Urgent Climate Legislation Action for CA

[350kitty]

From: 350Sonoma Member <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 3:48 PM
Subject: [350Sonoma Climate Action] Urgent CA Climate legislation action

Can you take five minutes for urgent action on the climate? Deadline this Thursday.

California’s current cap and trade program expires in 2020. SB 775 (Wieckowski), is the Senate leadership’s plan to strengthen and improve the program, and is supported by climate activists around the state.

However, we heard on Friday, June 30 the rumor that Governor Brown may be willing to compromise with the oil industry if the legislature can't pass SB 775, and might release his own bill Thursday, July 6. In the meantime, we need to work to support a strong and fair program and SB 775 fits the bill.

To that end, Assembly Member Cristina Garcia (AD58, Bell Gardens) is collecting signatures on a letter that clearly defines the elements of a good bill -- and a good successor to the current cap and trade program.

Neither Assembly Member Jim Wood (District 2) nor Assembly Member Marc Levine (District 10) have signed onto Cristina Garcia’s letter.

Please call them and ask them to sign onto the letter and to support SB 775. (Here’s a link of you’re not sure who your Assembly Member is.)

Jim Wood916.319.2002

Marc Levine916.319.2010

Here is the key excerpt from Cristina Garcia’s letter:

If cap and trade is extended...it must be designed in a manner that maintains environmental integrity, supports our long-term environmental and air quality goals, and assures that disproportionate pollution burdens are alleviated not exacerbated. We do not support proposals to use cap and trade to let major polluters off the hook for achieving real emissions reductions in California.

Thank you for being part of 350 Sonoma. We appreciate your attention and engagement!



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