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Join us in calling on California's public pensions, the largest in the U.S., to divest from fossil fuels.

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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 30/09/2026
Read more at: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... and calmatters.org/politics/202...
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 18/09/2026
Link to read more: calmatters.org/economy/2026.... Public service employees should not be making this much off of our money!
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 17/09/2026
Councilmember Fife is introducing a data center moratorium to the Oakland on Tuesday, September 22 to the Life Enrichment Committee. Join us in showing our support for the moratorium at Oakland City Hall, Tuesday, September 22 at 3 pm before their meeting! Help say NO to data centers in Oakland!
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 08/09/2026
Happening TOMORROW! Sign up now, link in bio! Saving for college shouldn’t require investing in oil pipelines 😡. Come learn about a new fossil-free option for state 529 college savings plans at our September 9 webinar with Bill McKibben. Register now: tinyurl.com/ffca-529
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 03/09/2026
Coming up next week! Saving for college shouldn’t require investing in oil pipelines 😡. Come learn about a new fossil-free option for state 529 college savings plans at our September 9 webinar with Bill McKibben. Register now: tinyurl.com/ffca-529.
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 26/08/2026
😡 Saving for college shouldn’t require investing in oil pipelines. Come learn about a new fossil-free option for state 529 college savings plans at our September 9 webinar with Bill McKibben. Register now: tinyurl.com/ffca-529
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 25/08/2026
tiny.cc/go09101 Please send an email TODAY, to pass AB 40-The Coal Review Act, which defines “large-volume bulk coal facility” and requires CEQA review and mitigation measures for significant air quality impacts. A Senate vote will take place TOMORROW, outreach to key Assembly members is essential.
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 20/08/2026
Are you worried about the data centers being forced on our communities? 🏭💰 Join us NEXT THURSDAY to learn how data centers, Big Tech, Big Oil, and fascism are fueling each other--and how we can build a movement to protect our communities and our democracy! 💪🌱 RSVP & more info bit.ly/8-27-webinar
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 16/04/2026
CalSTRS has cut way back on fossil fuel investments - but it's long past time to go further.
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 30/03/2026
No kings, no fascism, no fossil fuels! Check out @movementphotog.bsky.social's beautiful pics of the Make Polluters Pay contingent at Saturday's Oakland action - and get ready to hit the streets with us on May Day!
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 09/03/2026
Trump wants to drill in beautiful public places like here at Quarry Lakes & Sunol Regional Wilderness. Submit your comment to oppose the Bureau of Land Management's plan to open up 1 million acres of public lands to drilling. Take 2 minutes to submit now: bit.ly/DontDrillMyS... #ProtectPublicLands
Five adults hold signs in a public park saying "Public lands are not for private profit"Five adults sit and stand around a Quarry Lakes park sign holding placards opposing oil drilling.A child with long brown hair and a blue dress holds a sign reading "This land is in danger - protect it with me."Two young people and one adult smile for the camera in front of grasslands and spreading oaks.
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 06/03/2026
This spring, FFCA is joining a new campaign to Unrig California--slashing corporate tax breaks and funding California's environmental, health, and social programs! Join us on Wednesday, March 11 at 9:45 am for a campaign kickoff mobilization at the State Capitol! actionnetwork.org/events/unrig...
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 10/02/2026
FFCA is hiring a part-time Communications Fellow this spring! Great for college students or other young leaders interested in building movement communications skills. Details & application info here: tinyurl.com/ffcacomms
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 09/02/2026
FFCA board member & super-volunteer Cynthia Kaufman breaks down California's experiences with affordability, authoritarianism and the climate crisis in a new Common Dreams article! www.commondreams.org/opinion/affo...
