My latest at @quittingcarbon.bsky.social: California is installing zero-emission electric appliances and energy-saving upgrades at no cost to low-income households under @calenergy.bsky.social's Equitable Building Decarbonization Program: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/california-i... 🔌💡

"Too many of our neighborhoods have carried the burden of industrial pollution for decades," said @rdparks.bsky.social, president of Redeemer Community Partnership. "Culver City's action shows that we don't have to choose between economic opportunity and community health." bit.ly/4ukpv16

So many friends, neigbhors, & allies worked for years to close the Jefferson Drill Site & aninmate a vision that attracted funding to buy the land for the blessing of our community. Great storytelling by PBS SoCal @standla.bsky.social @redeemercp.bsky.social @pbs.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWBc...

Visionary universities that serve without harm are moving away from gas combustion to clean, zero-emission heat. Kuddos to CSDH and UCI Hospital for leading the way. All eyes are on USC, the region's largest industrial gas boiler polluter. #WeCantBreathe

A spokesperson for the mayor said it was "startling" that SUVs were "77% more likely to kill a child if involved in a collision". London mayor turns society right side up by prioritizing child safety. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Adoption of electric vehicles tied to real-world reductions in air pollution, study finds keck.usc.edu/news/adoptio...

ATP projects fail for lack of Councilmember support either by passive or active opposition. Returning millions in grant funds is a failure of leadership and an act of violence against the most vulnerable.

"As a well gets older and production drops, it can become a “marginal well,” producing less than 630 gallons a day while contributing a disproportionate amount to emissions and the subsequent environmental and health risks."

☢️THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR LIFE—E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution. the EPA plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives. Gift🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

Hospitals and universities are major NOx polluters due to their use of industrial gas boilers. UCI's all electric hospital prioritizes public health with zero-emission alternatives. www.latimes.com/environment/...

"It’s a future where we no longer accept thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of broken spines as the price of mobility." It’s time to stop treating Waymo autonomous vehicles like a tech moonshot and start treating it like a public health intervention. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...

“The most direct implication is that clean air policies are brain health policies.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This American Lung Association report illustrates the potential for dramatic air quality and public health improvements in America’s industrial manufacturing sector: * 3,200 premature deaths avoided * 1,870,000 asthma attacks avoided * $47.5 billion in health benefits www.lung.org/clean-air/cl...

Our home is now gas free! We chipped away at it over several years. Each electric appliance has been an improvement over the gas one it replaced. Plus: lower utility bills, improved in-door air quality, no more gas leaks, and no more pollution vented into our community.

"Households that do not electrify may bear a 46% increase in gas bills on average over the next 15 years (relative to current costs)." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world. California is so far using 40% less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023. UK 2024 carbon emissions fell below what they were in 1879. www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

There is still time to benefit. Everything you need to know about which tax credits Congress just voted to eliminate, when they expire and who qualifies. wapo.st/4ldY3gK

What if a neighborhood could switch from gas to electric in one fell swoop? In California, work is underway to do just that.

@laist.com reporter Erin Stone focuses on advocates' urgent efforts to protect communities from oil sites' toxic health impacts even as they work with city leaders to end neighborhood oil drilling. @redeemercp.bsky.social @standla.bsky.social laist.com/news/climate...

We did it! With just 72-hour notice, neighbors came together to build a floating sign out of deer fencing and U-Haul tarps, and then turned out for a pop-up protest to protect our community from toxic acid work.

Looking to electrify your home? laist.com/news/climate...

A great start to the day! 25+ neighbors showed up to a pop-up rally outside the Murphy Drill Site to protest the oil company's scheduled acid work less than 1000' from 3 schools serving 1,300 students. The work was canceled. #EndNeighborhoodDrilling

Tomorrow, the LA Archdiocese will host a massive acid maintenance job at its Murphy oil drill site in South Central LA. 1,300 students attend class less than 1,000' away. Love of neighbor & care for our common home should trump greed. @gustavoarellano.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...

Good news! After overcoming design flaws and costly ($1M) copper wire theft, construction on the Jefferson Beautiful Safe Routes to School project is back on track. Looking forward to the repaired sidewalks, ramps, bike lanes, pedestrian lighting, signalized crossings, and street trees coming soon!

Full circle moment in South Central LA youth who marched with @redeemercp.bsky.social as children to close the Jefferson Drill Site returned to see the progress! They learned about the ongoing remediation & shared their powerful vision for a redeveloped space that will finally heal this community.

How to check your LA neighborhood's exposure to diesel truck fumes. "Diesel exhaust accounts for more than 2/3 of cancer risk from air pollution in the LA basin". Helpful research by Prof. Jill Johnston of the USC Center for Children's Environmental Health. laist.com/news/health/...

Fed-up with oil fumes in their classrooms & oil pollution in their neighborhood, South Central LA youth met with LA mayor Bass. Youth are defending our community & challenging the norms of corporate wealth before public health. May their love of neighbor & neighborhood inspire us to greater action.

Underscoring the urgent need to eliminate gas in homes: www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/c...

Good news for breathers! Today, @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, signed AB 3233 granting local jurisdictions authority to phase-out oil drilling. AB 3233 gives new life to LA's oil phase-out ordinance after the oil industry won a lawsuit overturning it. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/n...

