MEDIA
PRESS ROOM
BACKGROUNDER: Communities
BACKGROUNDER: West coast Dungeness crab fishery
PRESS RELEASE (11/14/18): Commercial Fishermen’s Association Takes on Fossil Fuel Industry – Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations (PCFFA) Files Lawsuit Over Repeated Closures of West Coast Dungeness Crab Fishery
PRESS RELEASE (7/20/18): Baltimore Takes On Fossil Fuel Companies to Protect Taxpayers from the Costs and Consequences of Climate Change
PRESS RELEASE (1/22/18): City of Richmond Becomes Ninth Community Seeking to Hold Fossil Fuel Companies Accountable and Protect Its Taxpayers From the Costs and Consequences of Climate Change
PRESS RELEASE (12/20/17): More Communities Seek to Protect Taxpayers from Increasing Costs of Wildfire, Drought, Rising Seas and Extreme Precipitation
PRESS RELEASE (7/17/17): California Communities Confronting Rising Sea Levels Fight Back
Former SEC official debunks fossil fuel industry misinformation – Read the press release and the report sent to the SEC
Climate Change Lawsuits
The History
InsideClimate News (Series): “Exxon: The Road Not Taken” by Neela Banerjee, Lisa Song, David Hasemyer and John H. Cushman Jr. (Sept. 16, 2015 – Dec. 22, 2015)
LA Times: “What Exxon knew about the Earth’s melting Arctic” by Sara Jerving, Katie Jennings, Masako Melissa Hirsch and Susanne Rust (Oct. 9, 2015)
LA Times: “Big Oil braced for global warming while it fought regulations” by Amy Lieberman and Susanne Rust (Dec. 31, 2015)
The Science
Climate Disclosure Project: “The Carbon Majors Database – CDP Carbon Majors Report 2017” by Paul Griffin and Rick Heede (July 2017)
Climatic Change: “Tracing anthropogenic carbon dioxide and methane emissions to fossil fuel and cement producers, 1854-2010” by Rick Heede (Nov. 21, 2013)
Nature Climate Change: “Consequences of twenty-first-century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea-level change” by Peter Clark et al. (Feb. 08, 2016)
Nature: “The proportionality of global warming to cumulative carbon emissions” by H. Damon Matthews, et al. (Apr. 14, 2009)
Nature: “The increasing rate of global mean sea-level rise during 1993-2014” by Xianyao Chen, et al. (Jun. 26, 2017)
The Assessments
City of Imperial Beach: “2016 City of Imperial Beach Sea Level Rise Assessment” (September 2016)
San Mateo County: “County of San Mateo Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment” (April 2017)
Marin County: “Marin Shoreline Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment” (June 2017) and “Marin Ocean Coast Sea Level Rise Adaptation Report” (May 2017)
City of Santa Cruz: “City of Santa Cruz Climate Adaptation Plan Update 2017-2022” (2017)
County of Santa Cruz: “Climate Action Strategy – Vulnerability Assessment” (February 2013)
City of Richmond: “Climate Action Plan – Climate Change Adaptation Study” (July 2016)
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