Oct-Nov 2021: Healthy Climate Prescription Letter delivered to World leaders at COP26

THANK YOU to the Global Climate and Health Alliance and everyone who signed! WATCH this SUPERB video of health care providers calling on COP26 to take action, “Our handwriting may be bad, but our message is clear” San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility joined 46 million health workers from around the world to send ...

Oct-Nov 2021: Healthy Climate Prescription Letter delivered to World leaders at COP262022-02-03T14:59:35-08:00

SUPPORTED SB 582 the Climate Emergency Mitigation, Climate Safe Restoration, and Just Resilience Act of 2021

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 ...

SUPPORTED SB 582 the Climate Emergency Mitigation, Climate Safe Restoration, and Just Resilience Act of 20212021-05-13T15:18:56-07:00

UPDATE: SB 467 Ban Fracking and Other Destructive Oil Extraction Methods and to Require Distance Between Oil Extraction and Homes and Schools

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 ...

UPDATE: SB 467 Ban Fracking and Other Destructive Oil Extraction Methods and to Require Distance Between Oil Extraction and Homes and Schools2021-05-13T15:20:14-07:00

UPDATE: California Building Decarbonization Package: SB 30, SB 31, SB 32 & SB 37

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 ...

UPDATE: California Building Decarbonization Package: SB 30, SB 31, SB 32 & SB 372021-05-13T14:56:42-07:00

SIGNED: East Bay Clean Power Alliance letter

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.

SIGNED: East Bay Clean Power Alliance letter2020-11-17T13:25:03-08:00

PASSED: the California Air Resources Board unanimously adopted the landmark Advanced Clean Trucks rule

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 ...

PASSED: the California Air Resources Board unanimously adopted the landmark Advanced Clean Trucks rule2020-11-17T13:22:18-08:00

Signed: Letter to Support AB 345 to California State Senate’s Natural Resources and Water Committee from health professionals in California

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 ...

Signed: Letter to Support AB 345 to California State Senate’s Natural Resources and Water Committee from health professionals in California2020-08-11T16:23:04-07:00

Endorsed: AB-345, to require CA Secretary of NRA to create an environmental justice program

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, ...

Endorsed: AB-345, to require CA Secretary of NRA to create an environmental justice program2020-06-30T17:26:26-07:00
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