OCTOBER 17, 2023 Together we helped to do all this! Bravo to all the environmental justice groups who led so many of these efforts! And THANK YOU to all of you who signed, called, wrote, and donated!!! California Forges Path to End Fossil Fuels! California is the fifth largest economy in the world—so what we ...
March 15, 2023 SF Bay PSR and other members of the Bay Area Clean Air coalition sponsored this important resolution! BIG NEWS! On March 15, after six hours of public comments and nail biting....the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) passed the nation's first zero-emissions appliance standard to gradually transition Bay Area homes to ...
March 2023 We invite you to help with these efforts and much more. Protect Communities from Oil Wells: Fight the ballot measure to reverse SB 1137 Environmental justice communities have fought for over a decade to protect themselves and their families from oil and gas pollution and to mandate a health protective zone around their ...
Below please find recent efforts and reading list re: advocating for peace in the Urkaine. Last updated 3/14/22. No Nuclear War in Urkaine Supported by International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, SF Bay PSR, PSR National, and others. As healthcare professionals, we call for NATO and the Russian Federation to renounce the ...
Thank you to our intern Daisy Valdivieso for writing this update! SF Bay PSR EHC Members continue to work energetically on wide-ranging collaborative efforts to engage health professionals and students, health care institutions, and policy makers to address the unceasing threats of our climate to our health. Recent highlights include: Health Professional Education / Curriculum ...
SB 47 (Limón) Existing law prohibits CalGEM from spending more than $3 million in any one fiscal year for purposes related to hazardous wells, idle-deserted wells, hazardous facilities, and deserted facilities. This bill will indefinitely raise the cap on spending for these purposes to $5 million in any one fiscal year. Signed by Governor Newsom ...
SB 433 (Allen) will authorize the California Coastal Commission to levy fines on Coastal Act violators beyond only access violations. It will better enable the California Coastal Commission to protect the state's coastal resources and recreational opportunities and reduce costs to the state. Signed by Governor Newsom, 2021
AB 1346 (Berman/Gonzalez) will phase out the sale of gas-powered leaf blowers, lawn mowers and other small off-road engines by as soon as 2024. SF Bay PSR would like to highlight the incredible work of Dr. David Bezanzon, for his close and thoughtful advocacy work on this bill.
Setbacks from oil wells: After much effort to reincarnate last year’s AB 345 as SB 467, a bill to phase out oil and drilling and introduce setbacks for community health, the bill unfortunately did not pass in Senate Committee on Environmental Quality this year. Thanks to efforts by community-based leaders like VISIÓN Coalition, Sierra Club, ...
Governments: commit to meaningful military emissions cuts at COP26, Oct-Nov, 2021 SF Bay PSR and many other PSR chapters joined more than 222 organizations to endorsed this joint call to action organized by the Conflict and Environment Observatory. The 2015 Paris Agreement left cutting military greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to the discretion of individual nations. ...
