Chesapeake Climate Action Network
Location: Takoma Park, MD
This year, the Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN), along with the Maryland Climate Coalition, is working on a campaign to increase Maryland’s RPS (Renewable Portfolio Standard), the state’s requirement for utilities to garner their energy from renewable sources like wind and solar. It is the best time to make an direct impact on climate policy in Maryland as you will play a vital role in getting this legislation passed in Annapolis during the 2018 legislative session beginning mid-January. This summer, we look forward to more exciting campaign events.
Take part in this visionary campaign to pass legislation that dramatically reduces climate change pollution in Maryland, while cleaning up our air, improving the health of our communities, and creating good-paying new jobs.
The campaign is called the Clean Energy Jobs Campaign and the primary components are below:
- Increasing Maryland’s RPS law for electricity to 50% renewable energy by 2030, which will bring 20,000 clean energy jobs to Maryland.
- Investing in clean-energy workforce development while targeting economically distressed parts of the state and individuals who have historically experienced barriers to employment
- Making more funding available for investment capital and loans to help minorities, veterans and women grow within the clean energy economy
- Phasing out incentives for the incineration of trash under Maryland’s current RPS law for renewable power
Duties:
- Learn to organize campaign events and creative actions
- Help conduct outreach, including tabling at events, phone banking, business canvassing, collecting petitions, presenting at meetings
- Help recruit new volunteers to the campaign
- Write and publish your own letters to the editor
- Conduct campaign research and assist in drafting campaign materials
- Support constituent lobby meetings with elected officials and legislators, including coordinating with elected officials and legislators, organizing and attending/leading lobby meetings
- Learn grassroots campaigning from an organization that climate activist Bill McKibben called the “best regional climate organization in the world.”
Qualifications:
- A driving passion to enact structural change to address the causes of climate change and win An eagerness to learn new advocacy and organizing skills and put them to work right away
- A willingness to work hard
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Hours and Dates:
Interns will work 15-20 hours a week from late May to early August. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, applying now is still permitted.
To Apply:
Fill out the following Google Form - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSebMZPr45C2oPw_AmER-wVuYDnkcgEaYGlEpvPeN1ptQxKbiA/viewform