Members of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby stand on the Capitol steps during a trip in 2019, in which Bruce Cooper, of Cranberry Township, participated. Submitted photo

A little under 1,000 people attended a biannual Climate Lobbying Reboot conference in Washington, D.C., last week, including 80-year-old Cranberry Township resident Bruce Cooper, who has been pushing for climate-conscious legislation since 2017.

Bruce Cooper has been heading up the Slippery Rock Chapter of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby since 2017, and said he took part in a few meetings with representatives during the conference, which took place from June 10 to 13.

“I think it was a productive time. … I heard that there were over 400 meetings,” Cooper said. “We had lobby meetings until about 5 p.m. I was in a meeting with Susan Wild (D-Pa), from Lehigh Valley and a meeting with the environment energy aid in Rep. Mike Kelly's (R-16th) office.”