Mark your calendars for the 350 Humboldt General Meeting to be held this Thursday June 24th at 6 pm. Featured speaker will be Connor McGuigan of the Humboldt County Planning Department on the new Climate Action Plan. The plan contains hundreds of climate-saving actions that the county and cities of Humboldt will be asked to commit to doing.
Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84370554552?pwd=V2phMDBOUlNiS3hLL1BQSHNIVDFTQT09
WRITE LETTERS TO VOTERS
Write letters and sign petitions on your own or join the 350 Humboldt “chat and write” letter-writing group Sunday evenings at 7pm. Here is the zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85643874306?pwd=Tm1yeXJBVVhWMGt5ZjZXVTVYbGFoZz09
POSTCARD WRITING TO VOTERS ORGANIZED BY HUMBOLDT ACTIVIST FREDERICA AALTA
Here is Frederica describes what they are doing:
I am administering a postcarding network in Humboldt County (presently over 300 writers) and we supply postcards and stamps to writers, which are available for cost at several convenient pickup locations. Have anyone interested in joining us contact me. We mostly postcard for ROV (Reclaim Our Vote), which is non-partisan, but have also postcarded for Activate America (which used to be called Flip the West), which is partisan.
She can be reached at: [email protected]
VOTING – VOTE FORWARD
Sending letters to voters thanking them for voting in last election and encouraging them to vote again in upcoming elections.
VOTING – POSTCARDS TO SWING STATES
Please SIGN UP to write postcards to make sure Democrats come out and vote. We’ll send you the postcards, addresses and instructions for free. You provide $0.36 stamps and mail the cards. A number of campaigns are available on the website.
With the help of volunteers like you, we wrote 21 million postcards in 2020, and we saw incredible results! Voters who receive handwritten postcards are significantly more likely to vote. You can help us keep New Jersey and Virginia blue!
Visit our website to learn more about Postcards to Swing States and get answers to our frequently asked questions.
SIERRA CLUB VOTER REGISTRATION
Only 63% of Arizona voters are registered. Send a blank registration form and a letter to unregistered voters:
Print copies of this blank voter registration form and include a blank form with each letter you send. Please do not write on the voter registration forms.
These letters should be put in the mail as soon as you have completed them.
Please follow the instructions here to complete and send your letters: sc.org/LetterWritingInstructions.
When you are ready for your next batch of letters, please request more at sc.org/RequestLetters.
WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR CLIMATE NEWS?
The LA Times has an email letter called Boiling Point written by reporter Sammy Roth. You can sign up for it on this page: https://membership.latimes.com/newsletters/?
And 6000 strong 350 Silicon Valley has a great newsletter you can sign up for here: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/subscribe-31?
Another good California climate group is The Climate Center. Their newsletter always has new information: https://theclimatecenter.org/news/?
And we hope you get Bill McKibben’s weekly newsletter. Sign up at his site: http://billmckibben.com/
Let us know of any other favorite climate newsletters you like.
OTHER LETTERS/PETITIONS
Sierra Club
Later this month, the California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection will consider revised regulations that would drastically weaken road safety standards that have been in place for 30 years.
If adopted, these regulations would make it more difficult for communities to evacuate during wildfires and more dangerous for firefighters to access existing, substandard roads.
In addition to making it more dangerous to evacuate during emergencies, these harmful regulations could also make it easier to build new homes and buildings in fire-prone wildland areas — putting more families in harm’s way and increasing economic risk from future fire. To make matters worse, the board is unlikely to examine the major environmental impacts that these regulations could have under the Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Without a CEQA analysis, it is much more difficult for the state of California to plan for and avoid these environmental consequences.
Join us to fight against these dangerous regulations. Send a message to the Board of Forestry at [email protected] and tell members to reject the proposed road safety regulations and to complete a CEQA analysis. Click here for a sample email.
SIERRA CLUB
President Biden’s proposed infrastructure plan includes over $250 billion investment for accelerating pollution-free transportation. But we need a much larger investment if we are to meet our justice, climate, and jobs goals to create a healthy and sustainable future.1
Just last week, Congress made progress on this. The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee passed its portion of the package with additional promises to dramatically increase investments in electric buses and trains, accessible public transit, bike lanes, and electric charging stations.
This was the result of our collective activism. One of our climate justice champions, Rep. Chuy García of Illinois, proposed three amendments to expand and electrify public buses and trains in line with the THRIVE Act. He explicitly gave a shout-out on the floor of Congress to Sierra Club and the Green New Deal Network! Thanks to a wave of calls from activists like you, the Chair of the committee, Rep. DeFazio, then offered an on-the-record promise to Rep. García that he would push to include these bold public transit investments in the big infrastructure package that’s coming together this summer!2
Together we wielded the power of our collective action, and elected officials are feeling the heat! The actions we take now will have impacts for decades to come.
