Join us to hear updates and participate in discussion about our current campaigns and future plans. We need your participation and your voice. Newcomers welcome! WHEN Sunday, July 9, 1 - 3 PM WHERE Bobby Bowens Progressive Center 2540 Macdonald … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2017
Legislators: Don’t Let Big Oil Dictate Our Climate Laws
Governor Brown has spent the last two months in secret conferences with oil industry lawyers, writing up Big Oil’s wish list for amending California's Cap-and-Trade program. Please send letters warning your State Senator and Assembly Member not … [Read more...]
Updated: Monitor Pollution in Refinery Communities in Real Time
Air Watch Bay Area is an online, interactive tool that allows you to see current data on air pollution in Richmond, Crockett, Rodeo, and Benicia. You can also sign up for daily air quality alerts or use the website (or a downloadable app) to report … [Read more...]
Animals Against Extinction Banner-Making Party, July 8
Animals Against Extinction, the graphics wing of Sunflower Alliance, has launched a bannering campaign over East Bay freeways to give our Bay Area Resistance a little more visibility. Come join them at a banner-making party and bring your best ideas … [Read more...]
Naomi Klein: No Is Not Enough, June 20
Come hear Naomi Klein discuss her new book, NO IS NOT ENOUGH, with Black Lives Matter founder Alicia Garza. In her book, Klein explains that Trump, extreme as he is, is not an aberration but a logical extension of the worst and most dangerous trends … [Read more...]
Pollution Adds Up: Air District “Cumulative Impact” Presentation, June 19
After a decade of pressure from the Bay Area Environmental Health Collaborative, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has created a Cumulative Impact Working Group to focus on the total effects of pollution from different sources. Come to … [Read more...]
Film: Merchants of Doubt, June 18
The documentary Merchants of Doubt tells the story of how a cadre of influential scientists with extensive political connections ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established knowledge about subjects from tobacco to climate … [Read more...]
Tell the Global Insurance Industry to Unfriend Coal, June 16
We expect insurance companies to protect us from serious risks, but when it comes to climate change the insurance industry is doing the opposite: it is insuring and investing in new fossil fuel projects that directly contribute to climate … [Read more...]
P66 Marine Terminal Expansion DEIR Comments Due, Aug 28
Phillips 66 has applied for Air District permission to launch what clearly looks like yet another tar sands project. Read the Notice of Preparation here in order to tell the Air District what you think should be covered in an analysis of the … [Read more...]
Bay Area Refinery Greenhouse Gas Cap Sets Historic Precedent
The day before Trump announced the U.S. retreat from the Paris climate accord, the Board of Directors of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District made far better history of its own by advancing a greenhouse gas cap on Bay Area refineries, … [Read more...]
Project Drawdown: 100 Solutions to Climate Change, June 28
Hear a presentation of the research described in the new book by environmentalist and business leader Paul Hawken. The book, Drawdown, describes 100 solutions to the climate crisis and ranks them according to the researchers' criteria. Chad … [Read more...]