JULY 19, 2025
Sept 10: Buy tickets or sponsor HERE!
GALA: Gathering for Action, Leadership, and Advocacy
Democracy Under Threat—Health, Climate, and Global Security at Risk
ACTIONS
- July 28: Rally in SF to Help Pass Electric Building Codes, before it’s too late!
- August 6: Annual Protest Against Nuclear Weapons at Livermore Labs and Historic Peace Boat in SF Bay!
- August 7: Deadline to Stop the Rollbacks of EPA Emission Standards
- Ongoing: Sign to Support Make Polluters Pay bills in CA
July 28! Support SF’s Climate Plan and Codes to Electrify Buildings
Join members of SF Bay PSR! Rally and give public comment to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to a healthy, safe, and clean environment, and showcase our climate leadership!
SF’s All-Electric Major Renovations Ordinance is scheduled to be heard at the Land Use & Transportation Committee on July 28.
We must urgently pass climate- and health-friendly electric building codes before the new CA law goes into effect, AB 306/AB 130/SB 131 that will severely restrict cities’ abilities to adopt new building codes from October 1, 2025, to June 1, 2031, with some exceptions.
ACTIONS
Rally and give public comments. Join SF Bay PSR members!
Monday, July 28, 2025
Noon Rally: SF City Hall steps, east side facing the park, 1 Dr Carlton B Goodlett Place
1:30pm: Give public comments: Land Use & Transportation Committee
SF City Hall room 250
TALKING POINTS
Submit a letter with SF Climate ER’s easy tool here.
BACKGROUND
(Thank you to SF Climate Emergency for this information!)
Despite efforts by SF Climate Emergency, SF Bay PSR, and many others, the SF Environment Department has received very little funding from the City’s General Fund. For this coming fiscal year, their general funds were cut to about $900,000. Yes, you read that right. In an annual city budget of around $16 billion, the City provides less than $1 million to the very department uniquely tasked with implementing SF’s Climate Action Plan.
However, climate change can still be addressed in San Francisco through legislation.
The Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman has introduced an ordinance mandating all-electric major renovations. Buildings undergoing such renovations must install only electric systems for heating/cooling, water heating and cooking. In SF, 44% of our greenhouse gas emissions come from buildings, so this ordinance is a timely and necessary move toward reducing “natural” gas use in buildings and improving air quality for all. Please send a quick letter of support to policymakers now.
New construction in SF has been required to be all-electric since 2021. As in the new construction ordinance, there are some exceptions in the new major renovations ordinance: buildings where 1) all-electric design is technically or physically infeasible, 2) a restaurant or application for one exists, and 3) a gas-fueled system replacement or upgrade is ≤5 years old. Also, some types of renovations have been given more time to comply. Until 2028, 100% affordable housing renovations are exempt, and non-residential-to-residential building conversions are exempt until 2031.
We need SF to lead on climate and health—to become a model for the rest of the country.
Annual Protest Against Nuclear Weapons at Livermore Labs
80 Years of Nuclear Devastation
Remember Our History; Reshape Our Future!
Hosted by TriValley Cares, co-sponsored by SF Bay PSR
ACTION
Wednesday, August 6, 9am
Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab, West Gate
MORE details and directions HERE
Join SF Bay PSR members and many others on this historic anniversary to commemorate the victims and support global nuclear abolition at the location where horrific new warheads are being designed today. The day will include a rally, non-violent protest, a “die-in,” a traditional Japanese Bon dance, and inspiring speakers.
LEARN about the Historic Peace Sailboat coming to SF Bay in August!
Stop the Rollbacks of EPA Emission Standards
Two EPA pollution standards are in jeopardy of being rolled back:
1. Greenhouse Gas Standards for emissions from fossil-fueled power plants (among largest sources of climate pollution in America)
2. Standards restricting power plant emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants
These rollbacks of emission standards will undo regulations that prevent 230,000 premature deaths each year and have delivered $2 trillion in health and economic benefits since 1990. To protect the progress we’ve made reducing pollution contributing to climate change, each of us is needed to raise our voices and submit a comment opposing both of these repeals.
ACTIONS
Deadline August 7, 2025
1. To submit your comment to the Federal Register opposing the repeal of the Carbon Pollution from Power Plants Rule, CLICK HERE.
Deadline August 10, 2025
2. To submit your comment to the Federal Register opposing the repeal of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, CLICK HERE.
Thank you!
Make Polluters Pay!
Help us to make the polluters pay for the climate devastation they’ve caused (because we’ve paid enough!). Thousands of Californians are calling on the California legislature to pass the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act (Senator Caroline Menjivar and Assemblymember Dawn Addis, (SB 684 / AB 1243) to get the fossil fuel companies to pay their fair share.
UPDATE: The bills have become two-year bills, so there will be more opportunities to be part of this historic campaign.
ACTION
SIGN SF Bay PSR wrote a letter for health professionals and advocates to sign in support of Make Polluters Pay. Your health voice can make a difference!
READ the letter and SIGN HERE
Note: SF Bay PSR never shares your email or info with other groups.
MORE INFO
While companies made billions of dollars despite decades of warnings of the accelerating dangers of climate change, Californians have increasingly faced rises in wildfire occurrence, flood occurrence, sea level, pollution levels, extreme heat, drought, and more. There have been numerous documented cases of fossil fuel companies polluting waterways, soil, and the air through oil spills, explosions, and fires, with further damage being caused by everyday industry practices. The costs in medical expenses, insurance rates, housing, and utility bills have undoubtedly been influenced by the actions of California’s biggest polluters driving our climate crisis. Yet the costs of these climate events fall on those who had no say in the extraction and destruction of our environment.
These funds will be used to respond to climate catastrophes, build climate-resilient neighborhoods and sustainable infrastructure, support workers suffering from climate-related health harms, and usher in a thriving and fair transition away from fossil fuels.
It’s time for polluters to pay for destroying our health and the health of our planet!
