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Inaugural EOPA CA Climate Emergency & Energy Security Summit focused on offshore wind
The Summit focused on the urgency for affordable clean energy security for all Californians – and highlighted energy solutions including scaling up offshore wind power. EOPA CA also supported Governor Newsom’s windfall profits cap on oil companies that are price gouging Californians at the pump...
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2022 4:10pm PST
Bad Deal: Seeno's and Tagami's Newest Proposal for Concord
The latest term sheet proposal by the Concord First (yes, really that's their name) Partners is a bad deal for Concord. Not only is it more of the same sprawl that fails at addressing climate challenges, the proposal reinforces the widening economic disparity in the region....
Posted: Sat, Dec 3, 2022 1:01pm PST
The Befouling of Point Reyes National Seashore
Author Peter Byrne exposes an environmental cover-up at Point Reyes National Seashore...
Posted: Fri, Nov 25, 2022 11:26pm PST
UN Climate Conference Agrees on Fund to Address Climate Change Impacts in Developing Count
COP27 Agreement Asserts Climate Change Results in High Debts and Development Failures...
Posted: Fri, Nov 25, 2022 9:57am PST
LA City Councilmember Koretz's Last Call For Aggressive Climate Action
Koretz introduced three pieces of aggressive climate legislation: one aimed to ban the sale of new gas cars in stages, beginning in 2028 with the most expensive vehicles to fully implement by 2030; one to create a significant greenhouse gas emissions fee for private jets landing at Los Angeles airports; and one aimed to use the truth of the dangers posed to LAX and Silicon Beach by the SoCalGas Playa Vista Natural Gas Storage facility to shut it down...
Posted: Wed, Nov 23, 2022 3:51pm PST
COP27: Militarism Fuels the Climate Crisis
CODEPINK will join hundreds of high school students from all over the Bay Area, led by the group Youth Vs. Apocalypse (YVA), for a COP27 Climate Strike march with the theme “Militarism and Climate”....
Posted: Mon, Nov 7, 2022 10:32pm PST
Biden and 90 Other Heads of State Descend on COP27 United Nations Climate Summit
Resources for Climate Action and Poor are Major Themes for Egypt Meetings...
Posted: Fri, Nov 4, 2022 1:28pm PDT
Let the advertising die!
Advertising leads to useless purchases because it often persuades consumers to have needs instead of satisfying existing desires. This leads to excessive consumption of resources and materials and thus damages the environment. The advertising industry represents a waste of human creativity for profit purposes and stimulates cut-throat competition among supplier companies....
Posted: Wed, Nov 2, 2022 10:14am PDT
Oil refinery quintuples 3rd quarter profits with windfall of $50 million off CA consumers
Oil refinery profits have skyrocketed while consumers pay inflated prices at the pump. Gov. Newsom's special session on Dec. 5 for a windfall tax on oil companies has wide support....
Posted: Tue, Oct 25, 2022 3:49pm PDT
Maui Lighting Ordinance Victory for Seabirds, Turtles
KAHULUI, Hawai‘i, October 25, 2022 — In a victory for seabirds and turtles, Maui today approved an ordinance regulating the amount of blue light that outdoor lighting fixtures can emit on the island. The ordinance, which was supported by the Center for Biological Diversity, Conservation Council of Hawai‘i and Earthjustice, will help endangered sea turtles and Hawaiian petrels....
Posted: Tue, Oct 25, 2022 3:36pm PDT
EOPA California welcomes BOEM’s news that Morro Bay offshore wind leasing can move forward
On October 5, 2022, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced the completion of its environmental review of potential impacts from offshore wind energy leasing activities in the Morro Bay Wind Energy Area (WEA), located 20 miles offshore central California. EOPA CA wants the federal offshore wind goal to be increased...
Posted: Fri, Oct 14, 2022 5:07pm PDT
Elected officials back Newsom’s special session request for windfall tax on oil companies
Hundreds of CA elected officials thank Newsom for his leadership proposing a windfall tax on oil companies to stem price gouging and the climate crisis....
Posted: Fri, Oct 14, 2022 4:51pm PDT
Everyone Under the Sun Rally & Festival in Sacramento October 11
Solar power is at risk in CA because special interests don't want clean, affordable electric energy for communities and have been trying to tax it at the Capitol the rally lets them know people need to be treated equitably and don't want the tax....
Posted: Tue, Oct 4, 2022 4:46pm PDT
Elected officials encourage EPA to use California standards as baseline for Clean Cars
Over 600 elected officials support the Biden-Harris Administration in implementing stronger vehicle standards to reduce carbon emissions by 2030. They also want the nation to apply CA's strong clean car standards as soon as possible....
Posted: Wed, Sep 28, 2022 12:10pm PDT
Beyond Oil & Gas Alliance urged to deliver on real climate leadership during Climate Week
During Climate Week NYC, after a high level event organized by the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance on the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York, civil society organizations launch a position paper urging the coalition and its members to deliver on commitments to promote a global phase out of oil and gas production, and turn aspirations into bold and ambitious climate action in line with equity, justice, and science. While CA had major laws passed this session, worldwide BOGA should do m...
Posted: Wed, Sep 21, 2022 10:52am PDT
Economic war instead of climate policy & Russia as enemy
Sustainability and capitalism do not go together. Because capitalism needs growth and drives environmental destruction. The consequences: Species extinction, drought stress for trees, water scarcity. A consistent climate policy would have to get down to the nitty-gritty, but at present it is overshadowed by the economic war....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2022 9:58am PDT
Only a progressive tax revolution can stop climate collapse
There is an urgent need for a pluralistic opening of the economic sciences, so that the argumentative dispute about the ethically correct interpretation of market-competitive interaction relations and the status of market logic again becomes a normal part of economic discourse....
Posted: Tue, Aug 30, 2022 6:45am PDT
No Flat Country for Old Growth
Forest Defenders drop banners, occupy trees and demand Biden stay true to his word to protect forests as expressed in his Executive Order....
Posted: Fri, Aug 19, 2022 10:12pm PDT
By 5 pm Today (Fri.) & over the next few days!: Diablo Canyon nuclear plant Urgent Action!
A bill to “loan” PG&E up to $1.4 billion to extend Diablo Canyon’s operating life will be voted on by the end of this month. The deadline to submit comments to the California Energy Commission is TODAY (Friday, August 19) at 5:00 pm!...
Posted: Fri, Aug 19, 2022 1:41pm PDT
UC Using CIA Methods at People's Park
In 1975 The Church Committee discovered Operation Mockingbird a CIA program which attempted to manipulate domestic American news media for propaganda purposes. Almost 50 years later U.C. is using the same technique to destroy Peoples Park....
Posted: Fri, Aug 12, 2022 2:09pm PDT