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By C.C. Song, The Greenlining Institute

In the backyard of the Tesoro and Valero refineries in Wilmington, California lives a thriving community that has been fighting back against the oil giants for years. Because of Proposition 23, attention has finally been brought to local residents who wake up to see the refineries’ smoke day after day.

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La Opinion
Orson Aguilar

Lo están haciendo otra vez: De nuevo, los intereses especiales están tratando de arrebatar la iniciativa de ley en la boleta de California para enriquecerse a costa de nuestras comunidades.

Dos grandes compañías petroleras están gastando grandes cantidades de dinero para matar la creciente economía verde de California y los cientos de empleos que esta economía ha creado. Prepárense para las mentiras que se esparcirán rápido y recuerden quién está detrás de ellas.
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Greenlining Joins Growing Opposition to Texas Oil Company Measure

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA – The Greenlining Institute has joined the swelling ranks of opposition to Texas oil companies’ dirty-energy proposal, now known as Proposition 23 on the November ballot.

“As an organization devoted to economic opportunity for communities of color and low-income Californians, we can state unequivocally that Prop. 23 would be a disaster for our communities,” said Greenlining Institute Executive Director Orson Aguilar. “Texas oil companies are pushing this measure to protect their profits, knowing it will be a job-killer.”
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San Diego Business Journal
By Marty Graham

As one of the nation’s top solar generating cities, San Diego is a popular place for the business of solar installation. The city has the most solar installations and generating power in the state and more solar rooftops than either Los Angeles or oh-so-green San Francisco, according to advocacy group Environment California.
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Oakland Local

While global warming has propelled environmental issues into the mainstream of American politics, an all-day hearing activists held recently in East Oakland showed the difficulty of translating concern into action in the neighborhoods hit hardest by environmental problems.
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By: www.californiachronicle.com

LOS ANGELES – State Senator Gilbert Cedillo (D-Los Angeles) and the California Latino Legislative Caucus convened “El Poder Verde” Green Jobs Summit last week in downtown Los Angeles. The summit was organized to bring together public and private sector stakeholders mobilizing the “green movement” throughout the state. Organizers and participants stressed the importance of meeting climate change goals while providing high quality and lasting employment at all skill levels, and in particular, in poor and underserved communities.

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Thirty Percent Low-Income Community Workforce Unparalled In Green Sector, Start Date In November

October 14, 2009, San Francisco, CA—There will be no better case study on the potential for green jobs to create a pathway out of poverty than when San Francisco’s 5-megawatt, 25,000-panel Sunset Reservoir solar project breaks ground this November.  In April of this year, San Francisco’s CityBuild program began working with San Francisco-based Recurrent Energy to channel green jobs advocates’ and city policymakers’ desire to see no less than 30% of the project’s workforce drawn from the city’s most underserved and unemployed neighborhoods.  CityBuild and San Francisco community-based organizations will soon begin the process of recruiting qualified economically disadvantaged residents who have been trained in a variety of skills, including solar installation, in an effort to revitalize the city’s most vulnerable communities.

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