Oil companies should pay for plugging their abandoned wells. Not only is this well remediation badly needed, but it will also "provide tremendous health and environmental benefits to frontline communities, and advance a just transition away from … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2020
Save Richmond’s Point Molate from Developers, September 8 + Petition
Point Molate, the last unprotected natural headland on San Francisco Bay, belongs to the people of Richmond. Tuesday the city council may vote to sell this priceless open space to a luxury housing developer with a history of lawsuits and … [Read more...]
It’s Climate Disaster Season: Support This Year’s Victims
Fire and flood. The climate disaster season is upon us. Here are links to places we can donate to support the victims while we fight for the end of the fossil fuel industry that caused them. Organizations supporting victims of Northern California … [Read more...]
Help Pass Ventura County 2,500′ Oil Well Setbacks, by August 31
On Tuesday, September 1st, the Ventura County Board of Supervisors will vote on a plan that could create 2,500-ft health and safety buffer zones separating toxic oil wells from homes and schools. This would be a precedent-setting policy that … [Read more...]
Webinar: Breast Cancer and Fossil Fuels, September 15
Breast Cancer Action is hosting a free webinar, Why We Must Stop the Fossil-Fueled Health Crisis, to explore fossil fuels' connection to breast cancer and which communities are impacted the most. Every year in the U.S., more than a quarter of a … [Read more...]
Sunflower Alliance Zoom Meeting, September 13
We're looking forward to getting together with you for a regular meeting. We'll discuss the latest developments in the campaigns we're participating in: the fight to keep new oil and gas wells out of eastern Contra Costa County and ban new fossil … [Read more...]
CoCo Leadership in Sustainability Award to Sunflower’s Shoshana Wechsler, September 17
Sunflower Alliance and Contra Costa County environmental justice activist Shoshana Wechsler is a 2020 winner of the Leadership in Sustainability award, which honors "leaders and activists whose good work is making Contra Costa communities healthy, … [Read more...]
Help Elect Sunflower Alliance Candidates to the Richmond City Council
Sunflower Alliance is feeling the love for City Council member Melvin Willis, former Mayor Gayle McLaughlin, and community leader Claudia Jimenez, all Richmond Progressive Alliance candidates for the Council. They're asking for our support to make … [Read more...]
Bayview/Hunters Point: We Can’t Breathe! POSTPONED
Join Bayview/Hunters Point residents, Greenaction, Extinction Rebellion, and Literacy for Environmental Justice to tell Mayor Breed and the Board of Supervisors to clean up radioactive and toxic waste at Hunters Point Shipyard Superfund Site and … [Read more...]
Tell Richmond: End the Toxic Relationship with Chevron!
Join Communities for a Better Environment in their new campaign to free Richmond from its toxic relationship with the mega-polluting Richmond refinery. Join a weekly conversation on social media every Thursday with the following … [Read more...]
Support Public Transit Workers and Riders, August 20 and 26
Join Voices for Public Transportation in supporting safety for public transit workers and riders, and in pushing for federal funds to help public transportation survive the pandemic. Speak up at the next Metropolitan Transportation Commission … [Read more...]