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Contra Costa: Sign Our No New Oil and Gas Drilling Petition

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/no-new-oil-and-gas-drilling-in-contra-costa/ Oil drilling in Contra Costa? Afraid so. The rigsite above just entered the scene two years ago, and if a certain wildcatter gets his way, there will be rampant … Read full article

March for Stolen Lives/Stolen Futures, October 22

Friday -- a national day of action against police brutality AND international climate strike day -- join Youth vs Apocalypse, Fossil Free California, Last Chance Alliance, and others to call for real climate justice in the lead-up to COP26 climate … Read full article

SF Federal Court Hearing on Oak Flat, October 22

The fate of Oak Flat, a sacred site in Arizona, is once again in the hands of the courts. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, located in San Francisco, is scheduled to hear the case on October 22. Activists in the Apache Stronghold will be … Read full article

Is Your Money Funding the Climate Crisis? October 24

Move your Money and help save the planet! Join 350 Contra Costa and Sustainable Contra Costa to hear a panel of experts explaining how your investments, credit cards, or bank may be financing the climate crisis. State pension funds and universities … Read full article

Just Say No to Seeno (and Tagami), October 26

Action is needed now to Stop Seeno! Help Concord progressives reverse their city council's decision to select companies owned by the notorious Seeno family as Master Developer for the Concord Naval Weapons Station Reuse Project. Discovery … Read full article

Break Free From Plastic: Act Against Extraction, October 26

Join the Break Free From Plastic (BFFP) movement in a national event to demonstrate the urgent need to address the crisis of environmental racism, the destruction of natural resources, and the climate crisis. Frontline groups and allied … Read full article

Learning About a Just Transition, October 28

Learn about the growing labor movement for a just transition away from fossil fuels, in a webinar cosponsored by the Climate Center and the Labor Network for Sustainability. Hear from: The co-authors of Workers and Communities in Transition, a … Read full article

BlackRock, Banks, and Biden: Defund Fossil Fuels, October 29

As we approach the global climate talks in Glasgow, join a global day of action against the biggest funders of climate chaos to demand that banks and finance companies like BlackRock stop funding fossil fuels. The Youth Climate Finance Alliance … 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

New Report: Chevron’s Global Destruction

We already knew it wasn't just Richmond. Now Amazon Watch has announced the release of a major new report, Chevron’s Global Destruction: Ecocide, Genocide, and Corruption. The report's author, Nan M. Greer, Ph.D., documents how Chevron, the world’s … Read full article

Carbon Capture and Storage Exposed: Key Reports

"Carbon Capture and Sequestration" sounds like it could save us—but the current massive campaign for CCS is led by fossil fuel companies. They are advocating and implementing CCS measures that would prop up and even expand carbon dioxide emissions … 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 the Money Pipeline: Join the Team

Join the team to keep up pressure on banks and insurance companies to stop funding the fossil fuel industry. Stop the Money Pipeline is a coalition of many climate justice and other progressive organizations dedicated to "holding the financial … Read full article

The NAACP on Carbon Pricing: An Equity-Based Primer on Paying to Pollute

The NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program has partnered with the Indigenous Environmental Network on an important new climate justice primer: Nuts, Bolts and Pitfalls of Carbon Pricing: An Equity-Based Primer on Paying to Pollute. Read … 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

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