California’s Polluters Pay Climate Superfund
We’ve paid enough. It’s time to make polluters pay.
Every year, major oil companies are making billions overcharging Californians at the pump. Meanwhile, we’re paying billions more for the climate crisis they’ve helped cause.
Tens of thousands have lost their homes to wildfires and floods. Wildfire smoke, air pollution, and extreme heat are sending thousands more to the hospital each year. Home insurance costs are skyrocketing, and the financial impacts of sea level rise loom large.
Disaster recovery is hitting state and local budgets hard, jeopardizing public services, and forcing taxpayers to carry the burden.
The Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act is the common-sense solution we need.
Climate-driven disasters like wildfires and floods are costing the state billions annually, leading to skyrocketing home insurance premiums and strained public budgets that force taxpayers to shoulder recovery costs.
The Climate Superfund could raise tens of billions to lower costs and keep Californians safe. That means:
Investments in an affordable clean energy transition
Reliable transit and electric vehicle access for all.
Home hardening and wildfire prevention.
Air filters and AC for climate-safe schools.
Supporting the essential workers responding to climate disasters.
At least 40% of the funds will benefit the very communities hardest-hit by climate pollution, and strong labor and job standards will ensure equity in the clean energy transition.
Vermont and New York already have Climate Superfund laws on the books. Campaigns are on the move in a dozen other states.
It’s time for a Climate Superfund in California
Ready to Make Polluters Pay?
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Our campaign is supported by 250+ climate, labor, health and community organizations:
1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations
198 methods
350 Bay Area Action
350 Conejo / San Fernando Valley
350 Contra Costa Action
350 Humboldt
350 Marin
350 Sacramento
350 San Francisco
350 Santa Barbara
350 Sonoma
350 South Bay Los Angeles
350 Southland Legislative Alliance
350 Ventura County Climate Hub
350.org
ACCE (Alliance of Californians For Community Empowerment)
Acterra: Action for a Healthy Planet
Action for the Climate Emergency (ACE)
Active San Gabriel Valley
AFT 1521
All Things Bayview
American Academy of Pediatrics, California
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
American Lung Association
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders for Civic Empowerment (AAPI FORCE)
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Associated Students Coastal Fund
Avaaz
Azul
Ballona Wetlands Institute
Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative (BARHII)
Bay Area Youth Climate Summit
Bay Area-System Change not Climate Change
Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory
Better APC
Better Future Project
Beyond Extreme Energy
Bicycling Monterey
BikeLA
Biofuelwatch
Black Mountain Democratic Club (San Diego)
Black Women for Wellness Action Project
Breast Cancer Prevention Partners
CA Working Families Party
CA Youth vs. Big Oil
California Alliance for Community
California Association of Professional Employees (CAPE)
California Black Power Network
California Calls
California Climate Voters
California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA) Action
California Environmental Voters
California Federation of Teachers
California Green New Deal Coalition
California Institute for Biodiversity
California Interfaith Power & Light
California National Organization for Women
California Native Vote Project
California Nurses Association
California Nurses for Environmental Health and Justice
California Public Banking Alliance
Californians Against Waste
CALPIRG Students
Carbon Cycle Institute
CCAN Action Fund
Center for Biological Diversity
Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice (CCAEJ)
Center for Developing Leadership in Science
Center for Environmental Health
Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment
Central California Asthma Collaborative
Central California Environmental Justice Network
CERBAT
Change Begins With ME (Indivisible)
Church and Society of First Presbyterian Church of San Anselmo
Clean and Healthy California
Clean Water Action California
CleanEarth4Kids.org
Climate Action California
Climate Action Campaign
Climate Defenders / Defensores De La Tierra
Climate Equity Policy Center
Climate First: Replacing Oil & Gas (CFROG)
Climate Hawks Vote
Climate Health Now
Climate Justice Group, First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego
Climate Reality Project, California Coalition
Climate Reality Project, Orange County
Climate Reality Project, San Diego
Climate Reality Project, San Fernando Valley
Climate Reality Project, San Francisco Bay Area
Climate Reality Project, Silicon Valley Chapter
Climate Resolve
CLUE-Santa Barbara Climate Justice Group
Coalition for Clean Air
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, CHIRLA
Coastal Defenders
Coastal Lands Action Network
Communities for a Better Environment
Community Environmental Council
Conejo Climate Coalition
Consumer Attorneys of CA
Consumer Watchdog
Courage California
Culver City Democratic Club
Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action
Defend Ballona Wetlands
Dolores Huerta Foundation
Dr. Bronner's
Earth Ethics. Inc.
