Announcements
Bay Area Environmental Justice Summit, May 20
Join the Hip Hop Caucus for its fifth annual Environmental Justice Summit. Leading environmental organizers from communities of color in the Bay Area and beyond will come together to share experiences and discuss steps to diversify the Green … Read full article
Richmond Anti-Chevron Day Protest, May 21
Join frontline neighbors and many thousands of others around the globe for the 8th annual Global Anti-Chevron Day. Communities from Richmond to Ecuador to Myanmar will come together in advance of Chevron's annual shareholders' meeting to share … Read full article
CA Roadmap to Just Transition, May 25, 26, 27
The Newsom administration is developing a "Roadmap to Just Transition" to a "just, clean economy." Weigh in on what it should look like! The Office of Planning and Research (OPR) and the Labor and Workforce Development Agency are charged with … Read full article
The Refinery Emissions Rule Is On Its Way to a Final Vote June 2
Sign a petition to urge the Air District to finally adopt a strong protective refinery pollution rule. The BAAQMD Stationary Source Committee (SSC) voted 7-4 on March 15 to send the stricter Wet Gas Scrubber proposal for Rule 6.5*—a measure to … Read full article
Stop the Line 3 Pipeline: Ways You Can Help
Add your support to the indigenous water protectors fighting to stop Enbridge from building the disastrous Line 3 pipeline. The pipeline would carry tar sands oil through indigenous land and right under the Mississippi River. The movement to … Read full article
Tell John Kerry: Militarism and Inequity are Climate Issues
Sign on to this letter from Veterans for Peace to Biden's Climate Envoy John Kerry, telling him to include military Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions in all reporting and data on GHGs (they never should have been excluded); use his public … Read full article
Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: Resist False Solutions to Climate Change
At a time when governments around the world are rolling out climate change policies, activists and experts from North American and global climate and environmental justice groups are explaining why real climate solutions must go beyond the greening … 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
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
Chasing Carbon Unicorns: The Deception of Carbon Markets and “Net Zero”
Don't believe the Net Zero myth. Tackling the climate crisis with offsetting schemes and net zero pledges is like chasing carbon unicorns—pure fantasy. Instead, we need drastic emissions cuts to #RealZero and justice for communities … Read full article
Cap and Trade and Offsets: California’s Climate Policy at a Crossroads
Should oil refineries in California be allowed to emit extra greenhouse gases if they “offset” their effects by paying hog farmers in Iowa to reduce methane from animal waste? Or by paying landowners to promise to take better care of their trees? In … 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
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
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
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