Announcements
The AG Weighs in on Suisun Marsh Gas Drilling
Sunset Exploration, the same company that proposes to restart oil drilling outside of Brentwood, has also applied for a permit to drill for gas within a protected area in the Suisun Bay wetlands, the largest marsh on the West Coast. But on April … Read full article
Support Indigenous Resistance to Line 3, April 9 and beyond
Join a covid-safe protest and street-mural painting calling on Wells Fargo bank and one of its major shareholders, BlackRock, to stop financing Enbridge's Line 3 Tar Sands pipeline. Indigenous organizers in Northern Minnesota need our support to … Read full article
Speak Out at First Hearing for SB 467, April 13
Please get ready to call in on Tuesday to the Senate Natural Resources Committee hearing on SB467! This crucial bill would end dangerous drilling—abolish fracking and other extreme extraction methods, and ensure 2500 foot setbacks from oil and gas … Read full article
From Petroleum to Biorefining: Climate Boon or Boondoggle? April 15
Are biofuels better or worse for the climate than fossil fuels? Two Bay Area oil refineries recently announced a pivot from petroleum refining to the production of renewable diesel. And they’re not alone: in the face of current market … Read full article
Chevron: Stop Funding Burmese Dictatorship, April 15
Chevron is not only polluting the environment and politics in Richmond, South America, and beyond, but is also propping up the murderous military dictatorship in Burma (Myanmar). Join a national day of action telling Chevron to suspend all payments … Read full article
No Homes on a Toxic Waste Dump! April 20
“The tides are rising and so are we!” Come tell the Richmond City Council not to allow housing on the super-toxic AstraZeneca waste-dump site until it's completely cleaned up! Last January the lame-duck city council approved a 4,000-unit … Read full article
Introduction to the Green New Deal, April 20
Grandmothers for a Green New Deal, a small group of elder women (members of 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations), invite you to a 90-minute, interactive zoom workshop to examine the Green New Deal as a blueprint toward a sustainable … Read full article
Rally for Environmental Justice for Hunters Point and Treasure Island, April 22
Join a People's Earth Day rally at San Francisco City Hall to call for environmental justice for Bayview Hunters Point and Treasure Island residents. Demand that Mayor Breed and the SF Board of Supervisor: Declare a moratorium on Lennar's … Read full article
Wild & Scenic Film Festival, April 22-27
Celebrate Earth Day 2021 at this year's Wild and Scenic Film Festival! While it's not possible to gather at The Goldman Theater at The Brower Center due to the pandemic, this year’s online program will include twenty of the year’s top environmental … Read full article
Clean Mobility with Speed and Equity, April 28
Transportation accounts for over half of all greenhouse gas emissions in California. Join the Climate Center in this webinar on equitable transportation and clean mobility strategies that can wean us off fossil fuels. Speakers: Assemblymember … Read full article
The Refinery Emissions Rule Is On Its Way to a Final Vote June 2
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 reduce health-destroying particulate matter from the Chevron and Marathon refineries—to the full Board of … Read full article
Tell State Legislators: Support CA Green New Deal
Join the California Green New Deal Coalition in telling your state legislators to support green new deal legislation in our state. The California Green New Deal Coalition has identified five priority bills now before the legislator. Passing these … 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
Is Your Bank Financing Climate Destruction?
Is your bank financing climate destruction? Check it out in this important new report, Banking on Climate Chaos 2021. This year’s report is the most comprehensive analysis on fossil-fuel banking produced to date. It details the fossil-fuel … Read full article