Eco Office of ASUC Senator China Duff
Ekō
Elected Officials to Protect America
Endangered Habitats League
Environmental Center of San Diego
Environmental Defense Center
Equal Rights Advocates
Evergreen Action
Extinction Rebellion San Francisco Bay Area
Extreme Weather Survivors
Families Advocating for Chemical and Toxics Safety
Food & Water Watch
Fossil Free California
Fossil Free Media
FracTracker Alliance
Fridays for Future Palo Alto
Fridays for Future Sacramento
Friends Committee on Legislation of California
Friends of the Earth
Friends of the River
Frontline Catalysts
Glendale Environmental Coalition
Good Neighbor Steering Committee of Benicia
Great Basin Land & Water
GreenFaith
Greenpeace USA
GRID Alternatives
Human Impact Partners
ILWU Northern California District Council
Immaculate Heart Community Environmental Commission
Indivisible CA Green Team
Indivisible CA: StateStrong
Indivisible East Bay
Indivisible Fremont CA
Indivisible Marin
Initiate Justice
Interfaith Solidarity Network
Isla Vista Surfrider Foundation Club
Isla Vista Trading Post
La Clinica de La Raza, Inc.
LA Forward
Little Manila Rising
Long Beach Alliance for Clean Energy
Los Angeles Climate Reality Project
Los Angeles Faith & Ecology Network
Los Padres ForestWatch
Make Polluters Pay National Campaign
Marie Harrison Community Foundation
Marin Interfaith Climate Action
Martin Luther King Jr. Democratic Club
Mill Valley Seniors for Peace
Mothers Out Front Silicon Valley
Move LA
Natural Resources Defense Council
NextGen California
No Drilling Contra Costa
NorCal Elder Climate Action
Oakland Education Association
Oil and Gas Action Network
Oil Change International
Our Revolution
Our Time to Act
Oxfam America
Pacific Beach Coalition
Pacific Environment
Pacifica Climate Committee
Physicians for Social Responsibility, Los Angeles
Physicians for Social Responsibility, Pennsylvania
Physicians for Social Responsibility, Sacramento
Physicians for Social Responsibility, San Francisco Bay
Plant Based Treaty Los Angeles
PODER
Presente.org
Prevention Institute
Progressive Democratic Club (Los Angeles County)
Protect Monterey County
Protect Playa Now
Public Citizen
Public Good Law Center
Public Health Advocates
QuitCarbon
RAC-CA
Reclaim Our Power!
Redeemer Community Partnership
Regional Asthma Management & Prevention (RAMP)
Resilient Palisades
Rise Economy
Rising Sun Center for Opportunity
RootsAction.org
Sacramento Splash
San Diego Pediatricians for Clean Air
San Diego Educators Association
San Francisco Baykeeper
SanDiego350
Santa Cruz Climate Action Network
Santa Cruz County Democratic Central Committee
Santa Monica Democratic Club
SEE (Social Eco Education)
Sierra Club California
Silicon Valley Youth Climate Action
SLO County Citizens' Climate Education
SoCal 350 Climate Action
SoCal Elders Climate Action
Society of Native Nations
Southern California Public Health Association
Spottswoode Winery, Inc.
Stand.earth
Strategic Concepts In Organizing and Policy Education
Sunflower Alliance
Sunnyvale Safe Streets
Sunrise Bay Area
Sunrise Movement
Sunrise Movement LA
Sustainable Mill Valley
Sustainable Rossmoor
Synergistic Solutions
The Aquarian Minyan
The Climate Center
The Phoenix Group
The Story of Stuff Project
The Wendy and Eric Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment at UC Berkeley
Third Act
Third Act Sacramento
Third Act SF Bay Area
Third Act SoCal
Third Act Upstate New York
TIAA-Divest!
Tikva Grassroots Empowerment Fund
Transition Sebastopol
Tri-Valley Air Quality Climate Alliance
UCSB AS Environmental Affairs Board
UNIDOS Network Inc
Union of Concerned Scientists
United Teachers Los Angeles
Ventura Climate Coalition
Ventura County YIMBY
Vote Solar
Voters of Tomorrow
Voting 4 Climate & Health
Wellness Equity Alliance
West Berkeley Alliance for Clean Air and Safe Jobs
WildEarth Guardians
Youth For Earth
Youth v. Oil
Youth Will
Youth4Climate
Youthpower Climate Action
…and 30 cities, counties and school boards representing over 50% of the state’s population:
Agoura Hills
Albany
Alameda Unified School District
Berkeley
Berkeley Unified School District
City of Alameda
City of Los Angeles
City of Sacramento
City of San Diego
City of San Jose
City of Santa Barbara
Corte Madera
Cotati
Eagle Rock
Hillsborough
La Mesa
Laguna Beach
Oakland
Oakland Unified School District
Oxnard
Port Hueneme
Richmond
San Diego Unified School District
San Francisco County
San Mateo County
Santa Barbara County
Santa Clara County
Santa Cruz County
Sebastopol
Sonoma County
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