Fossil Fuels Archives

Environment

Students demand that teacher pension fund revoke fossil fuel investments

Garrett Leahy - August 29, 2021

CalSTRS holds $6 billion in fossil-fuel company stock, and the next generation wants to see a dramatic change.

Opinion

Dear politicians: Do your homework on climate change—now

Michael Redmond - July 25, 2021

The standard against which we are judging our actions will lead to the planet being uninhabitable, possibly for me, and almost certainly for my children.

The Agenda

Plans for a public bank could take a big step forward this week

Tim Redmond - May 30, 2021

Plus: More taxpayer money going to settle police misconduct cases. That's The Agenda for May 31 to June 6.

News + Politics

Why Richmond said No to coal

Tom Molanphy - January 19, 2020

On Tuesday, January 14, to the delight of environmentalists and health advocates and the consternation of the coal industry, the Richmond City Council passed...

News + Politics

SF could have a public bank by 2020

Jeantelle Laberinto - November 12, 2019

San Francisco is moving closer to having its own public bank. Today, Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer, alongside the San Francisco Public Bank Coalition, gathered on...

News + Politics

As the fires rage and the blackouts continue, Newsom ducks

Tim Redmond - October 28, 2019

Gov. Gavin Newsom is sounding all harsh and tough toward PG&E as Northern California burns out of control again and the blackouts continue. At a...

News + Politics

The problem with the Blue Angels

Christopher D. Cook - October 12, 2019

Editor’s note: The news media in San Francisco are all agog about the Blue Angels – as they always are, every year. The main...

News + Politics

As Amazon burns, Democratic leaders deny climate-change debate

Christopher D. Cook - August 26, 2019

As the Amazon rainforest blazed into blackening skies in Brazil, further intensifying the climate crisis, activists’ months-long push for a Democratic Party presidential debate...

News + Politics

50 years later, the lessons of the Santa Barbara oil spill

Tim Redmond - January 26, 2019

Fifty years ago this weekend, there wasn’t anything you could call an environmental movement in the United States. There were a few signs, in January...

News + Politics

Protesters call for public control of PG&E — and it makes such perfect sense

Tim Redmond - January 10, 2019

Activists shut down another hearing of the California Public Utilities Commission today, just after Pacific Gas and Electric Co. tried to head off bankruptcy...

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Students demand that teacher pension fund revoke fossil fuel investments

Dear politicians: Do your homework on climate change—now

Plans for a public bank could take a big step forward this week

Why Richmond said No to coal

SF could have a public bank by 2020

As the fires rage and the blackouts continue, Newsom ducks

The problem with the Blue Angels

As Amazon burns, Democratic leaders deny climate-change debate

50 years later, the lessons of the Santa Barbara oil spill

Protesters call for public control of PG&E — and it makes such perfect sense

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