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AUVs and Artificial Reefs: The Game-Changer for Ocean Health and Sustainability
(March 20, 2025) The overuse of ocean resources is causing significant environmental damage, threatening marine ecosystems worldwide. Emerging technologies like Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are helping monitor and protect artificial reefs, offering hope for the restoration and preservation of these vital ecosystems.
Change The Chamber Condemns Attempts to Roll Back EPA Climate and Public Health Protections
(March 14, 2025) The young adults and student groups of Change the Chamber are appalled by the Trump Administration’s recent attempts to slash critical environmental and public health protections within the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The Transformative Role of Indigenous Knowledge in Healing River Ecosystems
(March 13, 2025) Today, thousands of Indigenous people “are caring for the land and are powerful leaders advocating for clean water and healthy, free-flowing rivers.”
Change the Chamber Urges Senate to Pursue Funding That Protects Communities
(March 13, 2025) A government shutdown is not an ideal outcome, but passing a CR that ignores the urgent need for climate action and government accountability would be an even greater harm to the American people.
Change the Chamber Statement on President Trump’s Joint Address to the U.S. Congress
(March 5, 2025) Change the Chamber strongly condemns the administration’s blatant assault on clean energy, environmental justice, and critical climate investments—actions that threaten to set our country on a dangerous path.
Wildlife and Wind: Fact Checking America’s Wind Industry
(March 3, 2025) Wind power accounts for more than 10 percent of the electricity generated in the U.S., supporting both the environment and job creation in the green energy sector. Despite misinformation suggesting otherwise, studies confirm that offshore wind energy is a dependable resource that poses no real threat to marine wildlife and can even help enhance ocean habitats.
Change the Chamber Condemns Recommendation to Strike Down EPA’s Endangerment Finding
(February 28, 2025) Change the Chamber urges policymakers to reject this dangerous rollback and instead advance solutions that protect public health, support economic growth, and ensure a sustainable future for all.
Ecocide in Gaza: Environmental Impacts of War
(February 27, 2025) Beyond the direct human toll of the war, this conflict is causing disastrous environmental conditions, including many conditions that cannot be reversed.
Change the Chamber Expresses Deep Concern Over Proposed Cuts in Budget Resolutions
(February 26, 2025) The Senate budget resolution passed last week and the House budget resolution approved yesterday would severely undermine efforts to protect public health, build climate resilience, and transition to a clean energy economy.
Artificial Intelligence: A Sustainable Future or An Unsustainable Burden
(February 20, 2025) AI could be used in many ways to benefit us all, but without regulation and a focus on sustainable improvement, the damage AI will create will be detrimental.
Unsung Heroes: California’s Inmate Firefighters
(February 16, 2025) California’s state network of first responders includes over two thousand inmate firefighters who frequently put themselves in harm’s way to fight ever-increasing wildfires. These inmate firefighters are severely underpaid, and face a disproportionately dangerous job compared to civilian firefighters.
CTC Statement On EPA Cuts
(February 6, 2025) As climate issues indiscriminately wreak havoc across all fifty states, the impacts of this decision will be detrimental to all Americans, especially to frontline communities that experience some of the highest rates of pollution and climate damages in the country.
Naming Justice: The Movement to Replace Harmful Place Names in South Dakota
(January 22, 2025) Across the country, thousands of harmful and inaccurate place names identify our outdoor spaces and geographic regions, often bearing terms used to degrade minority groups.
CTC Statement on Announced Executive Actions Affecting Climate and the Environment
(January 20, 2025) Change the Chamber is deeply disappointed in the announcement of executive actions taken today by the Trump administration that weaken our nation’s progress on climate, sustainability, and environmental protection.
Redefining Business with Purpose: How Policy Can Unlock the Potential of Social Enterprise
(December 18, 2024) By creating government infrastructure and tailored policies that define, fund, support, and enable the next generation of social entrepreneurs, we can not only continue building more inclusive and sustainable socio-economic systems, but redefine the role of business as an agent of social change in our society.