Announcements
Army Corps Scraps Plans to Dredge for Oil Tankers!
In a huge victory for the health of the Bay, our communities, and the climate, the US Army Corps of Engineers has dropped its plan to dig deeper shipping channels in the Carquinez Strait. The plan was explicitly intended to make it cheaper to ship … Read full article
Letter to Contra Costa on Just Transition from Fossil Fuels
Just weeks after Contra Costa County’s Board of Supervisors declared a climate emergency, a diverse group of environmental, labor, and public health advocates sent a letter to the Board calling for a planned and equitable transition away from fossil … Read full article
Workers and Just Transition: A Global View, December 5
Worldwide transitions deserve a worldwide response! An exciting webinar produced by the Labor Network for Sustainability and the Just Transition Listening Project Organizing Committee will bring together labor and policy leaders to share … Read full article
Sunflower Alliance Zoom Meeting, December 6
We're looking forward to getting together with you for our regular meeting. We'll discuss the latest developments in the campaigns we're participating in: fighting local fossil fuel expansion, coal exports, and refinery pollution. And local work to … Read full article
Indigenous People and Environmental Justice: Confronting the Last Uranium Mill, December 9
At this virtual National Town Hall, learn about the White Mesa Ute Community and Ute Mountain Ute Tribe's struggle against the last conventional uranium mill in the U.S. Located just three miles from the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe's White Mesa … Read full article
Concert: Georgia Voices for a Blue Senate, December 13
The climate justice organization, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations, is hosting an online fundraising concert to benefit the Georgia voting rights organization Fair Fight and the senatorial campaigns of Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon … Read full article
Weigh in on Environmental Justice in Contra Costa County, Now through February
Envision Contra Costa 2040 is a plan for a safe, healthy, equitable, and sustainable future for all communities in the county. Communities of color, indigenous people, low-income families, and immigrants should not face disproportionate … Read full article
Powerful Video: Growing Up Next to an Oil Well
Check out this new, powerful environmental justice resource: a New York Times video oped, "Living Near Drilling is Deadly: Why Don't Lawmakers Care?" In the video, Josiah Edwards describes growing up in L. A County as "a black kid with asthma," … Read full article
Stop New Oil and Gas Drilling in East Contra Costa
When we think of the fossil fuel industry in Contra Costa County, what probably comes to mind is coal export (Richmond) or oil refining (Richmond and the rest of the county). Contra Costa County hosts four of the five Bay Area refineries that make … Read full article
Decommissioning California Refineries: Climate and Health Paths in an Oil State
Decommissioning California Refineries: Climate and Health Paths in an Oil State is required reading for anyone who's working for a just transition to a renewable, equitable future beyond fossil fuels. California is the center of oil refining in … Read full article
Tell Biden: We Demand Immediate Bold Climate Action
Join 350.org in putting as much pressure as possible on Biden to use the full power of the Presidency in his first 100 days to combat the climate crisis. 350.org says "Our job between now and Inauguration Day is clear. Our climate can’t wait, so … Read full article
Biofuel, A False Solution — Resources
Bay Area refineries Phillips 66 and Marathon, and the oil industry as a whole, have come up with a new strategy for refining biofuel as a way to spike COVID-weakened profits and assure their longevity. But promoting biofuel as an enlightened, … Read full article
A Just Transition for Labor: What Will It Take?
Tens of thousands of workers have jobs in fossil fuel and related industries. How do we secure a just transition that guarantees good jobs with benefits for these workers in a new clean energy economy? In this essential webinar presented by The … Read full article
The USW and Just Transition in the California Oil Fields
Oil companies should pay for plugging their abandoned wells. Not only is this well remediation badly needed, but it will also "provide tremendous health and environmental benefits to frontline communities, and advance a just transition away from … Read full article
Legal Grounds for Facilitating a Phase-Out of Fossil Fuel Production in California
A groundbreaking April 2020 report from UC Berkeley's Center for Law, Energy and the Environment comes at a unique moment in the history of in-state oil and gas production. Legal Grounds: Law and Policy Options to Facilitate a Phase-Out of Fossil … Read full article