I just wrote a @pplsaction.bsky.social letter to keep corporate polluters out of climate week. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/keep...

Californians have seen power bills skyrocket – @energyandpolicy new tool shows that up to 25% of bills are going straight to utility executives & Wall Street pockets. We deserve a break from crushing utility bills. It’s time for utility profit reform energyandpolicy.org/...

Today is Day of Remembrance. On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 calling for the unconstitutional incarceration of my grandmother, Sue Kunitomi Embrey, and 125,000+ other people of Japanese ancestry. Today we honor those incarcerated and their "lost years"

Going to miss having Kathy welcome us to her home every year at the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage

Excited to moderate a climate forum of leading candidates for CA governor next Wednesday! Hosted by @envirovoters.bsky.social. Lots of important stuff to ask Xavier Becerra, @katieporterca.bsky.social, Tom Steyer & @ericswalwell.bsky.social. Register via Zoom: envirovoters.org/gubernatoria...

I'm attending Peoples Action Institute's event, “The Blueprint for Affordable Energy Launch Event” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/peoplesactio...

Congratulations to @billcorcoran.bsky.social @evangillespie.bsky.social and many more on the Beyond Coal Campaign who made the end of coal in California a reality this week. Check out the story from @sammyroth.bsky.social

“Just as it took a thoroughly engaged community to create these sites, it will require a community-wide effort to defend them. We need to create a powerful, nationwide coalition defending all our parks, especially the sites of conscience,” [said Bruce Embrey, co-chair of the Manzanar Committee.] "

Check out the CNN story of Manzanar Committee member Joyce Nakamura Okazaki as she recalls her experience at #Manzanar stating: "We were incarcerated. We were in prison. We were in concentration camps." Joyce shared: "It is important to remember your history so it is not repeated again" #NeverAgain

Rachel Maddow’s new series lays bare one of the most shocking decisions in American history. It’s a story that reveals how an executive order authorizing the mass roundup of innocent Japanese Americans came to be, the powerful players who engineered it, and the burn order that tried to erase it.

OpEd from @theclimatecenter.bsky.social: @governor.ca.gov is right to emphasize affordability as a pillar of climate, but why veto the most cost-effective clean energy solutions available today? @elliecohen.bsky.social: calmatters.org/commentary/2025/11/electricity-affordable-virtual-power-plants/

California utilities want to boost their profits during this affordability crisis Today, 67 groups told @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and CPUC: Enough! Reject these increases and put ratepayers first by cutting profit margins. Critical as 1 in 5 Californians can't pay their bills

The @californiapuc is expected to decide SOON whether to grant utilities billions more in authorized profits 💰—while 1 in 5 CA families struggle to pay their energy bills💡💸. Here's what you need to know. 🧵

Thank you Senator Sasha Perez for your leadership to demand our CPUC reject giving the utilities more profits and raise electricity bills even higher! “Eaton Fire victims deserve better than this proposal that’s overloaded with profit for utility companies,” said Senator Sasha Renée Pérez.

Illinois just casually passing a huge package of clean energy measures, and JB Pritzker isn't even in Brazil: insideclimatenews.org/news/0611202...

✍️ SIGN THE PETITION: Tell @californiapuc @GavinNewsom to cut utility profits to reasonable rates. While families struggle with bills, utilities want MORE profit. We deserve affordable energy. act.sierraclub.org/actions/Nati...

So, this Sierra Club article... I worked there for 27 years and was a volunteer before that for a while. Both for the long-term effectiveness of the environmental movement and as a simple (but complex) matter of justice, the organization needed change.

The ADL just launched “Mamdani Monitor” — a website to surveil the new mayor. If they want to keep Jews scared and isolated from our allies and neighbors, their time as Jewish leaders is over. Add your name to the petition from @bendthearc.bsky.social : www.bendthearc.us/reject_adl_m...

I'm attending Lead Locally's event, “2025 Election Debrief: Climate on the Ballot” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/leadlocally/...

This cause is close to my heart - love the Dodgers and hate ICE - please sign to tell the owners of the Dodgers Mark Walter to dump ICE: sign.moveon.org/petitions/we...

Thank you @governor.ca.gov for signing #AB1280: California Passes Law To Help Modernize Manufacturing in a Win for Jobs and Clean Air “Investing in clean manufacturing is a golden opportunity for California,” - Teresa Cheng, @industriouslabs.bsky.social industriouslabs.org/archive/pres...

GOOD NEWS: @governor.ca.gov signed #AB1280, which will help California manufacturers shift to zero-emissions equipment like heat pumps and thermal energy storage! Next up 👉 “We hope to see Governor Newsom invest funds from cap and invest in the INDIGO program” - @lasmogguy.bsky.social

Yes! Clean manufacturing is a ✅ Win for workers ✅ Win for climate ✅ Win for communities by creating good paying union jobs, cleaning up pollution and keeping manufacturing businesses in California to make the products we use and love every day. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social should sign #AB1280 today

If you’re in California and want to register your opinion with Gov. Newsom about AB 1167 and SB 24, you can call him at (916) 445-2841.

If Newsom vetoes AB 1167 / SB 24, his critics will say that anyone who can’t stand up to utility lobbyists can’t be trusted to lower people’s utility bills. And they’d have a fair point.

Newsom is staking his claim to national leadership on the notion that he will lower costs. Signing this bill will strengthen that claim and signal to customers that he stands with them, not the monopolies. x.com/CAgovernor/s...

