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ACTIONS
- CALL: Tell CA Legislature to FIX the CA Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) bill
- SIGN Make Polluters Pay letter
- SIGN to Support San Francisco’s Climate Action Plan
- TELL Congress: Prevent a Dangerous New Nuclear Arms Race
UPDATES
- 2026: Support Air District Zero-Emission Home Appliance Rules
- RALLY OCT 18: No Kings Day: See photos here!
- SAVE: EPA Endangerment Finding: PSR Members submit 1,000+ comments!
- SIGNED: Governor Newsom Signed “Climate” Bills
- READ: Dr. Bob Gould’s speech from April 4 Stand Up for Science & Sanity Rally, Palo Alto
- PHOTO: April 5, Hands Off Rally, San Francisco!
- READING: Articles We Recommend
- READ: our response to the current attacks by the new administration: Standing Together for Justice and Health for All
- UPDATE: Air District Advocacy for Zero-Emission Water and Space Heater Rules
- Keep Coal Out of Oakland!
- Close Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant
- Demand the Cleanup of Bayview Hunters Point in San Francisco
- And more below
SF Bay PSR works diligently to advance science- and health-based policy and regulatory solutions to the interlinked public health emergencies of militarization and nuclear weapons, systemic racism and social inequity, environmental degradation, and the climate crisis.
Save the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
Tell CA Legislature to FIX the CEQA Bill
What does CEQA do? The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) was written to protect the people and natural regions of California from the harmful effects of industry and other development. It requires that projects analyze their potential effects on air, water, and other environmental factors, and mitigate any significant negative impacts.
Four provisions make CEQA particularly effective where permits and other regulatory measures fall short. The law provides for meaningful community engagement; requires the assessment of alternative project sites; analyzes cumulative environmental impacts; and can trigger the application of other protective laws, including air and water quality laws and waste management permits.
CEQA is one of the few tools available to overburdened communities to discover and limit the impacts of potentially harmful developments.
By exempting all “advanced manufacturing” facilities from CEQA, SB 131 threatens to expose our state’s most vulnerable populations to undisclosed and unmitigated industrial hazards. California is counting on the Legislature to uphold its commitment to fix SB 131. The “advanced manufacturing” CEQA exemption must be removed if California is to protect its people, preserve sensitive ecosystems, and deliver a more sustainable future.
What does CEQA NOT do? CEQA does not require the delay of projects: For example, in San Francisco, only 7 out of 120 housing projects (5.8%) conducted a full Environmental Impact Report (EIR) between 2018–2020.
CEQA does not stop projects: The CEQA process does not provide a mechanism to block projects. In rare cases, third parties have challenged the validity of CEQA reports, though fewer than two out of every 100 projects (1.9%) were litigated under CEQA between 2013 and 2021. When lawsuits did occur, they generally improved projects through mitigation. Reports on CEQA show benefits.
CA legislators made a commitment and must be held accountable to fix SB 131. AB 1083, the bill that would have cleaned up SB 131, is no longer moving forward. As a result, SB 131’s broad exemption for “advanced manufacturing” facilities will remain unchanged. Industrial projects ranging from lithium battery plants to chemical processing to semiconductor manufacturing will be constructed throughout California with no environmental review or mitigation. Many projects are already in motion, including a 500 MW geothermal plant in Imperial Valley proposing to power AI data centers, as well as a chemical recycling plant in Rohnert Park sited less than 1,000 feet from a high school. Vulnerable communities will be left completely unprotected from pollution flowing from these facilities, which are known to involve hazardous chemicals including lead, arsenic, and PFAS (forever chemicals). Never in 50 years has the Legislature approved a CEQA exemption for such polluting industrial projects.
Read the Study about CEQA by Housing Workshop
Learn more at CEQA Works
ACTION
Call or email Assembly Speaker, Senate President, and your state representatives.
FIND your state representatives here.
Speaker Robert Rivas: (916) 319-2029
Email: Assemblymember.Rivas@assembly.ca.gov
Senate President Monique Limón: (916) 651- 4021
Email: Senator.Limon@senate.ca.gov
Sample Script:
“My name is [insert name]. I am calling/writing on behalf of [insert organization] regarding the urgent need to fix SB 131. This bill passed on June 30, 2025 but legislators made a commitment to fix the parts of the bill that threaten significant harm to California’s communities and environment. I was distressed to hear that AB 1083, the bill would have cleaned up SB 131, is no longer moving forward.
