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Another 12 fracking permits were just approved in California. Gavin Newsom continues to break his promises and add to the legacy of environmental racism in California.

Will you send a tweet right now calling on @GavinNewsom to protect public health for all Californians and stop oil drilling in our state?

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You’ll join thousands of Californians as part of the #EndDependence on fossil fuels twitterstorm. Together we’ll create an online uprising that’s impossible to ignore.

Last month, we set a goal of submitting 25,000 public comments against neighborhood oil drilling with our partners and we blew that goal out of the water thanks to you.

With your help, our movement submitted over 40,000 comments and thousands of people testified calling for a 2,500 foot health and safety buffer zone between oil wells and our homes and schools. This is huge, but it’s still up to Gavin Newsom to act – and so far he continues to break his promises.  

In the middle of the COVID-19 crisis and amidst a massive movement calling for racial justice, the state issued another 12 new fracking permits for Aera Energy to expand drilling in the Central Valley, which already suffers from some of the worst air pollution in the nation. That’s on top of the 24 fracking permits issued in April, also to Aera Energy in Kern County.1

We cannot allow more harmful fossil fuels that pollute Black and Brown communities and destroy our climate future. Join our twitterstorm today, June 29th, starting at 10am PT to be part of a massive online uprising targeting Gov. Newsom.

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Neighborhood oil drilling is a symptom of the same racist systems that give rise to police brutality. It is no accident that oil drilling takes place in Black & Brown communities.

Why won’t @GavinNewsom #EndDependence on oil? end-dependence.org/

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Governor Newsom said during his campaign that he supported banning fracking, but has not done so. Approving new permits during a global health crisis in areas that are already ground zero for environmental racism is unthinkable.

The same racist systems that have policed and killed Black and Brown bodies have polluted Black and Brown communities for far too long. They’ve created decades of physical and mental health disparities that have led to higher death rates among people of color from COVID-19. That’s why our fight against COVID-19, fossil fuels, and white supremacy are deeply connected.

All of us, together, must take action to dismantle white supremacy – that includes the fossil fuel industry. We can start by forcing our Governor to stand up to Big Oil and ensure that every California regardless of race or zip code has access to clean air and water.

Let’s make noise.

Matt Leonard