SUPPORTED SB 582 the Climate Emergency Mitigation, Climate Safe Restoration, and Just Resilience Act of 2021: Signed the Climate Center’s organizational sign on letter in support of SB 582, a bill which strengthens state climate policy by increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets from 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 to a higher threshold for ...
UPDATE May 13, 2021: SF Bay PSR SUPPORTED SB 467: This bill would have banned fracking and created set backs from oil wells to protect communities nearby. But it did not advance through the committee process. We are grateful to VISION-CA for their community-led leadership on this bill and remain committed to passing legislation that ...
Governor Newsom ordered a ban on new oil fracking by 2024. If enacted, it would accomplish the mission years sooner than the original SB 467. However, Sierra Club says it is not enough. READ MORE April 2021
SUPPORTED: California Building Decarbonization Package: SB 30, SB 31, SB 32 & SB 37 (Cortese). May 13, 2021: There are no hearing dates yet for these bill proposals. SB 32 was sent to Senate Governance and Finance on April 15. SB 31 went to Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications on April 19. The California Air ...
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, ...
