Email your Assemblymember to vote YES on SB 252 - California Environmental Voters

Email your Assemblymember: Stop our retirements from financing the fossil fuel industry!

CalPERS and CalSTRS — the agencies that invest the pension funds of state employees and teachers, respectively — are investing BILLIONS into fossil fuel corporations.

We can't be fighting to solve the climate crisis while simultaneously investing billions into corporations that are the primary cause of climate change.

The Fossil Fuel Divestment Act (SB 252) would end this dangerous practice. Please email your Assemblymember and urge them to vote YES on SB 252!

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Dear [elected official],

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Californians’ retirements should not be investing in fossil fuel corporate profits.

The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) and the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) — the agencies that invest the pension funds of state employees and teachers, respectively — are investing billions of dollars into fossil fuel corporations.

That’s not right. We can’t be fighting to solve the climate crisis while simultaneously investing billions into corporations that are the primary cause of climate change. (Additionally, there’s also evidence that investing in fossil fuels hurts — not helps — the returns on pension funds.)

Fortunately, Senator Lena Gonzalez’s Fossil Fuel Divestment Act (SB 252) would end this dangerous practice. The bill would stop CalPERS and CalSTRS from investing in fossil fuel corporations, require them to divest current holdings by 2030, and issue reports on their divestment progress annually starting in 2025.

It’s outrageous for California, which strives to be a global leader in the fight to solve the climate crisis, to still be investing in fossil fuel corporations at all, much less to this extent.

At a time when Californians’ health, lives, and livelihoods are on the line from record heat waves, floods, pollution, and extreme wildfires, we should be transitioning AWAY from fossil fuels rather than propping up fossil fuel billionaires with our retirement dollars.

California must remain true to its climate commitments as well as its moral values when it comes to investment choices. I’m counting on you to vote YES on the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act (SB 252) when it comes up for a vote.

Thank you.

Sincerely, [Your information here]