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
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Climate Superfund Factsheet
Myth Buster
Superfund Fee vs Big Oil Profits
The Strong Legal Basis for a Climate Superfund
Community Benefits
Climate Attribution Science: An Explainer
Health Costs
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Our campaign is supported by 250+ climate, labor, health and community organizations:
198 methods
1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations
350 Bay Area Action
350 Conejo / San Fernando Valley
350 Humboldt
350 Sacramento
350 Santa Barbara
350 Southland Legislative Alliance
350 Ventura County Climate Hub
350.org
ACCE (Alliance of Californians For Community Empowerment)
Action for the Climate Emergency (ACE)
Active San Gabriel Valley
American Academy of Pediatrics, California
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Avaaz
Azul
Ballona Wetlands Institute
Bay Area-System Change not Climate Change
Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory
Better Future Project
Beyond Extreme Energy
Black Women for Wellness Action Project
CA Youth vs. Big Oil
California Climate Voters
California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA)
California Environmental Voters
California Federation of Teachers
California Green New Deal Coalition
California Interfaith Power & Light
California Nurses Association
California Nurses for Environmental Health and Justice
Carbon Cycle Institute
Center for Biological Diversity
Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice (CCAEJ)
Center for Diverse Leadership in Science
Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment
Central California Asthma Collaborative
Central California Environmental Justice Network
CERBAT
Chesapeake Climate Action Network
Citizens' Climate Lobby Santa Cruz chapter
Clean and Healthy California
CleanEarth4Kids.org
Climate Action California
Climate Action Campaign
Climate and Society Center, UC Berkeley
Climate Brunch
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 San Diego
Climate Reality Project San Francisco Bay Area
Climate Reality Project, Riverside County Chapter
Climate Reality Project, San Fernando Valley
Coastal Lands Action Network
Communities for a Better Environment
Consumer Watchdog
Courage California
Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action
Defend Ballona Wetlands
Dolores Huerta Foundation
Dr. Bronner's
Ekō
Elders Climate Action (ECA) Northern California (NorCal) Chapter
Elders Climate Action (ECA) Southern California (SoCal) Chapter
Elected Officials to Protect America
Endangered Habitats League
Evergreen Action
Extinction Rebellion Los Angeles
Extinction Rebellion San Francisco Bay Area
Families Advocating for Chemical and Toxics Safety
Food & Water Watch
Fossil Free California
Fossil Free Media
FracTracker Alliance
Fridays for Future Sacramento
Glendale Environmental Coalition
Good Neighbor Steering Committee of Benicia
Greenpeace USA
Human Impact Partners
Indivisible CA Green Team
Indivisible Marin
Labor Rise - Climate Jobs Action
Long Beach Alliance for Clean Energy
Los Angeles Climate Reality Project
Los Angeles Faith & Ecology Network
Marin Interfaith Climate Action
Midwest Building Decarbonization Coalition
NextGen California
No Drilling Contra Costa
Oil and Gas Action Network
Oil Change International
Our Revolution
Oxfam America
Physicians for Social Responsibility, Los Angeles
Physicians for Social Responsibility, Pennsylvania
Physicians for Social Responsibility, Sacramento
Physicians for Social Responsibility, San Francisco Bay
Protect Monterey County
Protect Playa Now
Public Citizen
Puvunga Wetland Protectors
Rachel Carson Council
Redeemer Community Partnership
Resilient Palisades
Rise Economy
Rising Sun Center for Opportunity
RootsAction.org
San Francisco Baykeeper
SanDiego350
Santa Cruz Climate Action Network
SEE (Social Eco Education)
Sequoiaforestkeeper.org
Seventh Generation
Sierra Club California
SoCal 350 Climate Action
Spottswoode Winery, Inc.
Stand.earth
Strategic Concepts In Organizing and Policy Education
Sunrise Bay Area
Sunrise Movement
Sunrise Movement LA
Sustainable Claremont
Sustainable Mill Valley
The Climate Center
The Climate Reality Project: California Coalition
The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment at Berkeley
The YEARS Project
Third Act
Third Act Sacramento
Third Act SF Bay Area
Third Act SoCal
TIAA-Divest!
VISIÓN (Voices in Solidarity Against Oil in Neighborhoods)
Vote Solar
Waterkeeper Alliance
West Berkeley Alliance for Clean Air and Safe Jobs
WildEarth Guardians
Women's Earth and Climate Action Network
Youth For Earth
Youth v. Oil
…and 30 cities, counties and school boards representing over 50% of the state’s population:
Agoura Hills
Albany
Alameda Unified School District
Berkeley
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 Francisco County
San Mateo County
Santa Barbara County
Santa Clara County
Santa Cruz County
Sebastopol
Sonoma County
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