"We applaud the call for an inter-agency process to coordinate the phasedown of oil refining and extraction in California. However, the plan still paves the way for billions in subsidies for oil and gas executives by using carbon capture schemes...." - Mabel Tsang, CEJA Political Dir.
This is the final push: join us to urge Governor Newsom and the state air and climate regulator to prioritize a fossil fuel phaseout and no CCUS in the state climate plan.
We are writing on behalf of 56 organizations and researchers to request an investigation of the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory advocacy effort promoting carbon capture to
California regulators, legislators, schools, and community groups, and the funding arrangement
for that campaign.
Working families, advocates say state draft plan is grossly out of touch with lived reality in communities that experience suffocating pollution and doubles down on fossil fuels at a time when California needs real climate solutions
Seventy-three organizations sent a letter to Governor Newsom and the California Air Resources Board today criticizing its plan for reaching carbon neutrality, saying the plan is a setback for the state and the world.
Today, the California Air Resources Board released a draft of the state’s 2022 Climate Change Scoping Plan Update. Environmental justice groups slammed the draft plan, citing its failure to phase out fossil fuel production, lack of investment in clean transportation for low-income Californians, and dependence on failed carbon capture and other polluting technologies.
In a letter sent Wednesday, environmental justice groups called on CARB to set California on a path toward a full, coordinated phaseout of polluting oil refineries by 2045; scaled up investments in mass transit, electric car and truck programs for low-income Californians; and the elimination of climate policy dead-ends in the 2022 climate change scoping plan.
“Wilmington residents have lived with the dangerous health impacts of oil drilling for far too long. The Governor’s announcement regarding the CALGEM rulemaking shows us that the Newsom administration is listening to us,” said Wendy Miranda, Wilmington Community Member, CBE.