As a constituent of [Assembly/Senate District __ ], I urge you to push the Legislature to follow through on the below promises:
1. Please remove or narrow SB 131’s exemption for “advanced manufacturing” facilities. This exemption exposes residents to impacts from toxic industrial projects and provides zero protections for environmental justice communities living alongside industrially zoned land.
2. Please amend SB 131’s definition of “natural and protected lands” to include the same protections for sensitive areas that have been standard across CEQA exemption bills, including AB 130. SB 131’s omission of these protections represents a reversal of state policy and must be fixed.
Thank you, again, for all your support in defense of the California Environmental Quality Act.”
Support Make Polluters Pay!
SF Bay PSR is supporting the Make Polluters Pay Week of Action this January 26-30 to kick-off the push for a Make Polluters Pay Agenda, climate superfund, and climate insurance legislation.
January is the start of the 2026 legislative session and we want to come out of the gate with strong support for climate superfund bills and other polluter accountability measures.
For too long, fossil fuel companies have harmed public health and profited while our communities end up paying the price for climate disasters. The Make Polluters Pay Week of Action is about shifting that cost back where it belongs — onto the corporations that knowingly caused the damage.
This movement isn’t just about one policy — it’s about a simple principle: if you cause the harm, you should help pay for the repair.
ACTIONS
Help us collect more signatures to support these bills in 2026!
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.
Are you or do you know any students?
SF Bay PSR’s amazing interns have created a Student and Recent Graduate Sign-on letter.
STUDENTS, SIGN HERE
Thank you for taking action!
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!
Thank you for taking action!
BRAVO! SF Bay PSR Intern Daphney Saviotti-Orozco and Board Members Dr. Bret Andrews and Dr. Bonnie Hamilton joined many health and climate justice advocates for the Make Polluters Pay Rally in Sacramento on May 27, 2025. These are the kind of real-life advocacy experiences that make our internship program so meaningful.
BRAVO! Dr. Bret Andrews, SF Bay PSR board member, joined up with PSR-LA; Dr. Linda Rudolph, Climate for Health leader; Jane Fonda; and CA community groups at the Make Polluters Pay press conference in Sacramento on April 29, 2025.
Trump’s Executive Order and How Make Polluters Pay Campaigns Across the Country Can Respond
On April 8, President Trump signed an executive order directing the Department of Justice to target state climate laws and lawsuits that hold fossil fuel companies accountable. The order explicitly targets New York and Vermont’s climate superfund laws and threatens ongoing climate accountability litigation nationwide. Th executive order is a clear attempt to shield polluters from paying their fair share of climate disaster costs. This executive order is a shameless attempt to ensure the burden falls on working families instead of fossil fuel billionaires.
- This Is a Fight We’re Ready For—and One We Can Win
- Trump’s executive order isn’t a setback—it’s proof that climate accountability is working and Big Oil is running scared.
- Democratic officials should respond with lawsuits defending their authority to hold polluters accountable.
- Trump campaigned on “states’ rights” but now attacks states exercising their legitimate power. This hypocrisy exposes that his administration serves corporate interests, not the constitution or constituents.
- Turn Defense into Offense
- This executive order should inspire MORE states to pass climate superfund laws against Big Oil, not fewer. Nothing in this order prevents states from continuing to advance climate accountability.
- Every state not yet considering climate superfund legislation should take this as their cue to introduce bills immediately. A coordinated response will make federal interference more difficult.
- Highlight the Human Costs and Political Risk
- As climate-fueled disasters ravage communities nationwide, voters will not look kindly on officials who protect fossil fuel profits over people paying for recovery costs.
- This executive order forces a clear choice: either fossil fuel companies pay for the damage they knowingly caused, or struggling families and taxpayers do.
- Every climate disaster now becomes an opportunity to highlight how Trump is attempting to block recovery funds that should be obtained from the companies that fueled the crisis.
