STATEMENT FROM THE CAMPAIGN FOR A SAFE AND HEALTHY CALIFORNIA ON PASSAGE OF BILL ABX2-1
SACRAMENTO, CA - The Campaign for a Safe and Healthy California applauds the California State Legislature for passage of ABX2-1 (Hart), requiring oil refiners to keep minimum inventories in order to protect Californians from price spikes.
“Big Oil uses every dirty trick in the book to drive up prices for consumers and the passage of ABX2-1 is an important step in stopping the oil industry’s perpetual price gouging,” said Vivian Yi Huang 黄绮慧, CSHC Steering Committee Member and Co-Director of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network.
“The health and well being of our communities has suffered for far too long at the hands of Big Oil’s greed – they’ll stop at nothing to make astronomical profits, said Bahram Fazeli, Director of Research & Policy at Communities for a Better Environment (CBE). “With the passage of this bill, we’re finally creating some accountability for Big Oil, instead of leaving the public at their unrelenting mercy.”
CSHC is an organization which began with community leaders standing up to toxic oil drilling in their neighborhoods and grew in 2024 to include more than 400 organizations, labor unions, community and faith leaders, two Governors of California, public health groups, and environmental justice leaders from across California joined together to stop an oil industry ballot referendum overreach and hold oil companies accountable for creating a public health crisis, especially for communities of color.
For more information about our campaign, please visit our website at: CAvsBigOil.com
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