There are no get out the vote campaigns active now. For this week please write a hand-written letter to Governor Newsom and sign the petitions below.
Ask Governor Newsome to restore the $6 billion in climate action cuts he proposed in January. Climate action now is all that will help us when temperatures rise to 1.5°C or higher. If a boat were sinking, you wouldn’t throw out the life boats first!
Send to:
Governor Gavin Newsom
1021 O Street, Suite 9000
Sacramento, CA 95814
JOIN THE 350 HUMBOLDT LETTER WRITING GROUP AT 7PM SUNDAY FEBRUARY 5 to chat while we write to elect a climate-affirming Wisconsin Supreme Court.
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PETITIONS
Move On
Big news: President Biden is taking further action against climate change! The administration is proposing new rules to protect us and our planet from methane pollution. We need to make sure they impose the strongest policy possible. Our futures depend on it!
Methane is a climate killer—pound for pound, it warms the planet dozens of times faster than carbon dioxide. And it also contributes to things like asthma in the low-income communities that feel the brunt of the fossil fuel industry. Implementing the strongest possible methane regulations will have major impacts in our work to retain a livable planet and livable communities. We cannot afford to go halfway with this one.
Monday the 13th is the last day the Environmental Protection Agency is accepting public comments about its methane move. Let’s demand a stronger rule to fight climate change before it’s too late.
Will you take three minutes to submit a public comment to ask the EPA to do everything possible to strengthen its regulations limiting methane pollution? Tell them to impose a regulation to limit the practice of methane “flaring,” which releases dangerous
Sierra Club
The Public Utilities Commission (PUC) just released a proposed decision as part of its biannual Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) — the grand plan that guides how the electricity powering 80% of our state is generated and sets limits on the amount of greenhouse gases are allowed to be emitted in the process.
This decision proposes to lower the limit on greenhouse gas emissions in the elector sector to 30 million metric tons (MMT) by 2030 — the equivalent of eliminating pollution from 6 million vehicles driven in a year. We have been asking for this lower target for over three years to set our state on the path to a clean energy future. But the PUC can still do better.
Today, the majority of California’s polluting gas plants are located in or near impacted communities, and they have been wreaking havoc on our climate and public health. Pollution from power plants can cause serious health issues ranging from asthma attacks to heart attacks. We need to make sure that the most polluted communities are the first to get relief from the toxic air spewed by power plants
Submit a comment to the Public Utilities Commission today!
Show support for the PUC’s plan today and ask for a stronger commitment to retiring gas in communities seeking environmental justice.
Environmental Action
The plastics industry and the American Chemistry Council are pushing legislation in Congress that would reclassify incineration as “advanced recycling.” Classifying plastic incinerators as “advanced recycling” would allow them to avoid Clean Air Act requirements, taking an insidious part of our waste disposal and sweeping it under the rug.
There’s no easy way out of the mountains of plastic trash humans have generated. We especially should not burn plastic as the solution.
If the plastics industry gets its way, this would perpetuate the cycle of waste in our country, allowing companies to keep producing more and more plastic that would eventually be dumped into an incinerator.
And it would create yet another source of hazardous air pollution that will fill the skies with the smell of burnt garbage. Burning plastic releases dioxins, a highly toxic type of air pollution that can lead to cancer, damage the immune system and cause reproductive issues.2,3
Urge your U.S. House representative to say no to burning plastic.
FOE
Advertisements from companies like Tyson, Marfig, and Smithfield are intentionally misleading consumers by portraying happy animals on spacious farms, roaming freely among open green pastures. These corporations spend millions of dollars each year to keep you from realizing just how abusive factory farms actually are.
The truth is that from the moment these animals are born, they are subjected to unimaginable cruelty. Calves are torn apart from their mothers and shoved into crates. Hens are crammed into tiny cages no bigger than a sheet of paper where they can’t even spread their wings. Pregnant mother pigs are confined to metal pens that are too tight for them to turn around.
Big Ag wants to keep deceiving you about what’s really going on so that they can continue to profit off of these abuses — at the cost of animal welfare, public health, and the environment.
SIGN THE PETITION TO HOLD THESE FARMS ACCOUNTABLE
Center for Biological Diversity
Alaska contains 23 million acres of important habitat for iconic species like polar bears, caribou and birds who migrate to six continents — even, maybe, to your own backyard. Yet the Bureau of Land Management has just taken a dangerous step toward approving a massive oil development on this priceless public land.
This proposed development, called the Willow Master Development Plan, is the single largest oil and gas extraction project currently proposed on U.S. public lands. In addition to threatening the region’s wildlife, it would cause oil spills and toxic air pollution, harming Indigenous communities on Alaska’s North Slope. And in the midst of the ever-growing climate emergency — already hitting the Arctic hard — if the project is fully developed, it would release so much carbon pollution that it would jeopardize our chance of meeting national climate goals.
Stop the Money Pipeline
We have some breaking news about the East African Crude Oil Pipeline — and we’re closer than ever to stopping it once and for all:
· The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) would endanger the largest lake in Africa while adding 34 million metric tons of carbon pollution to our atmosphere per year
· Marsh, one of the most powerful U.S. insurance brokers, is helping EACOP find the crucial insurance it needs to move forward
· But 11 Ugandan, Tanzanian and U.S. organizations just filed an official complaint against Marsh for violating international standards for ethical business conduct!
Email Marsh’s senior leadership and say: Drop the East African Crude Oil Pipeline.
PIRG
That delivery you get from Amazon, or send to a loved one as a gift, is likely filled with an excessive amount of plastic packaging.
All this throwaway single-use “stuff” isn’t just a nuisance to dispose of or a headache to figure out how to recycle, not to mention just plain unnecessary. It’s also a huge contributor to a plastic waste problem that is utterly out of control.
Amazon can and must do better — in 2019 alone, the company’s plastic packaging waste neared half a billion pounds, according to one estimate.
Green America
The EPA’s updated draft rule improves upon many of the standards in the original draft rule released by EPA last year, including requiring regular inspections at all well sites, but it does not go far enough – especially on key issues like the wasteful and dangerous practice of routine flaring.
By signing our public comment, you let EPA know that routine flaring is unacceptable, not only for our health but also for our economy.
We need the Biden administration to use all of its authority to quickly enact strong solutions for pollution to meet the president’s climate, public health, and justice commitments.
[PS. You can add to the letter that dairy and hog manure lagoons are just “venting” methane into the air. It needs to stop.]