Announcements
Labor-Backed Report on Path to Equitable Green California
Nineteen labor organizations -- including unions representing refinery workers in Northern and Southern California and the Alameda Labor Council -- have endorsed a detailed plan for an equitable transition to a clean-energy economy in … Read full article
Speak Up for California Green New Deal Budget Priorities, Now
As state budget negotiations heat up, join the California Green New Deal Coalition in advocating for its two state budget priorities: Funding for community resilience hubs and for creating a state Office of Racial Equity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … Read full article
Summer Solstice Line 3 Action, June 21
One of the obligations of the Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty Compact of 2015 is to conduct a nonviolent direct action each solstice and equinox. The chosen action for this summer solstice is a campaign to send 1,000 … Read full article
Climate Leadership, A Local Government Perspective, June 21
A panel of local elected officials at this 350 Contra Costa June meeting will talk about their approach to advancing climate and environmental justice policies. Moderated by Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia. What constraints do they … Read full article
Youth vs. Apocalypse Movement Art Celebration, June 26
Join Youth vs. Apocalypse in a Movement Art Celebration to create art for future actions, create movement swag, shoot a music video, protest, practice resilience and more. Youth Vs. Apocalypse is a diverse group of young climate justice activists … Read full article
Ecology Center Plastic Free July, July 1 – 31
Join the Ecology Center for Plastic Free July, a month of education and activism against the fossil fuel industry's current strategy of flooding the world with toxic plastic production. Plastic Free July will include a series of events for … Read full article
Comment on Draft CalGEM Well Stimulation Rule, by July 4
Our state's oil and gas agency, the Department of Conservation's Geologic Energy Management Division (CalGEM), is asking for public input on its pre-rulemaking draft regulation that ends permitting for hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in … Read full article
BAAQMD Refinery PM Regulation Vote, July 21
Update: After an hour of staff presentations, questions from the Board of Directors, and 5 1/2 hours of impassioned public testimony, the Board lost its quorum and the clock ran out on the scheduled June vote on BAAQMD's Rule 6-5. It has been … Read full article
Support Resistance to Plastics Plant in “Cancer Alley”
Take action and donate to support the courageous community fighting the construction of a massive plastic factory on the banks of the Mississippi River in St. James, Louisiana. This African-American community has already been sickened by … Read full article
Support the Uprising to Stop the Line 3 Pipeline
More than 1,000 Indigenous leaders and climate activists gathered in Minnesota June 5 - 8 to stop Line 3 pipeline construction. Nearly 200 people were arrested June 7 for taking direct action to stop this long-distance tar sands pipeline, which … Read full article
NuStar Fire Investigation Report Released
A long-anticipated report about the massive October 15, 2019 NuStar tank farm fire has finally been released, a full eighteen months after the catastrophe. It confirms what many of us suspected—and more. Not only did we dodge an even bigger … 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