SIGN to Support Funding San Francisco’s Climate Plan
SF Bay PSR has been working with the SF Climate Emergency Coalition to support SF’s Climate Action Plan (CAP), Environmental Department, and Climate Equity Hub to ensure that all San Franciscan’s can benefits from a just transition to electric buildings which provide improved air quality and health benefits.
Help us to advocate for funding of SF Climate Plan and government restructuring to ensure the plan can be implemented in an efficient, accountable, and timely manner.
Why is this important?
San Francisco approved a detailed and comprehensive Climate Action Plan in 2021 with a top-line goal of net-zero GHG emissions by 2040. Some progress toward this goal has been made, but we are now in danger of going backwards in our fight to mitigate climate change. Mayor Lurie and the Board of Supervisors recently approved a 2-year budget that revokes virtually all funding for programs critical to implementing the CAP. Without changes, staff will be laid off and successful projects will grind to a halt. In the face of rising climate catastrophe, this is simply unacceptable.
The federal government’s abdication of any climate action only underscores the need for forward-thinking cities like San Francisco to lead the way, ensuring we don’t get left behind as the rest of the world accelerates in this critical energy and economic transition. San Francisco is uniquely poised as a center of innovation and progressive values to forge ahead, demonstrating how to take meaningful action on one of the greatest challenges of our time.
ACTION
SIGN to ask Mayor Lurie to fund and support SF’s Climate Plan!
How it will be delivered? The SF Climate Emergency Coalition will deliver the petition to Mayor Lurie in person at a meeting this fall.
SF Bay PSR was so impressed with SF Youth Commissioner Jin Valencia-Tow’s speech in support of SF’s Climate Plan—we gained permission to share it with our members! We highly recommend that you read it here!
Tell Congress: Prevent a Dangerous New Nuclear Arms Race
Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the threat of nuclear weapons use is once again rising. The last remaining arms control treaty between the United States and Russia—the New START agreement—will expire on February 5, 2026. Without a follow-on treaty, there will be no limits on the world’s two largest nuclear arsenals for the first time in more than 50 years.
This moment demands action. Common sense limits on nuclear weapons have helped to keep nuclear weapons in check and reduced the risk of nuclear war. Without a follow-on agreement to New START, we face greater instability, higher risk of nuclear conflict, and an enormous new wave of spending on weapons we should be working to eliminate.
Congress can help steer us toward diplomacy and away from disaster. Two sets of bicameral resolutions—H.Res. 100 and H.Res. 317 in the House and S.Res. 61 and S.Res. 323 in the Senate—are our rallying points. H.Res. 100/S.Res. 61 specifically call for urgent negotiations to replace New START, continued U.S. and Russian compliance with current established limits, and separate engagement with China to reduce nuclear risks. H.Res. 317/S.Res. 323 goes further and calls for the United States to pursue a world free of nuclear weapons as a national security imperative.
ACTION
Your health voice matters. Urge your Representative and Senators to co-sponsor these resolutions and publicly support a follow-on agreement before New START expires.
READ MORE
FIND your members of congress and an Email Template HERE
Thank you!
Support Air District Zero-Emission Home Appliance Rules
Sponsored by the Bay Area Clean Air Coalition and SF Bay PSR
The Bay Area has the sixth worst air quality in the country according to the American Lung Association.
The Air District’s first-in-the-nation zero-emission appliance rules (Rules 9-4 and 9-6) are under review — and we will need your health voice in 2026 to protect clean air and public health.
These rules are a vital step toward eliminating harmful pollution from gas-powered furnaces and water heaters — one of the largest sources of nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions in the Bay Area, even more than all the region’s cars. These rules are expected to help prevent 15,000 asthma symptom incidents and avoid up to 85 premature deaths every year, and save an estimated $890 million annually in ER visits skipped, lost days of work and school avoided, and family members’ lives extended. These rules would greatly improve health equity and of course, help to protect our climate.
While some flexibility is needed to support residents, especially in low-income communities, we must not allow industry pressure to weaken these life-saving rules or create broad loopholes that undermine their benefits.
