Two exciting bills to Make Polluters Pay have made it to the governor’s desk! AB 1866, the Idle Wells Cleanup Act, will accelerate the clean-up of more than 40,000 toxic idle oil wells across the state. AB 3233, the Local Environmental Choice and Safety Act, will protect local communities’ rights to regulate oil and gas … Read more
Climate progress in the California legislature in 2024 was nowhere near what is needed to address the accelerating climate crisis. While our leaders must do more to rein in climate pollution and challenge Big Oil’s political influence, there are signs of hope to build on. This year, climate champions introduced bills to defend and grow … Read more
At the end of August, we gathered 50+ climate activists in Sacramento for a ’Make Polluters Pay’ rally to highlight three critical bills pending before California lawmakers: Shortly after the rally, with thanks to your phone calls and letters to decision-makers, all three bills passed the legislature and now await the governor’s signature! A new … Read more
California should be a place where democracy and fairness rule. But after another round of record spending on lobbying by oil companies this year, the oil and gas industry has sabotaged key bills designed to protect public health and the climate. Big Oil lobbying expenditures for the first half of 2024 came in at a … Read more
As the world navigates the necessary transition away from polluting fuels toward clean energy, many scientists believe we must also remove climate pollution that has already been dumped into the atmosphere. The call for Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) grows stronger as new analyses find that the global community is not on track to meet the … Read more
Katie Lebling is a Research Associate in World Resource Institute’s (WRI) U.S. Climate Program where she leads research and analysis to inform responsible scaling of carbon dioxide removal approaches. She works at the state, federal, and international level to advance policy recommendations that can enable sustainable and equitable scaling. She has an MA from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies with a focus on energy and environment policy and a BA from Colby College in Environmental Science.
Kimberley (Kim) Mayfield is a member of Lawrence Livermore National Lab’s (LLNL) Energy Group and principal investigator for Lawrence Livermore’s Energy Flow Charts. Kim works with the Carbon Initiative, which aims to understand, develop, and implement technologies for the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Her areas of focus are carbon accounting for carbon sequestration projects and environmental justice analysis for negative carbon emissions projects. Her research background is in environmental chemistry, with an emphasis on non-traditional stable isotope geochemistry in hydrologic systems. Prior to joining LLNL, Kimberley worked in the algal biofuels industry, innovating safe and economically viable ways to extract valuable products from microalgae.
Dr. Marcius Extavour is a widely published scientist, creative technologist, innovation practitioner, and communicator whose work has been featured at CNBC, CNN, PBS, and TVO. He serves as a Board Member in the U.S. National Academies of Sciences and 1% for the Planet, and he is currently a Senior Partner at Ode, where he builds sustainable solutions, products, and algorithms. Dr. Extavour established the TIME Climate 100 at TIME, after building the energy, climate, and carbon removal practice at XPRIZE as Chief Scientist and Executive VP for nearly a decade. He also worked at the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources, Nortel Networks, and the University of Toronto. Dr. Extavour holds a Ph.D. and MSc. in quantum optics and atomic physics and an undergraduate degree in engineering science from the University of Toronto.
Thanks to climate activism across the state, including over 1,000 of The Climate Center’s supporters, a $10-billion climate resilience bond will be on the November ballot. The climate bond, known as Prop 4, includes urgently needed protections against extreme heat, wildfire, sea level rise, and flooding, as well as critical investments in clean water. The … Read more
With an anti-science, climate-denying, far-right extremist officially the Republican nominee for president, it might feel like public support for climate action is dwindling. But recent polling tells a much more encouraging story. For the first time, a majority of American voters across party lines say they want the country to do more to address the … Read more
