Bay Area System Change not Climate Change

https://www.yournec.org/core-hub-community-benefit-agreements-and-offshore-wind/

CORE Hub: Community Benefit Agreements and Offshore Wind | NEC EcoNewsMarch 2026 CORE Hub: Community Benefit Agreements and Offshore Wind By Aerin Monroe - March 1, 2026 An offshore wind turbine. Source: Wikimedia Commons For coastal California communities, our choices about offshore wind today will determine whether we generate local jobs, protect the environm...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/feb/26/benicia-california-oil-refinery

An oil refinery defined life in this quaint California city. What happens when it’s gone? For decades, the Valero refinery shaped Benicia’s economy, politics and health. Now the city has become a reluctant test case of whether an oil town can reinvent itself

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/affordability-and-climate-california

Affordability, Authoritarianism, and the Climate Crisis: The Fight in California | Common Dreams ​There are real challenges that must be addressed to transition to a clean energy economy while maintaining affordability. And there are difficulties that are intentionally caused by the fossil fuel industry’s insistence on fighting a transition away from dependence on its products.

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2026/02/activists-racking-up-wins-against-biomass-false-climate-solution/

Activists are racking up wins against a false climate solution Across North America and Europe, a movement is taking on the biomass industry and saving some of the world’s last intact forests.

https://sacramento.newsreview.com/2026/02/10/conservationists-keep-pushing-for-environmental-accountability-in-sacramento-but-more-new-oil-drilling-permits-were-approved-in-january-2026-than-all-of-2025/

Conservationists keep pushing for environmental accountability in Sacramento, but more new oil drilling permits were approved in January 2026 than all of 2025 • Sacramento News & Review Timely reports from Sacramento News & Review writers on breaking news and big issues.

https://blog.ucs.org/mark-specht/california-is-lagging-on-wind-development-why/

California is Lagging on Wind Development. Why? To achieve its clean energy goals, the state will need new wind power— far more than what its got today.

https://martineznewsandviews.substack.com/p/refinery-fire-one-year-later-steelworkers

Refinery Fire One Year Later: Steelworkers Rally for Safety, Mayor Calls for Improvements to Community Warning System Union criticizes move to amend Process Safety Management regulations; Zorn raises concerns about county's emergency alert system, including during Jan. 26 flaring event; latest on MUSD, city budgets

https://www.mobilize.us/mayday/event/881872/

Chevron Richmond Refinery - No Occupation of Venezuela, No Occupation of Our Cities · May Day Strong Join a coalition of Bay Area groups as we rebuke the occupation of Venezuela for oil extraction. We decry that Chevron profits from occupation of Venezuela and Palestine, and benefits from the destabilization of other countries like Ecuador, Myanmar, the Philippines and beyond. Meet at gate 14 of th...

https://www.mobilize.us/sunrisemovement/event/880913/

One Year Later: LA Fires Anniversary Rally Against Big Oil · Sunrise Movement Join Sunrise Foothills and Sunrise Los Angeles for a rally and march in Altadena to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the January 2025 wildfires and demand an urgent transition away from fossil fuels in California. As we witness extreme weather events in Los Angeles and the US invasion of Vene...

https://www.mobilize.us/sunrisemovement/event/880906/

One Year Later: LA Fires Anniversary Rally Against Big Oil · Sunrise Movement After a year of further government negligence and destruction, we are gathering in San Francisco to commemorate the LA Wildfires Anniversary and demand California break free from fossil fuels. Our country has spent more money on border militarization than on climate mitigation or adaptation. As a re...

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1110035

Fossil fuel industry’s “climate false solutions” reinforce its power and aggravate environmental injustice Many so-called low-carbon projects promoted by major oil and gas companies — including hydrogen, biofuels, carbon capture and storage, and carbon offsetting — operate as false solutions that not only fail to effectively reduce emissions, but also prolong the lifespan of fossil....