We are looking for more health professional volunteers to join our Building Electrification Speakers Bureau. We will train you and provide all the slides and materials. Give talks or table at community fairs and health events. It is impactful and inspiring work! Our Building Electrification program created and distributed health- and equity-focused information to educate about the benefits of electrification. In 2026, we will expand our community outreach through our collaboration with the San Francisco Environment Climate Equity Hub and a series of workshops developed in partnership with the Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates, ensuring that environmental justice communities benefit from the transition to electric buildings.
MORE UPDATES January 20, coming soon!
UPDATE: Save the EPA Endangerment Finding
PSR Members Submit More than 1,000 Comments!
Many thanks to all of you who submitted comments and shared our action alert with your networks in opposition to EPA’s proposed repeal of the Endangerment Finding, the science-based finding that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare. SF Bay PSR contributed to National PSR efforts and combined we submitted over 1000 comments out of the hundreds of thousands that were submitted. This is in addition to many PSR members who testified at the hearings for the proposal and the organizational sign on letters led by American Lung Association and the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health!
If the enormous number of comments do not save the endangerment findings, they can still be used in future lawsuits to hopefully restore the findings.
READ SF Bay PSR Board President Dr. Bob Gould’s letter here.
READ SF Bay PSR Environmental Health Committee Chair Patrice Sutton’s letter here.
We will send out an update when we know the EPA’s next steps.
UPDATE: Governor Newsom Signed “Climate” Bills
By Bailey Ward, SF Bay PSR EJ Policy Associate
At the end of this legislative session Governor Gavin Newsom signed a 6-bill energy and climate policy package described as, “Landmark Clean Energy, Climate and Affordability Solutions.” Although progress has been made in some areas, this bill package is expected to be detrimental to climate progress in the state. We expect this package to hike costs on gasoline and electricity, while increasing occurrences of wildfires in the state.
Unfortunately, it looks like we have taken a step back in addressing climate issues in the state and in rejecting big oil’s control. Below is an update on some of the bills included in this package and other priority bills that have been supported by SF Bay PSR during this legislative session.
SB 237 : This bill, authored by senator Timothy Grayson, was passed in the final days of the legislative session under the guise of protecting residents from energy bills and gasoline price spikes. However, this bill is a step backwards in environmental and public health safety, as it exempts oil drilling in Kern Country from CEQA review, which allows for the drilling of thousands of additional oil wells in Kern County, an environmental justice community that has been harmed for decades by the oil industry. This bill is a much worse version of the original bills SF Bay PSR was in support of, AB 1448 and SB 542, which both failed to pass in the second house.
AB 1207: This bill, authored by Jacqui Irwin, extends the California Cap and Trade (now Cap and Invest) program to 2045. This bill structurally tends to favor gas and oil companies, while leaving environmental justice communities vulnerable. The bill preserved rules on carbon credits which will allow companies to continue polluting disadvantaged communities through free pollution permits. We hoped that Governor Newsom would have worked to improve this program to better protect environmental justice communities, but the program remains largely the same.
Although the legislative session didn’t end exactly as we hoped. There were great improvements made thanks to our various community partners, coalition groups, and community members advocating for a better climate future for all. We will continue to push for improvement in these areas over the next year. Stay up to date on our most recent actions to continue advocating for policies that benefit our communities.
Stand Up for Science & Sanity Rally in Palo Alto:
Speech by SF Bay PSR President, Robert M. Gould, MD
April 4, 2025
An excerpt: Over the years, we have utilized such knowledge gained in free inquiry in science and health research to defend and protect the communities most vulnerable to the impacts of widespread pollution. This includes downwinders exposed to radioactive fallout in the atomic detonations starting in New Mexico in 1945 and extending through the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to include widespread planetary contamination. As well the intense and persistent radioactive poisoning caused by massive nuclear explosions in the Pacific, from which contaminated naval vessels were processed and sandblasted at Bayview Hunters Point in SF, leaving a covered-up radioactive legacy for generations living in my city.
We have similarly relied on advances in scientific research to defend our patients and communities subject to health impacts caused by our climate crisis and connected issues of toxic pollution. Beyond generating our own research and reports, we have relied on decades of expertise and studies emanating from numerous government agencies and institutions such as EPA, NIH and NIOSH, to provide support for our testimony for stronger health-protective regulations that have of course encountered strong opposition from corporate forces long intent on placing the burden of proof on those suffering the health effects of pollution.