350 SV. Please go to https://actionnetwork.org/letters/time-to-end-federal-fossil-fuel-subsidiesyou-can-help
SIERRA CLUB
For decades, the fossil fuel industry has worked to expand gas infrastructure while advertising gas appliances as safe and desirable.
Unfortunately, we now know that gas appliances, and the extraction of gas to feed them, is a major contributor to the climate crisis. And before that pollution hits the atmosphere, we breathe it in our homes. Harmful gases like carbon monoxide, nitrous oxides, and formaldehyde — the same pollution that comes out of a car tailpipe — contribute to respiratory issues, heart problems, and more, especially in children.
350 SV
| Here are a few actions you can take to help advance this economy-transforming piece of legislation before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision deadline of July 4:
350 Silicon Valley is campaigning to pass the federal End Polluter Welfare Act, which would eliminate $15 billion in annual fossil fuel industry subsidies and help finance many aspects of Biden’s American Jobs Plan. Click below to send a letter to your senators and congressperson, calling on them to cosponsor this legislation so that it is included in the package. |
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| Stop Formosa Plastics
Momentum is gathering behind a campaign to stop Taiwanese Formosa Plastics Group’s proposed $12 billion petrochemical facility in St. James, Louisiana. The project, which has been denounced by the UN as environmental racism and found financially unviable by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, had its permits suspended by the Army Corps of Engineers last November after the Trump Administration was sued by the Center for Biological Diversity and local climate groups. As commander-in-chief, President Biden has the authority to direct the Army Corps to revoke these federal permits. Sign the Center for Biological Diversity’s petition urging Biden to stay true to his environmental justice and climate commitments by stopping this disastrous facility for good. |
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EPIC
| Under this new administration, we have another chance to stop the project and explore alternatives. We can’t do it without the support and participation of the community. Take action today and let our representatives know that Richardson Grove is not up for experiment!
Tell U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Caltrans and your legislators to save the redwoods of Richardson Grove for future generations and the climate. |
SUNRISE MOVEMENT
Utilities are public goods. Everyone deserves temperature control, water, and electricity, regardless of how much money they make. But right now, our utilities are intentionally designed to rake in the profits for private companies on the backs of poor, Black and brown folks.
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Call Jim Wood about SB 596 (clean cement) and SB 27 (sequestration that can’t be used for offsets)
Here is the list of Natural Resources Committee members. Except for Mark Stone, Jim Wood, and Kevin McCarty, it’s a SoCal group. If you are in one of these folks’ districts or if you have members who are, PLEASE call on Monday or Tuesday and ask for an aye vote in Nat. Res. — and let me know if you are making that ask of your members.
Or just write on the constituent contact website.
INFO: This bill would require CARB, by December 31, 2022, to develop a comprehensive strategy for California’s cement and concrete sector to reduce the carbon intensity of concrete used in the state by at least 40% from 2019 levels by 2030 and to achieve carbon neutrality as soon as possible, but no later than 2045. CARB would have to identify modifications to existing measures and evaluate new measures, including a low-carbon product standard for concrete or cement, in order to achieve those objectives.
The cement industry is one of the two largest industrial producers of carbon dioxide, creating up to 8% of worldwide man-made emissions of CO2, of which 50% is from the chemical process and 40% from burning fuel to manufacture it. It is widely considered to be one of the more difficult industrial processes to decarbonize. Your bill gives us objectives and assigns the task of finding remediation measures to the appropriate state agency. There have been recent technical advances, so we are hopeful that getting a (relatively) early start on this problem will pay dividends.
| SB 27 | NRA to establish carbon sequestration removal targets for 2030 and beyond; maintain a registry of projects and track benefits. The bill would require the office to track carbon removal or sequestration and greenhouse gas emission reduction benefits derived from projects funded through the registry and report those benefits to the state board for inclusion in calculations pertaining to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limits or other emissions goals. |
NRDC
Cement manufacturing is California’s second largest industrial source of climate-busting carbon pollution. Not to mention, it can threaten our air, soil, and waterways with toxic pollution. Will be in a committee Wood is on this week.
Thankfully, California state leaders are considering a critical bill — SB 596 by State Senator Josh Becker — that would eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from the cement industry by midcentury. This bill has already passed the State Senate and now is making its way through the State Assembly.
Will you send your assembly member a letter in support of SB 596 now?Tell your state assembly member to support SB 596 to help fight climate change and protect communities!
FOE
At many factory farms, pregnant mother pigs are kept in metal pens so small they can’t turn around. These “gestation crates” are nothing short of torture — and these highly intelligent animals are subjected to them.
What’s more, factory farms hurt people — disproportionately impacting rural communities of color. Factory farms collect manure in football field-sized lagoons that leak toxic waste into the surrounding community. This pollution rapidly spreads through watersheds, and creates dangerous algae blooms and fish kills in areas as far as the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes.
Tesla’s plan to use factory farm gas to fuel electric vehicles will further prop up this destructive industry.
Take action to stop Tesla from propping up factory farms.
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