Please attend our first virtual letter-writing party Sunday May 24, 7 – 8 pm. Hang out with other 350 Humboldt members and enter on-line comments or write actual snail mail.
A) Sierra Club and Vote Forward will give you names and addresses of ten voters to write to. It may take a few hours to get your first list, so sign up before Sunday if you can.
B) Campaigns we endorse are listed below, for on-line or snail mail comments. And 350 Humboldt has a petition for CalGEM.
Here is the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85612037227
(detail at bottom of email).
If you have a computer and a laptop or iPad, you can join Zoom with one and do on-line messaging with the other. Or just stick to letters.
Regardless of whether you join the virtual party, please send letters or on-line messages about the issues below.
GET OUT THE VOTE
Volunteers with these organizations are writing millions of letters to infrequent voters known or believed to be friendly to the environment.
Note: you are responsible for printing the letter and providing envelopes and stamps.
Sierra Club: Sign up at: https://www.sierraclubindependentaction.org/writing-climate-voters-letters
Step by step letter writing guide: sc.org/letterwritingguide
You can fill out the sc.org/RequestLetters form any time you would like to request letters to write!
Vote Forward: Information and sign-up https://votefwd.org
CAMPAIGNS
CalGEM rule-making on gas and oil wells
Brief summary of issue: The Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR)’s transformation into CalGEM last year was accompanied by a change in the Division’s mission — from maximizing oil and gas output from California’s lands, to protection of the public health. The current rulemaking, in line with the goals of AB 345 (Muratsuchi) and a November 2019 announcement from the Department of Conservation, is considering imposition of significant buffers between oil or gas operations and sensitive sites such as homes, schools, parks, healthcare facilities—especially areas used by children.
Online place for entering comments to CalGEM: CalGEM rule for protecting public health by situating emissions 2500 feet from schools and other vulnerable populations https://www.conservation.ca.gov/publichealth
Online petition to CalGEM, Governor Newsom and the California Legislature sponsored by 350 Humboldt:https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/calgem-public-health?source=direct_link&
ADDRESS SNAIL MAIL TO:
Department of Conservation, 801 K Street, MS 24-02
Sacramento, CA 95814
ATTN: Public Health Near Oil & Gas Rulemaking
Summary of comments pro and con through April
Advanced Clean Trucks Rule
Background: https://www.nrdc.org/experts/patricio-portillo/ca-takes-step-forward-new-clean-truck-proposal
A greatly beefed up schedule for converting diesel trucks to electric over next several years.
Submit on CARB website: https://www.arb.ca.gov/lispub/comm/bcsubform.php?listname=act2019&comm_period=1
SNAIL MAIL
California Air Resources Board
Advanced Clean Truck Regulation
P.O. Box 2815, Sacramento, CA 95812
ReWIND ACT
Resources for Workforce Investments, not Drilling Act (ReWIND Act) prevents use of CARES funds for bailing out gas and oil industries. Summary of act and reasons for it are at:
https://barragan.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/20.05.05-REWIND-Fact-Sheet-Final.pdf
Jared Huffman, our Congressman, is one of five who introduced the act. Write him to thank him. Email:https://huffman.house.gov/contact/email-me
SNAIL MAIL
Representative Jared Huffman
1527 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515
OR
317 Third Street, Suite 1
Eureka CA 95501
350.org petition to Congress in favor. Sign on-line:
https://act.350.org/sign/Covid19-2020-congress-rewindact-petition_copy/?akid=120593.4400867.yz-PVq&rd=1&t=7&utm_medium=email
Write to Diane Feinstein and Kamala Harris in support of the Senate version of the ReWIND Act. Thank Feinstein for writing a letter opposing the Federal Reserve’s changes in the Main Street Lending Programs which give fossil fuel companies access to funds meant for small business.
Senator Dianne Feinstein
United States Senate
331 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Or email at: https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me
Senator Kamala Harris
United States Senate
112 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Or email at: https://www.harris.senate.gov/contact/email
UPDATE: On Friday May 22, 350.org sent out a petition to go to Harris and Feinstein asking that they pass the Heroes Act (the 3 trillion act passed by the House already) but that they add on provisions like the ReWind act prohibiting oil companies from getting any government bailout.
People’s Bailout
Write to your congressional representatives (this is for personalized emails, not really a petition)
https://thepeoplesbailout.org/home/#petition
ZOOM DETAIL
350 Humboldt is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Virtual letter-writing party
Time: May 24, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Meeting ID: 856 1203 7227
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