12/13/25 Update – the Fight is Ramping up!

California’s Climate Superfund Bills Gain Unprecedented Grassroots
Momentum as Coalition Continues to Prioritize the Work to Protect California Communities.

Details Here

10/21/25

New action packet from Theo LeQuesne for your friends and relatives in various other California districts. (Our Santa Cruz County state reps are all supporters alread)

7/16/25

6/18/25 “Organizing for Justice” resistance workshop part 2.0  

4/8/25 New Info on how to support the bill

Useful links and resources:

2/21/25 Great News The Bill has been announced

It’s official: Sen. Caroline Menjivar and Asm. Dawn Addis have introduced the new Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act in CA!

By 2050, costs for damages from extreme climate disasters are estimated to be $113 billion PER YEAR in California. Meanwhile, Big Oil has profited billions of dollars while polluting our state — and they want YOU to foot the bill.

Enough is enough. 

Help us fight back: [link in bio / https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/californians-make-polluters-pay%5D

#SB684 #AB1243 #WevePaidEnough #MakePollutersPay #InvestInCommunities #ClimateJustice 

2/25/25 from Theo LeQuesne

As a reminder, one of our priority asks right now is to continue calling potentially supportive legislators and ask them to co-author the bill. If you see your legislator on this list, please call and ask them to co-author. You can ask folks in your networks to do the same using this template email.

IMPORTANT LINKS:

  • Bill text. The bill has been introduced by Sen. Menjivar in the CA Senate (Bill number SB 684) and Asm. Addis in the CA Assembly (Bill number AB 1243). The bill language is the same for both houses.
  • Action Packet. This is your one stop shop for tools, templates, and resources you may need to support the campaign.
  • 2- pager Factsheet. This is a short explainer about the bill that includes the list of 130+ organizations already supporting the campaign.
  • In-district template campaign plan. This is a template campaign plan that you can tailor to your community, with suggested tactics and metrics to help you organize support for the bill in your legislative district.
  • Timeline. The bill will likely go through the Senate Environmental Quality Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee as well as the Assembly Natural Resources Committee and the Assembly Judiciary Committee – all in April.

The recording of the meeting is linked here. Please only share with trusted groups.

We will meet again on March 10 at 5pm and biweekly on Mondays thereafter. Register for the upcoming meetings here.

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The Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Bill will be introduced in the California legislature in the next two weeks. When it gets introduced, it will be important to have many legislators signed on as co-authors. This helps demonstrate support behind the bill.

You are in a district with a senator who may be supportive of the bill so I’m reaching out to ask if you can call their office this week and ask them to co-author it.

Here’s the number to call and a script you can use to ask them (feel free to put this in your own words): Sen. Laird: (916) 651-4017. Assembly Members – Pellerin: (916) 319-2028, Addis: (916) 319-2030

Hello my name is ___ and I am from____. I am asking Senator Laird to co-author the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund bill. This bill will make the world’s biggest fossil fuel polluters pay their fair share for the climate damages they have caused in California. Californians shouldn’t be paying to clean up the mess these polluters made. Please co-author this important bill to protect communities and invest in California’s future. Thank you.

The legislator’s office may tell you that they will wait for the authors to invite them to co-author or they may wait until after introduction to decide.   This is normal, the authors are also making coauthor asks and it is very important for legislators to hear their constituents want them to support this bill.

Remember to leave a voicemail if no one is available to take your call.

Once you’ve made a call, please ask friends, family, and others in your community to do the same. Here’s a template email you can use to ask them to make a call.

Thank you so much for your help!

Theo

Theo LeQuesne (he/him/his pronouns)