuclear-Free Pueblo from anywhere!
- Sign this petition by GreenLatinos asking Weld County to stop line 1 and put community health and safety over a pipeline expansion project
- We are excited to announce a new toolkit completed in partnership with Boulder County, titled From Dollars to Decarbonization: A Local Government Blueprint for Fossil Free Finance. This toolkit is a resource for local governments to decarbonize their finances in four key areas: Pensions, Insurance, Banking, and Fossil Fuel Divestment. We’re looking for constituents to reach out to their city and county governments to share this toolkit, and to support their governments in taking the steps outlined in this toolkit. We’re happy to give presentations and offer consultation to governments that are interested in taking these steps!
- Sign the Fossil Free CU Petition Here and the Divest CSU Petition here to support local university divestment work! New to divestment & defunding climate disaster? Learn more about how critical divestment work is in the context of the climate crisis.