[Occupymendocino] Fw: A license to pollute is a license to kill

[Ann Rennacker]

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From: Adam Scow, Food & Water Watch <act at fwwatch.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 2:04 PM
To: Ann Rennacker
Subject: A license to pollute is a license to kill

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End Big Oil & Gas' License to Pollute in CA


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Dear Ann,

Big oil companies and Governor Brown are teaming up to ram cap and trade through the California Legislature. Cap and trade is a corporate-friendly scheme that lets billion-dollar oil and gas corporations pay for their pollution instead of requiring them to make real reductions.

California has some of the nation’s worst air quality and is the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the United States after Texas. A real solution would require that the fossil fuel industry reduces its pollution at the exact source.

Urge your state legislators to stand up to the fossil fuel industry and oppose cap and trade in California!<http://act.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/R?i=p_sleBggtepzDud35cazTQ>

Pro-fracking Governor Brown has been getting praise for criticizing Trump on climate change, yet his effort to extend cap and trade is a dangerous and false solution to greenhouse gas pollution. Brown and Big Oil have helped craft Assembly Bill 398, a bill that would prolong cap and trade through 2030 and undermine the fight against extreme climate change.

Cap and trade allows refineries and power plants to simply pay for their emissions rather than requiring them to reduce emissions. It is no surprise that the oil and gas lobby is supporting cap and trade since these large corporations, such as Chevron, can easily pay for their emissions with the billions that they rake in every year. Even worse, the bill would prohibit local jurisdictions from setting higher standards!

Studies show that emissions in California have increased or stayed the same from refineries and oil and gas drilling1. If we are serious about avoiding severe climate change impacts, such as droughts and 10 feet of sea-level rise, we have to significantly lower our emissions NOW.

Tell your legislator to stand up to corporate polluters and help put a stop to climate change!<http://act.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/R?i=7M1vshZuLfnNS0N7VTOzOA>

Every year thousands of Californians die from dirty air and thousands more become chronically sick. California has a responsibility to reduce its pollution not only to lead the nation against climate change, but to improve the health of its residents.

Your legislators are being pressured by Brown and the oil and gas lobby to pass a cap-and-trade bill quickly.

While they still don't have the votes they need to pass cap-and-trade legislation, they are working hard in back rooms to pressure legislators to get on board with this pay-to-pollute scheme.

Your legislator needs to hear from you! Let your legislators know that you value clean air and a livable climate, not schemes that poison our communities and threaten our climate.<http://act.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/R?i=Tx9WSPCVQh6FqvJ5-A6rGQ>

Onward Together,

[Adam Scow]

Adam Scow
California State Director
Food & Water Watch
ascow(at)fwwatch(dot)org

1. "A Preliminary Environmental Equity Assessment of California's Cap and Trade Program<http://act.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/R?i=gQ8UBGkwhYfW-RIF2z-Lrw>," USC Dornsife, September 2016.


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