by TEAM APEN | Nov 1, 2019 | Media, Power to the Frontlines, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Statewide, Stories
Newsweek Opinion: Billionaires Won’t Save Californians From PG&E Disasters. It’s Time We Owned Our Power. By Sylvia Chi and Jessica Guadalupe Tovar This week, howling winds whipped through Northern California, fueling fires, downing trees and blowing toxic smoke...
by TEAM APEN | Oct 19, 2019 | Climate Resilience, Media, Statewide, Stories
SF Chronicle: Disaster disparity: California spreads emergency training to diverse communities By Dustin Gardiner Cliff Gooden rushes to save a rubber dummy — an elderly man for the purposes of this training demonstration — trapped under a ceiling beam that has fallen...
by TEAM APEN | Sep 3, 2019 | Climate Resilience, Media, Statewide, Stories
NPR: As Rising Heat Bakes U.S. Cities, The Poor Often Feel It Most Baltimore’s Franklin Square neighborhood is hotter than about two-thirds of the neighborhoods in the city. It’s also in one of Baltimore’s poorest areas. Ian Morton for NPR By Meg...
by TEAM APEN | Feb 24, 2019 | Climate Resilience, Media, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Statewide, Stories
Sacramento Bee Opinion: We can’t wait for Washington’s Green New Deal. California needs just transition now. By Miya Yoshitani and Gladys Limón As the deadliest wildfire in a century raged in Butte County last year, leaving 85 people dead and thousands without homes,...
by TEAM APEN | Sep 7, 2018 | Climate Resilience, Media, Mobilizing the Power of Asian Voters, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Statewide, Stories
Guardian: Climate change protest blitz targets local action in face of Trump hostility Activist groups and concerned citizens march to New York City Hall in protest of Trump’s attack on the Paris climate agreement in June 2017. Photograph: Pacific...
by TEAM APEN | Aug 29, 2018 | Climate Resilience, Media, Mobilizing the Power of Asian Voters, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Statewide, Stories
East Bay Express: With Global Climate Action Summit, Paris Comes to San Francisco Miya Yoshitani of APEN speaks at a press conference for the Sept. 8 climate march. Credits: Photo by Emily Jovais by Jean Tepperman When President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris...