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Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
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Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) is an environmental justice organization with deep roots in California’s Asian immigrant and refugee communities.

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Right now, lawmakers in #CAleg are considering how to plan for refinery closures and a transition away from fossil fuels. We need your support. Contact your legislators to demand they oppose the oil shakedown and stand up for our health and our climate:
actionnetwork.org/letters/take...
Take Action: Stop the Shakedown
Oil lobbyists want our elected officials to walk back decades of health, safety, and environmental regulations – and make taxpayers foot the bill. Together, we can stop the oil shakedown. Tell your el...
actionnetwork.org
July 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
What hasn’t made headlines (yet): @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social and #CAleg have an urgent mandate to create a comprehensive transition plan for refinery closures, invest in fenceline communities and workers, and ensure no one is left behind.

Will Newsom and #CALeg meet that call to action?
July 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The oil industry made this mess. Now, they want permission to continue fleecing California taxpayers and consumers – and, as a bonus, slash regulations, cut corners, and endanger Californians. We can’t let Big Oil shake down California on their way out.
July 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
We must follow the leadership of EJ groups in the Valley directly impacted by dirty drilling, and the many groups that have spent over a decade facing down threats of unchecked drilling expansion – groups like CRPE, CCEJN and CVAQ.
July 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Let’s be clear: fast-tracking thousands of oil and gas wells with only a *single* environmental review further pollutes the air and water in some of California’s most overburdened communities *and* risks deepening our dependence on fossil fuels.
July 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
So, what happened this week? Yesterday, @CalEnergy held a hearing on their initial plan to get us out of this hostage situation. But there’s more work to do. Among other things, this plan could lead to a massive expansion of oil and gas drilling in Kern County.
July 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
What’s happening: In the last year, two refineries in CA have announced plans to close – and Big Oil is taking the opportunity to shakedown taxpayers and maximize profits on their way out, making Californians foot the bill for their pollution ❌❌ stoptheoilshakedown.org
July 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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May 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Connect with your friends and neighbors. Make plans to protest, organize, and protect one another. From the courts to the streets — we need your solidarity now more than ever.

#EnvironmentalJustice #EarthDay
April 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This is not a normal #EarthDay.

As the Trump regime guts environmental protections, censors public data, and gives billionaires free reign to pollute, we need to step up the fight for our homes, families, and future.
April 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Try as they might, billionaires can’t extinguish our movements for a future beyond oil and gas – where everyone breathes clean air and nobody lives in fear of medical bills and refinery disasters.

We’ll fight these oil giants in the courts, just like we fight their pollution in our communities.
April 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
“Sierra Club V. EPA” rejects Trump’s attempt to erase environmental justice from government records.

The lawsuit argues that Trump has confiscated “essential tools” from communities on the frontlines of poverty, pollution, and climate disaster.

www.citizen.org/litigation/s...
Groups Sue Trump Administration Over Removal of Climate and Environmental Justice Websites and Data
A group of environmental and science organizations, represented by Public Citizen Litigation Group, today filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s removal of public information f...
www.commondreams.org
April 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Their goal: confiscate tools that advocates use to stop big polluters from making us sick – and that provide residents with critical information about toxins in their backyards.

Now, environmental and climate groups are fighting back with a major lawsuit.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1404202...
Environmental Groups Sue the Trump Administration to Restore Web Tools Critical for Gauging Climate and Pollution Impacts - Inside Climate News
The removal of websites designed to help disadvantaged communities will hurt those communities the most, lawyers argue.
insideclimatenews.org
April 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The Trump administration can’t delete a movement – so they’re trying to censor it.

Trump's EPA has axed references to climate change and cut tax-payer funded resources, including pollution maps, from federal websites – continuing their assault on public health and our chances at a livable future.
April 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
From Richmond to Los Angeles, frontline communities have fought decades of toxic dumping and built new legacies of grassroots organizing.

With statewide buffer zones between homes and oil wells, to taxing major polluters, to winning solar for tenants, our movement has held its ground.
April 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM