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Richmond Coal Ordinance Passes! Here’s to a Green New Deal for the Workers at Levin-Richmond Terminal!

I am a building trades worker (retired member of Sheet Metal Workers Local 104). I spoke at the meeting in favor of the ordinance that would phase out coal and petcoke storage and shipping at Levin Terminal. I fully support Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) that our building trades unions seek, on commercial and large residential projects and including city-wide PLAs. What about a PLA with the Western States Petroleum Association? Read More....

Victory for No Coal in Richmond: How It Happened

The scrappy industrial city of Richmond took a bold step toward a fossil fuel-free future on Tuesday night when its city council passed an historic land use ordinance banning the storage and handling of coal and petroleum coke in a three-year … Read full article

Petition: Liberty Mutual: Stop Insuring Climate Destruction!

Tell insurance giant Liberty Mutual to stop insuring tar sands. As a top fossil fuel insurer with at least $8.9 billion invested in fossil fuel companies, Liberty Mutual is complicit in the destruction of waterways and sacred land. Tar sands oil … Read full article

Petition: Support the Wet’suwet’en, Defund the CoastalGas Pipeline

Support the Wet’suwet’en people fighting the construction of the TC Energy CoastalGas pipeline through their territories. Demand that Chase Bank stop funding it! And tell KKR, the investment firm planning to buy 65% of the pipeline, to change its … Read full article

Add Your Support for the People’s Bailout

Join Sunflower Alliance, the Climate Justice Alliance, 350.org, and more than 500 other environmental and social justice organizations to demand that the federal government pass a People's Bailout. The program outlines five principles for just … Read full article

Online Art Action: Protect the Bay

Check out the video showing the beautiful Spring Equinox online banner organized by Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty. More than 100 people, each with one letter, spelling out: Dear Army Corps Protect Our Bay Refuse … Read full article

Stop the Money Pipeline!

Join a growing coalition of climate groups to demand that JP Morgan Chase Bank—the biggest funder of the fossil fuel industry—stop the money pipeline and immediately divest from fossil fuels. JPMorgan Chase is by far the biggest funder of the … Read full article

POSTPONED: Visioning Climate Justice, March 28

Indigenous people and youth are on the frontlines of the climate crisis, leading the movement for climate justice. Join Sogorea Te' Land Trust founder Corrina Gould and youth activists Isha Clarke (Youth vs. Apocalypse), Isabella Zizi (Idle No … Read full article

Sign the Protect the Bay Tar Sands Petition

Protect the Bay—#Tar Sands Free SF Bay is a coalition working to protect our air, our waters, and our communities from tar sands crude oil. Sunflower Alliance is proud to take part in this epic fight. Oil giant Phillips 66 wants to expand … Read full article

No Worker Left Behind: Protecting Workers and Communities in the Green New Deal

No Worker Left Behind: Protecting Workers and Communities in the Green New Deal—A Briefing Paper for Trade Unionists is a crucial compendium of answers to the question: What will happen to workers in fossil fuel related industries if the shift to a … Read full article

Paris Climate Goals Demand a Managed Decline of CA Oil Extraction

An important report by Oil Change International examines the implications of the Paris Agreement goals for oil production and climate leadership in California. We think it's a must read. California’s leaders have been vocal supporters of the … Read full article

For Our Health, For Our Future: Fighting Pollution and Climate Disruption in Bay Area Refineries

This illustrated 16-page primer summarizes the environmental and climate impacts of the Bay Area's five oil refineries, four in Contra Costa and one in Solano County. It tells the story of the struggle to stop the Bay Area from becoming a major … Read full article

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