But the challenges and frustrations of working in an often corporate-captured regulatory environment are nothing compared with the full-scale assault on our public and environmental health and freedom to defend it, evinced by the wholesale destruction of EPA and regulatory protections illustrated by our current Administration carrying out a corporate-friendly agenda foreshadowed well in advance by Project 2025. It has been jaw-dropping to witness the stunning and truly cruel attacks on federal employees, agencies, and programs that protect public health, preserve our national parks and forests, monitor extreme weather, safeguard nuclear security, enforce environmental protections, and provide care to the most vulnerable across our nation and the globe.
As we have seen in what has been aptly described in Rolling Stone magazine as the “Bloodbath” of April 1, 2025.
“… more than 7,000 workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services were cut. Staffers with decades of experience received emails at 5 a.m. on Tuesday that they were being placed on administrative leave and would no longer have access to their buildings, effective immediately.”
BRAVO to everyone who joined us for the April 5 Hands Off Rally in San Francisco!
What a meaningful day! If you missed it, don’t worry. We will be sending out more opportunities to make your voice heard.
For information about HANDS OFF, please read here.
Together we can defend the communities and issues we care about and join the movement to build a better future.
READING
It’s hard to keep up with the news these days. We are working to make that a bit easier for you by sharing a selection of the articles we are reading. Also, please share these articles far and wide—together we can help combat misinformation.
American Public Health Association (APHA) Report: Decimated public health systems, a depleted federal workforce and the deletion of safety nets that maintain the health security of America are all outcomes of President Trump’s first 100 days
PEN America Report on Free Speech and First 100 Days
PEN American on Attacks to Higher Education
Guardian: A ruthless agenda: charting 100 days of Trump’s onslaught on the environment
IPPNW: Do not let the nuclear armed states lead us down the path to death: by Dr. Ira Helfand, IPPNW Board Member, at the Third Preparatory Committee for the 2026 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, 30 April 2025.
Guardian: The Rise of End Times Fascism
KQED Forum Radio: Tech Oligarchy aka The Nerd Reich
KQED Forum Radio: How Countries Fall into Autocracy with Anne Applebaum and Steven Levitsky
The authoritarian playbook’: Trump targets judges, lawyers … and law itself
More than 1,900 scientists write letter in ‘SOS’ over Trump’s attacks on science
Americans are beginning to fear dissent. That’s exactly what Trump wants
Why Trump’s brutal crackdown on free speech is unprecedented in the US
Economic Policy Institute: Cutting Medicaid to pay for low taxes on the rich is a terrible trade for American families
Here are all the ways people are disappearing from government websites
Books:
Autocracy Rules for Survival by Masha Gessen
How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa, PBS News Hour Interview
How Fascism Works by Jason Stanely
More articles:
The Trump administration is descending into authoritarianism
Donald Trump is seeking to erase the United States as we know it
Federal Government’s Growing Banned Words List Is Chilling Act of Censorship
Trump’s shocking purge of public health data, explained
Outcry as Trump withdraws support for research that mentions climate
First Trump threatened to nuke hurricanes. Now he’s waging war on weather forecasters.
Outrage as Trump cites ‘emergency’ to fast-track fossil fuel projects
Trump administration yanks CDC flu vaccine campaign
CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health
US federal websites scrub vaccine data and LGBT references
Killing PEPFAR means killing millions of people: All to save 0.08 percent of the budget.
‘Will I be safe’? Transgender California youth feel threatened by Trump’s executive orders
Health care workers are rushing to learn about immigration law in case of ICE raids
ONGOING ACTIONS BELOW!
Keep Coal Out of Oakland!
Sponsored by No Coal in Oakland
Help prevent the construction of a major coal export terminal on the San Francisco Bay. A recent peer-reviewed Health Impact Study quantifies expected increases in Bay Area negative health outcomes due to emissions from trains that would carry 7.5 million tons of coal per year to the terminal.
ACTION
Please sign your name—including any health credentials—to the attached open letter calling for a binding commitment against handling coal at a marine terminal planned for the Oakland waterfront. The letter is co-sponsored by SF Bay PSR.
