Our current gas-car-based transportation system accounts for about half our greenhouse gas emissions and worsens all our inequities. Join experts and activists to hear about ways to strengthen transit, make it easy to walk or bike, and replace gas … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2021
Just Transition Lawyering, Thursdays in August
Lawyers, law students and educators, and justice allies are invited to a four-part webinar series, Invitation to Just Transition Lawyering, to be held every Thursday in August. Hosted by the Just Transition Lawyering Institute of the Gulf Coast … [Read more...]
Tell Biden: Climate Action is Not Terrorism!
Join climate leaders and activists around the world to demand that Joe Biden stop the long-term imprisonment of Jessica Resnicek for taking direct action against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Resnicek was sentenced to eight years in prison for using … [Read more...]
Everyone Exhale! Historic Air District Victory for Environmental Justice
In a huge victory for pollution-burdened frontline communities, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District’s Board of Directors voted on July 21 by a surprising 19-3 majority to adopt the strictest particulate matter emission standard for Chevron … [Read more...]
Toward a Fossil Fuel Free Bay Area, July 30
Join the Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force to discuss what we need to do to phase out shipping and refining oil in a just transition to a Fossil Fuel Free Bay Area This is the next installment of the CEMTF summit series, United Actions for … [Read more...]
Press Conference to Support Limiting Refinery Emissions, July 14
Representatives of Bay Area environmental justice and health groups are demanding that the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) vote “yes” on Proposed Rule 6-5, which would require Chevron and PBF refineries to install the best available … [Read more...]
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 more...]
Feinstein: Support Civilian Climate Corps! July 15
Join the Sunrise Movement and Extinction Rebellion to put the heat on Sen. Feinstein for her inaction on the climate crisis and tell her to support the creation of a Civilian Climate Corps. This proposal, modeled on the New Deal Civilian … [Read more...]
Climate Safe Buildings/Decarbonization, July 16
Join the Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force to learn how you can support Bay Area efforts to get fossil fuels out of buildings. This is the next installment of the CEMTF summit series, United Actions for an Environmentally Just and … [Read more...]