SIGNED: California Building Decarbonization Package: SB 30, SB 31, SB 32 & SB 37 (Cortese). SF Bay PSR is supporting this bill package because a just transition to zero-emission buildings is absolutely critical to ensure that California reaches the state’s current climate goals. The State Air Resources Board finds that California’s building energy use accounts ...
SUPPORT: SB 467 Ban Fracking and Other Destructive Oil Extraction Methods and to Require Distance Between Oil Extraction and Homes and Schools This California bill would stop new and renewed permits for, and ban after January 2022, hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and other oil extraction methods that pose risks to the environment and public health. Also, ...
SIGNED: East Bay Clean Power Alliance letter to East Bay Community Energy Commission to urging them to implement a county Green New Deal and realign policy decisions to fulfill the racial, social and economic equity goals that spurred creation of the agency.
PASSED: the California Air Resources Board unanimously adopted the landmark Advanced Clean Trucks rule – a first-in-the-world requirement to transition the trucking sector to zero-emission technologies in California and beyond. This critical rule will help us reduce air pollution in our most impacted communities, fight climate change, and save lives. See the American Lung Association’s ...
Over 600 physicians, nurses and health professionals in California, many of whom are currently frontline health care workers throughout our state sent a letter supporting AB345. We have seen first hand the ways in which oil and gas drilling harms the health of our patients. While we understand that the California Geologic Energy Management Division ...
Endorsed AB-345, which requires the CA Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to create an environmental justice program to identify and address any gaps in existing programs, policies, or activities and to develop by July 2022, agency regulations specifying a minimum setback distances between oil and gas activities and schools, childcare facilities, playgrounds, residences, ...
