The California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) and Air Resources Board (ARB) staff invite you to participate in a community meeting and webinar to discuss use of Cap-and-Trade auction proceeds to fund projects that reduce greenhouse gases in … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2017
Next Steps to Save Alameda County Water from Big Oil, Jan 31
Stop Big Oil from sacrificing Alameda County's water! Come meet with interested activists who are continuing the fight against the dangerous pollution of the Greenville Sands Aquifer in Livermore. We'll be discussing the next steps we can take, … [Read more...]
Sunflower Alliance General Assembly, Feb 5
Bob Allen of Urban Habitat will discuss the "6 Wins" campaign -- working to make sure that regional planning in the Bay Area promotes equity in housing, transportation, jobs, land use, and the environment. Plus updates on our campaigns. We need your … [Read more...]
No Coal in Oakland Speaks Out Against Tagami’s Lawsuit, Jan 30
Stand with No Coal in Oakland at a press conference to launch a grassroots campaign demanding that developer Phil Tagami drop his lawsuit against the city for banning a coal export terminal. Monday, Jan 30, is the day the city's response to the … [Read more...]
An Evening with the Valve Turners, Feb 10
If We Are Willing: How We Can Stop Disaster offers a local opportunity to hear personal testimony from the Valve Turners, the five courageous climate activists who shut down five separate pipelines in Washington, Minnesota, Montana and North Dakota … [Read more...]
Join Bay Resistance Network Against Trump
You’re invited to join Bay Resistance, a network of organizations and individuals from the labor, Black Lives Matter, housing rights, immigrant rights, women's, LGBTQ, and environmental justice movements. Member organizations will use this network to … [Read more...]
Live Web Chat with DeChristopher and the Valve Turners, Jan 29
After watching a parade of administration nominees deny the reality of looming climate catastrophe, we have finally seen the new fossil fuel administration inaugurated in DC. It seems like a watershed moment, when the climate movement needs to … [Read more...]
Save the Livermore Aquifer from Oil Wastewater, Jan 25
E & B Natural Resources, which operates a dozen oil wells outside of Livermore, has applied for an exemption to allow it to inject oilfield wastewater into the Livermore (Greenville Sands) Aquifer. If state regulators and the federal EPA let … [Read more...]
East Bay Community Energy Authority Board, Jan 30
Local Clean Energy Alliance (LCEA) invites you to participate in the very first meeting of the governing body of East Bay Community Energy, Alameda County’s new Community Choice energy program. It is up to all of us to hold the new board members … [Read more...]
BAAQMD Posts 2017 Clean Air Plan
The Air District's draft 2017 Clean Air Plan (PDF) is currently available for review. The plan serves as a call to action to "Spare the Air and Cool the Climate." The Air District's stated aim is "to lead the region to a post-carbon economy, to … [Read more...]
Refinery Town Book Event, Feb 2
Come hear Steve Early talk about his new book on the politics of Richmond, Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City. Early, who moved to Richmond from New England in 2012, chronicles the ten years of successful … [Read more...]