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Check Out SF Mime Troupe’s “Oil & Water” This Weekend in Live Oak Park

July 23, 2013 by Ecology Center

The San Francisco Mime Troupe is performing their original work, “Oil & Water” in parks around the Bay Area this summer. “Oil & Water” challenges the dangerous energy practices of corporations and the rest of us. For those unfamiliar, the SF Mime Troupe do not pantomime. Using comedy and music, they seek to make you… Read more »

Plastic: A Toxic Love Story. Author event tonight at Books, Inc. in Berkeley

April 25, 2011 by Ecology Center

Tonight, in Berkeley, journalist Susan Freinkel will be reading from her new book, Plastic: A Toxic Love Story at Books, Inc. Each year we use and consume more plastic; we’ve produced as much plastic in the past decade as we did in the entire twentieth century. Plastics draw on dwindling fossil fuels, leach harmful chemicals,… Read more »

EPA Announces New Mercury and Air Toxics Standards

March 16, 2011 by Frances.Kawamoto

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a series of mercury and air toxics standards for power plants that burn coal and oil. It is anticipated that as power plants abide by these proposed standards, as many as 17,000 American lives can be saved every year by 2015, mercury emissions would be reduced by 91%, direct… Read more »

Why are Texas oil companies trying to kill California’s Global Warming Solutions Act?

October 4, 2010 by Union.of.Concerned.Scientists

Texas oil companies Valero and Tesoro are funding the campaign for Prop 23, which Californians will vote on this November. Prop 23 is a bill that would stall—possibly indefinitely—the implementation of California’s Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32). The Union of Concerned Scientists explain the motivations driving these oil companies: With continued lack of climate… Read more »

Help Get the Word Out: Defeat Prop 23 this November!

August 4, 2010 by Ecology Center

From our friends at KyotoUSA: Two Texas oil companies are attempting to destroy California’s heroic effort to reduce the climate altering greenhouse gas emissions that are produced in the state. Valero and Tesoro are the primary funders of Proposition 23, a deceptive ballot proposition that would kill California’s AB 32 (Global Warming Solutions Act). Please… Read more »