Our community organized to close the Jefferson oil drill site and worked with Asm. Jones-Sawyer to secure a $10M grant to buy it. CalPoly Pomona landscape architecture students are helping our community imagine the possibilities for a neighborhood park, affordable housing, and a community center.

Milestone Reached In Inglewood Oil Phaseout Oil extraction to end by 2029 https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/milestone-reached-in-inglewood-oil-phaseout Via @LAist @Erstone7. @STAND_LA

Oil operator E&B thanks @Planning4LA and @CityAttorneyLA for all the money they saved the company by taking away health protections from South LA residents living next to the Murphy Drill Site. #EarlyChristmas! @MayorOfLA @STAND_LA @RedeemerCP

@Planning4LA & @CityAttorneyLA propose allowing oil company, E&B, to import & burn tens-of-millions of cubic feet of methane next to our homes & schools. Meanwhile, they have prohibited on-site power generation at West LA drill sites for decades. @STAND_LA @RedeemerCP @MayorOfLA

Oil drilling's myriad harms to public health are so clear, but @planning4la and @CityAttorneyLA continue to deny South LA residents equal protection. @STAND_LA, @RedeemerCP https://www.citywatchla.com/voices/27684-drilling-deception-e-bs-false-claims-in-south-la

LA breaks ground on the community led, $12.2 million Jefferson Beautiful safe routes to school project. Repaired sidewalks, street trees, pedestrian lighting, bike lanes, signalized crossings, and more coming to Jefferson Blvd. from Vermont Ave. west to Western Ave.

Big Oil plans to dine and dash, leaving taxpayers a bill that will "vastly exceed all the industry's future profits in the state." Now is the time to stop this theft w/higher bonding requirements. Excellent reporting by @MarkOlalde @propublica. @STAND_LA ...

South LA residents get a victory in their fight against Big Oil. @STAND_LA @RedeemerCP Excellent reporting by @jeremotographs @LAist https://laist.com/news/health/in-a-largely-black-and-latino-community-neighbors-worry-about-the-oil-wells-n-their-midst

@RedeemerCP organizing reaches a milestone as LA orders the Murphy Drill Site to be enclosed & electrified. These health protections were given to wealthier, West LA neighborhoods 20+ years ago. THANK YOU @Planning4LA @CityAttorneyLA @MayorOfLA! #EndNeighborhoodDrilling

LOL! Oil company lawsuit says "the city failed to do a required environmental study of the effects of stopping oil extraction." 🤔 @STAND_LA @redeemerCP #EndNeighborhoodDrilling https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-11/oil-company-sues-l-a-over-ban-on-drilling

Oil operator E&B "resisted" CalGEM's orders to cap a well. Last week it exploded seriously injuring a worker. LA puts South LA residents at-risk from E&B by withholding protections it gave wealthier, whiter, West LA neighborhoods 20+ years ago. @STAND_LA ...

CTC approves $26.3 million for the Normandie Beautiful active transportation project in South LA! The project creates safe routes to school for 9,000 students attending 14 schools and removes Normandie Ave. from the High Injury Network. @redeemercp #ATP

It was a VERY GOOD day for BREATHERS in LA. (1) LA votes to end oil drilling citywide (2) LA funds studies to expedite oil phase-out (3) Air District approves a $325,000/ton NOx cost effectiveness threshold.

Study finds toxic trespass into the bodies of residents living <1km from oil site. Elevated levels of toxic metals associated w/oil extraction are linked to Parkinson’s, lung cancer, CVD, & type 2 diabetes. #EndNeighborhoodDrilling @STAND_LA @RedeemerCP ...

South LA neighborhoods plagued by oil drilling lack the protections given to wealthier, whiter, West LA communities decades ago. TAKE ACTION: Urge LA to protect ALL of our children....

As 1,300 students started class less than 1,000' away, two 5,000-gallon tanker trucks rolled on to the LA Catholic Archdiocese's oil site to perform unpermitted acid maintenance. 3rd time this year. Sacrificial zoning, malign neglect, & env. racism by @Planning4LA.

.@vbertoni, @CityAttorneyLA refuse to stop Big Oil's unpermitted acid maintenance, so it keeps happening. South LA residents woke up to toxic acid work next door to our homes, health centers, schools and daycares with no notice. @MayorOfLA is this okay with you?

Demolition of the Jefferson Drill Site in our South LA neighborhood reminds us that faith the size of a mustard seed, love for one's community, and collective action can move mountains. #EndNeighborhoodDrilling @RedeemerCP @STAND_LA

South LA residents woke up to an unpermitted acid job taking place next door. This highly toxic work requires a Determination of Conditions & a public hearing. The City of LA and drill site owner, @ArchbishopGomez, are preying on South LA children & their families. @STAND_LA

HISTORIC! The LA City Council voted 14-0 to end oil drilling and phase-out all existing oil operations! @RedeemerCP is grateful for our neighbors, @STAND_LA partners, allies & elected leaders who made this victory possible! Together, are bending the arc of history toward justice.

Tomorrow marks a historic day for LA, a city built on the world's largest urban oil field. Years of tireless community organizing by @STAND_LA, @RedeemerCP and other EJ partners will reach a major milestone when the LA City Council votes on phasing-out oil extraction citywide.