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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

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

Climate Change and Militarism, October 26

Want to understand the relationship between climate change and militarism? Join a webinar led by Gary Butterfield of Veterans for Peace, who will speak about their Climate Crisis and Militarism Project. He'll focus on: The carbon bootprint of … Read full article

Divest From Fossil Fuel! Victories and Next Steps, October 26

Join the Youth Climate Finance Movement and a global coalition of organizations to hear about a historic slate of new groundbreaking divest/invest commitments and a new report on the state of the divest/invest movement, including an update of assets … 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

Bay Area March for COP 26, November 6

Join 350 Bay Area and Extinction Rebellion to keep up the pressure during the UN Climate Summit in Glasgow. Organizers say: "Our future is on the line, and we are mobilizing to demand action that centers people not fossil fuel billionaires. This … 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

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