The answer is old as time: PG&E, SoCalEdison and SDG&E remain very powerful lobbying forces with the Governor. It’s fair to suspect that they are mischaracterizing the bill and using all their access with the Newsom Administration to lobby for a veto.

Vetoing the bill would undermine all of @GavinNewsom’s efforts to lower Californians’ costs of living, so it would be only natural to wonder why on earth he’s rumored to be considering it.

Newsom has already shown leadership this session on lowering customers’ bills. SB 254, which he championed and signed, “reins in utility profits” by making sure the utilities don’t earn profits on the next $6 billion they spend to reduce wildfires. www.latimes.com/environment/...

California’s utilities are telling Newsom the bills are unnecessary because they don’t charge customers for politics. But we know that’s not true, because they keep getting caught doing it. Whoops! www.sacbee.com/news/politic... www.sacbee.com/news/califor...

Unsurprisingly, the policies that make up AB 1167 / SB 24 are also overwhelmingly popular: “93% of California voters agree that utilities should not charge customers for wasteful spending, including lobbying, PR, and marketing campaigns.” www.turn.org/press-releas...

California would be the 7th state in recent years to pass a law like this. These laws are already saving ratepayers money! Connecticut customers have been spared from footing the bill for up to $10 million of their utilities’ spending. energyandpolicy.org/new-laws-cur...

Here’s how it works. The bill would: 1) Stop utilities from baking the money they spend on political influence into rates; 2) Establish new transparency reforms to ensure they follow the law; 3.) Mandate penalties if they break the rules. energyandpolicy.org/california-l...

The bill (AB 1167/SB 24) would take the painfully obvious step of stopping monopoly utilities from charging customers for their lobbying and PR campaigns. Signing it into law would cement Newsom as a national leader on utility accountability and affordability. energyandpolicy.org/california-l...

A bill is sitting on @GavinNewsom’s desk that would lower Californians’ utility bills – all he has to do is sign it. But rumors are swirling that he plans to do the opposite - a move that could prove disastrous for California and for Newsom. A 🧵:

Coffee shouldn’t come with a side of smog. On #InternationalCoffeeDay, join us to urge the Bay Area Air District to cut pollution from fossil-fueled roasters & boilers. Clean heat is here. Let’s use it. Sign here: act.sierraclub.org/actions/SanF...

California's INDIGO program was created to both help decarbonize industrial facilities and benefit the grid. @industriouslabs.bsky.social's Teresa Cheng details to @volts.wtf how Gov. Newsom can sign AB1280 today to expand this program, benefiting biz & consumers www.volts.wtf/p/how-to-cle...

Big Oil spent nearly half a BILLION dollars in last year’s election cycle. Now, they’re coming to collect — and they’re getting a big return on investment. Watch. youtu.be/aDQXiNlM5iM?...

Welfare for an industry that makes hundreds of billions in profits and ravages the climate is civilizational self-harm. End it now. Gift link to my @opinion.bloomberg.com column about the new study from @collinrees.bsky.social & @oilchange.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Over 500 people gathered on Saturday August 23rd in Little Tokyo to take a stand against the Trump administration’s attacks on truth, justice and democracy. Check out the video by Alan Kondo of Nikkei Progressives here on the Manzanar Committee YouTube: youtu.be/e9lc3FF-UdU?...

"At a protest last weekend at Manzanar, where his mother was once incarcerated, Embrey and about 100 others decried censorship attempts and voiced support for the site’s mission to tell an unvarnished version of this chapter of American history." #ProtectEveryPark www.kcrw.com/news/shows/k...

BREAKING: DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says Trump and DOGE are putting YOUR data at risk. As we said in May, working people will pay the price. Identity theft could cost working people $39.4 BILLION/year Learn more: www.epi.org/publication/...

Check out the full program at the #ProtectEveryPark Day of Action at Manzanar National Historic Site where about 125 people gathered on Saturday August 23, 2025 to demand #NoErasure #NoRaids #NeverAgainisNow youtu.be/1stqDWr2Uas?...

Coffee is a popular drink in California, yet the process of roasting coffee beans can be expensive and environmentally damaging. I took a tour of Berkeley's Bellwether Coffee, which is leading clean tech innovation with the development of an all-electric, ventless coffee roaster.

Manzanar Committee is hosting an event for #ProtectEveryPark Day of Action on Saturday, August 23, 2025, 2-4pm at Manzanar National Historic Site to denounce the Trump Administration attacks on our history and rights. Join us! #neveragainisnow #Manzanar #NoMoreManzanars

What: #ProtectEveryPark Day of Action When: Saturday, August 23, 10am -11:30am Where: Japanese American National Museum Democracy Plaza 100 N Central Ave, Los Angeles CA 90012 FMI Contact [email protected] @protectparks.bsky.social @jamuseum.bsky.social @jacl-national.bsky.social

Join us for a Day of Action to defend the truth of WWII Japanese American incarceration history. Hear from WWII incarceration survivors, community activists, and allies to honor the people and places that shaped our history and demand that this injustice never happens again. #NeverAgain

We had a great time talking about decarbonizing manufacturing with Bellwether Coffee and reps from CARB, CEC, CPUC, the legislature, and BAAQMD on Monday. Coffee may be a small part of our manufacturing base, but it's definitely one that many of us interact with every day.

NEW VIDEO - climate advocates are calling out fossil fuel corporations for blocking common sense climate policy that would bring down costs and protect Californians, not profits #FightTheGreed www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YXV...

200 advocates gather this morning to call on the South Coast AQMD Board to vote yes on rules for clean air and healthy homes 1111 and 1121. #cleanair #heatpump #buildingelectrificiation