ADD YOUR NAME
If you are a member of another organization that could sign on, the attached letter also contains a link to the Organizational Sign-On Form!
Live in Oakland? No Coal in Oakland yard signs are available!
REQUEST FORM
If the property is developed as a coal terminal, it could handle from 4 to 15 million tons of coal per year. Each day, one or more uncovered coal trains, each more than a mile long, would spew toxic coal dust and diesel exhaust from Utah to Oakland, including through densely populated environmental justice communities in the East Bay. After a fossil-fueled trip across the Pacific, the coal would be burned, polluting Asian power plant communities and emitting substantial greenhouse gasses. We cannot allow it.
The coalition coordinating this campaign includes: No Coal in Oakland, 350 East Bay, Youth vs. Apocalypse, West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, SF Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility, Sierra Club, SF Baykeeper, Asian Pacific Environmental Network, West Oakland Neighbors, Interfaith Council of Alameda County, Faith in Action
LEARN MORE at No Coal in Oakland.
Below: Image credit: “Fig. 1. Study Area with Estimated PM2.5 Concentrations associated with 2.1 μg/m3 Increase in the Peak of the Annual Average Increment,” from Health impact assessment of PM2.5 from uncovered coal trains in the San Francisco Bay Area: Implications for global exposures, Environmental Research v252 Part 1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2024.118787
Save Rooftop Solar in CA, an ongoing battle!
Sponsored by Solar Rights Alliance
BACKGROUND
Rooftop solar has been jeopardized in California because of a string of reckless decisions made by the CA Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) at the behest of the utilities. They are working to end net metering, charge solar taxes and other penalties for having solar panels, and even take control of your panels and the electricity they generate. The new solar-user rules, net metering 3 (NEM 3.0), went into effect in April of 2023, and by December, year-over-year sales were down 77-85% and 17,000 solar workers lost their jobs.
- Before NEM 3.0, rooftop solar was growing fastest in middle and working class neighborhoods.
- Now, everyday people have fewer options to control skyrocketing utility bills. And rooftop solar is no longer financially viable for most apartment buildings, farmers, schools, hospitals, etc.
- Also, the state says rooftop solar must triple in order to meet the CA’s goal of getting 100% of our electricity from clean energy. That won’t happen unless rooftop solar becomes more affordable.
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WHAT IS THIS ABOUT? Utility profits!
- Utilities make profits by spending more money – your money – building and maintaining long-distance power lines.
- Because rooftop solar reduces the need to spend as much money on giant wind farms and power lines, utilities make less profit if rooftop solar keeps growing.
- However, utilities still stand to make tons of profit in the years to come, even with rooftop solar. Yet, they are still trying to kill rooftop solar.
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ACTIONS
Tell Governor Newsom and your state legislators to protect rooftop solar in CA.
EMAIL them here using Solar Rights Alliance’s easy tool.
Thank you!
MORE READING
Solar Rights Alliance Blog: CPUC blocks rooftop solar for farms, schools, and many renters. Will state lawmakers overrule them?
KQED CA Morning Report: Solar Industry Battered by New California Rule
LA Times: California needs to get its act together on rooftop solar
READ MORE at Solar Rights Alliance
Prevent California from a Nuclear Disaster
UPDATE: SB 846 passed. This is bad news!
The aging Diablo Canyon Nuclear power plant that is near four earthquake faults will remain active for at least five more years.
We remain OPPOSED to the continued operation of the Diablo Nuclear Power Plant for these reasons:
- It was built on the presumption of no active earthquake faults within 30 kilometers, it is now known there are 4 nearby active faults capable of larger quakes than the plant was designed for. One fault comes within 600 meters of the plant.
- The reactors are aging, with critical upgrades having been avoided because of the presumed shutdown in 2025.
- The attacks on the Zaporizhzhia reactor complex in Ukraine remind the world of the vulnerability of such plants to attack by adversaries / hackers, whether governments or terrorists, and the potential for massive radiation release.
- Spending billions of dollars on the aging Diablo nuclear plant would steal resources that should be used for far more cost-effective renewables and storage, essential for dealing with climate change.