CAMPAIGN FOR A SAFE AND HEALTHY CALIFORNIA ANNOUNCES ENDORSEMENT FROM THE COALITION FOR CLEAN AIR, SUPPORTING REFERENDUM TO KEEP THE LAW PROTECTING NEIGHBORHOODS FROM TOXIC DRILLING
SACRAMENTO – Today the Campaign for a Safe and Healthy California announced an endorsement from the Coalition for Clean Air (CCA), as supporters continue to grow for the referendum campaign that will “uphold” historic law (SB1137) preventing toxic oil drilling near schools, hospitals, and neighborhoods.
Campaign endorsers include public health groups, community and faith organizations, and environmental justice leaders from across California, working to hold oil companies accountable for creating a public health crisis, especially for communities of color.
“Nearly every Californian breathes air that fails air quality standards, putting their health and their lives at risk,” said Christopher Chavez, Deputy Policy Director, Coalition for Clean Air. “That risk is even higher for the nearly three million Californians that live near oil and gas wells due to increased exposure to carcinogenic and health-harming pollution. Establishing a safety barrier between people and oil wells is common sense; but Big Oil is trying to buy your vote so they can continue drilling under homes, schools, and parks. Don’t fall for Big Oil’s big bucks and take a stand for your health – vote to uphold the safety barrier between oil and gas wells and you.”
CCA was founded in 1971 and is California’s only statewide organization working exclusively on air quality issues.
Below please find a complete list of campaign endorsers:
1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations
350 Bay Area Action
350 Conejo / San Fernando Valley
350 Corvallis
350 Humboldt
350 Long Beach
350 Marin
350 Petaluma
350 Sacramento
350 San Diego
350 Santa Barbara
350 Ventura County Climate Hub
Active San Gabriel Valley
Alameda County Democratic Party
Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Ballona Wetlands Institute
Ban SUP (Single Use Plastic)
Bay Area System Change Not Climate Change
Biofuelwatch
Breast Cancer Action
California Central Coast Climate Justice Network
California Climate Voters
California Environmental Justice Alliance Action (CEJA Action)
California Environmental Voters
California Green New Deal Coalition
California Interfaith Power & Light
California Nurses for Environmental Health and Justice
California Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
Californians Against Waste
Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice
Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment
Central California Asthma Collaborative
Central California Environmental Justice Network
Central Coast Climate Justice Network
Central Valley Air Quality Coalition
CERBAT
Citizens’ Climate Lobby Santa Cruz
Clean Water Action
Climate 911
Climate Action California
Clean Earth 4 Kids
Climate Equity Policy Center
Climate First: Replacing Oil & Gas (CFROG)
Climate Hawks Vote
Climate Health Now
Climate Justice Ministry Team, Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church
Climate Reality Project: Monterey Bay CA Chapter
Climate Reality Project: San Fernando Valley Chapter
Climate Reality Project: Silicon Valley Chapter
Climate Tzedek - Congregation Netivot Shalom
Coalition for Clean Air
Coltura Conejo
Climate Coalition
Consumer Watchdog
Corvallis Climate Action Alliance
Corvallis Interfaith Climate Justice Committee
Courage California
Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action
Defend Ballona Wetlands
Democrats of Rossmoor
Ecology Center
El Pueblo Para el Aire y Agua Limpia de Kettleman City
Elders Climate Action, NorCal
Elected Officials to Protect America (EOPA) - Code Blue
Environmental Defense Center
Environmental Democrats of Sacramento
Environmental Working Group
Esperanza Community Housing
Extinction Rebellion & Mothers Rebellion-Sacramento
Extinction Rebellion Los Angeles
Extinction Rebellion San Francisco Bay Area
Families Advocating for Chemical and Toxics Safety
Food & Water Watch
Fossil Free California
Fossil Free UCD (UC Davis)
FracTracker Alliance
Friends of the Earth Action
Glendale Environmental Coalition
Grandparents in Action
Green Team, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Marin
Hollywood Climate Summit
Holman United Methodist Church
Human Impact Partners
Indivisible Alta Pasadena
Indivisible CA Green Team
Indivisible Marin
Indivisible Northridge
Indivisible Santa Cruz County
Indivisible San Jose
Indivisible Ventura
Indivisible Yolo
Long Beach Gray Panthers
Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust
Los Padres Forest Watch
Manhattan Beach Huddle
Marin City Climate Resilience and Health Justice
Marin Interfaith Climate Action
Monterey Bay CA Chapter Climate Reality Project
Mothers Out Front
No Drilling Contra Costa
North County Watch
Novasutras
Ocean Conservation Research
Oil and Gas Action Network
Oil Change International
Oil Change US
Pacific Environment
Pacifica Climate Committee
Pacoima Beautiful
Pelican Media
Physicians for Social Responsibility/Los Angeles
Physicians for Social Responsibility/Sacramento
Physicians for Social Responsibility/San Francisco
Planning and Conservation League
PODER (People Organizing to Demand Environmental & Economic Rights)
PolicyLink
Presente.org
Redeemer Community Partnership
Rise Economy (formerly California Reinvestment Coalition)
Rising Sun Center for Opportunity
Rooted in Resistance (Indivisible)
RootsAction.org
San Francisco Baykeeper
San Francisco Marin Medical Society
Santa Barbara Standing Rock Coalition
Santa Cruz Climate Action Network
Save Our Shores
Save the Albatross Coalition
SEE (Social Eco Education)
Sierra Club California
SoCal 350 Climate Action
Social Justice Ministry, Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Society of Fearless Grandmothers-Santa Barbara
Stand.earth
Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education
Sunflower Alliance
Sunrise Movement LA
Surfrider Foundation
Sustainable Mill Valley
Sustainable Rossmoor
The 5 Gyres Institute
The Children's Partnership
The Climate Alliance of Santa Cruz County
The Climate Center
The Last Plastic Straw
The River Project
The Wilderness Society
Transition Sebastopol
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Marin
VISIÓN (Voices in Solidarity Against Oil in Neighborhoods)
Vote Solar
Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club
West Berkeley Alliance for Clean Air and Safe Jobs
Wishtoyo Foundation
Yellow Dot Studios
Youth Climate Strike Los Angeles
Youth v. Oil
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