The City of Los Angeles and our city's public utility, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), are set to unveil a comprehensive roadmap with different pathways for how LA could achieve 100% clean energy.
However, only a few of those pathways actually get Los Angeles off of fossil fuels -- some of the proposals even allow the purchase of nuclear and other energy sources that are mislabeled "renewable" but actually pollute.
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The LADWP is one of the first utilities in the country proposing a practical and detailed plan for how we can get our city to 100% clean energy. The utility has been working on this plan in partnership with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory since 2016 and it includes increased use of electric vehicles and electrifying our homes.
While it is exciting to see many possible pathways for achieving a 100% clean energy future, the LA City Council and the Board of the LADWP need to hear from you that the only acceptable plan is one that transitions LA to 100% clean energy as soon as possible, and eliminates dependence on hazardous energy sources.
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With rising temperatures, dangerous air quality, wildfires, and an increase of other extreme weather events, it is more important than ever to accelerate our transition away from fossil fuels and double down on clean energy investments.
Thanks for all you do for people and planet.
Francis Yang
Organizing Representative
My Generation Campaign
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Please join Mayor Eric Garcetti, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, leading energy scientists, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and local elected officials on Wednesday, March 24, 2021 from 9AM - 10AM PST to release the findings of the Los Angeles 100% Renewable Energy Study (LA100) -- an unprecedented analysis of pathways the City can pursue to reach a 100% renewable energy grid while prioritizing equity and maintaining reliability and affordability.
This groundbreaking study led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in conjunction with LADWP demonstrates that L.A.’s commitment to 100% renewable energy laid out in L.A.’s Green New Deal is achievable and provides critical insights into key decision points and action steps along the way.
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Dear friends and allies of STAND-LA,
We would like to invite you to join STAND-LA (Stand Together Against Neighborhood Oil Drilling — Los Angeles) for a virtual town hall event on Thursday, March 25th from 6 PM-8 PM. Please RSVP here.
What: STAND-LA Virtual Town Hall & Toxic Tour
When: Thursday, March 25th, 6 PM - 8 PM
This event will feature:
- Our first-ever “virtual toxic tour” of oil drilling sites from Wilmington to South LA to Mid-City and downtown featuring voices and stories of frontline residents and advocates.
- A question-and-answer session with LA City Councilmembers Nury Martinez, Marqueece Harris-Dawson and Kevin De Léon about their plan to lead Los Angeles in a phase-out of oil drilling city-wide.
- An overview of STAND-L.A.'s campaign to end urban oil drilling, the current status of the motion to pursue a citywide phase-out, and key demands for 2021.
If you believe there should be no drilling where we’re living -- or you are interested in learning more about the issue -- and you want to know the steps that LA City Council is taking and what YOU can do to phase-out oil drilling citywide, be there and help spread the word far and wide.
Together, we will phase out oil drilling in the city of Los Angeles and bring environmental justice to impacted residents, frontline communities, and Black and Brown Angelenos who have lived far too long in the toxic shadow of Big Oil.
In appreciation and solidarity,
STAND-LA
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Support the Statewide Push for 2,500-foot Setbacks
This year, California has the chance to address toxic oil and gas drilling in neighborhoods through SB 467 - the Dangerous Drilling Bill.
This legislation bans dangerous drilling techniques and creates 2,500 protective setbacks between oil and gas sites and our homes, schools, medical facilities, and prisons. Right now in a pandemic, the health of frontline communities is on the line, We can’t keep waiting and breathing in polluted air.
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Make a video! Toolkit here. Please feel free to adjust the script according to your local situation and issues. This is the main ask from the bill sponsor and our EJ partners VISION and CRPE at this time.
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Write a Letter to the Editor. Toolkit here.
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Take action to #StandwithKern by signing here: http://sc.org/kernoil
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photo by Peter Bennett
One of the state’s most polluted counties is poised to rubber stamp new oil and gas wells for decades to come—putting its most vulnerable residents at risk.
Yet even as the county acknowledges that new wells approved under the ordinance will worsen local air pollution, the majority of dollars in a mitigation fund established to offset this pollution are unlikely to go to the communities most burdened by new wells, according to Capital & Main’s analysis of the fund.
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