Proposition 15, the Schools and Communities First Initiative, would raise $12 billion a year for schools and communities in California. Chevron is one of the wealthy corporate donors bankrolling a campaign to defeat it. Like other corporate … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2020
Sunflower Alliance Zoom Meeting, October 4
We're looking forward to getting together with you for our 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...]
Support Democracy in Richmond Planning for Cleaner Air, September 29
Please join Richmond-San Pablo environmental justice leaders to help bring democracy and transparency to the Community Emissions Reduction Program (CERP). The CERP is the action part of an air pollution reduction process created in 2017 by the AB … [Read more...]
Just Transition–Transformative Frontline Strategies, October 7
The Labor Network for Sustainability hosts leaders of frontline struggles for just transition talking about how their communities are navigating climate chaos, growing right-wing and racist violence and a global pandemic by tackling their root … [Read more...]
Public Transit Green New Deal for the East Bay, October 3
Join AC Transit Board candidate Jovanka Beckles, Berkeley City Councilmembers Kate Harrison and Cheryl Davila, Building Trades union member Rob Rooke, and bus operator and labor organizer Nathaniel Arnold for a discussion on putting public transit at … [Read more...]
Stop Funding Tar Sands, Stand with Indigenous Communities, Now – October 2
Join Stop the Money Pipeline and Indigenous frontline leaders for a day of solidarity with frontline and Indigenous communities fighting back against Tar Sands pipelines including Line 3, Trans Mountain, and Keystone XL Demand that Wall Street … [Read more...]
House Passes Just Transition for Fossil Fuel Workers!
Thank our Contra Costa Representative Mark DeSaulnier for authoring this amendment to the Clean Economy Jobs and Innovation Act (H.R. 4447), which passed the House of Representatives September 24. The amendment provides grant funding to communities … [Read more...]
Climate Action Webinars: Local to Global, September 22-25
Hear from local leaders who are using land use laws and other policy tools to say no to oil and gas expansion -- and yes to community health and safety, a just transition to renewable energy, a green recovery, and a livable climate. And learn how the … [Read more...]
Health Impacts of Drilling @ Contra Costa Hazardous Materials Commission, September 24
Come hear a presentation on the potential environmental and health impacts of oil and gas drilling in East Contra Costa County at the next meeting of the Contra Costa County Hazardous Materials Commission. Jeffrey Mann, M.D., and Bret Andrews, D.O., … [Read more...]
EBCE: Home Solar + Storage Incentives, September 24, 29, 30
Learn about East Bay Community Energy's new program to help homeowners install a solar + battery system. Their new Resilient Home program pools the power of individual participants to get more competitive pricing, with an additional incentive that … [Read more...]
Stop Fueling the Flames, Gov Newsom: Two Ways to School Him NOW
SEND A LETTER Last week, from the frontlines of our state’s wildfires (which are still burning), Governor Newsom declared, “This is a climate damn emergency.” He called our climate goals inadequate, and vowed to accelerate efforts to decarbonize … [Read more...]