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 24/09/2025
Kim Stanley Robinson & Elise Joshi sharing their brilliance with the FFCA community at the David Brower Center on Saturday! Thank you to everyone who attended this event and made it sparkle <3
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 17/09/2025
Come meet Elise in person at Coming Together for Climate Action, FFCA's annual fundraising celebration! Saturday, September 20, 5-7:30 pm at the David Brower Center in Berkeley. Get your tickets at tinyurl.com/ffcacelebration
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 16/09/2025
Dan Cohn of IEEFA is back for another round of interactive lunchtime training! Learn to understand climate finance and talk to your coworkers about why fossil free pension funds benefit us financially! Tinyurl.com/talkingfinance2
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 11/09/2025
Governor Newsom is trying to push through an oil-billing expansion in the last days of the legislative session. Rank-and-file workers say NO TO SB 237! Call your reps today using this toolkit: tinyurl.com/nodrillbaby
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 10/09/2025
Come meet Kim Stanley Robinson in person at Coming Together for Climate Action, FFCA's annual fundraising celebration! Saturday, September 20, 5-7:30 pm at the David Brower Center in Berkeley. tinyurl.com/ffcacelebration
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 18/08/2025
Join us to celebrate wins, strengthen our community for the fights ahead, and raise resources for the climate movement! Tinyurl.com/ffcacelebration
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 24/06/2025
Movie stars join the fight for pension divestment! retirebigoil.org
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 04/06/2025
Join us next Weds June 11 on your lunch hour, and learn why fossil fuel divestment is good for your pension - and how to explain this to your coworkers! tinyurl.com/talkingfinance
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 19/05/2025
Just part of the superstar crew that pedaled many miles of gorgeous (but windy!) Marin/Sonoma back roads this weekend to raise funds for FFCA, as part of Climate Ride's California Green Fondo! You can still donate to our team at support.climateride.org/team/6568!
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 14/05/2025
Join Fossil Free California, @cynthiakaufman.bsky.social, and novelist Stephen Markley for a thought-provoking conversation on climate futures, resistance in dark times, and the radical imagination! Get your tickets at bit.ly/smarkley!
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 24/02/2025
TONIGHT: Join us for our webinar on fossil fuel divestment and anti-neighborhood oil drilling intersections! Our four advocates will be talking about the challenges, wins, and overlaps between the campaigns they work on. bit.ly/42GJETZ
Headshots of the 5 "Environmental Justice Intersections - Divestment & Neighborhood Drilling" webinar taking place on Feb 24th from 6:00-7:30pm. Register: bit.ly/42GJETZ
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 14/01/2025
Calling all CA youth leaders! Our first youth coalition meeting of 2025 is Thursday, Jan. 23 from 6pm-7pm! You can rsvp here: bit.ly/cayouthej #youthcoalition
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 16/10/2024
Join us Thursday, October 17th from 6pm-7pm for our next statewide youth coalition meeting for fossil fuel divestment! Please DM us for the zoom link to join and we hope to see you all there! #youthcoalition #fossilfueldivestment #environmentaljustice #ej #climatechange
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 26/09/2024
Join Us Tomorrow on September 26th from 6pm-7pm for the launch of our statewide youth coalition for fossil fuel divestment! Please DM us for the zoom link if you would like to join us and we hope to see you all there! #youthcoalition #fossilfueldivestment #ej #climatechange
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 23/07/2024
The Climate Clock is ticking ⏰🌍 On July 22nd, let’s come together for #ClimateEmergencyDay. It's #TimeToEndFossilFuels and #TimeToFundOurFuture. Share this post, join local actions and demand real climate solutions! #ActInTime www.climateclock.world/climate-emergency-day
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 28/05/2024
The State Assembly Public Employment and Retirement Committee will be heard SB252 in June! Send a letter to the PERS committee, urging their support for divestment of fossil fuels through SB252 TODAY at fossilfreeca.org/email #Divestment #SB252 #StateAssembly #EnvironmentalJustice
Text Reads: ACTION ALERT! SB252 to be heard by the Assembly PERS Committee in June! Send a letter of support urging PERS Committee members to vote YES TO DIVEST! fossilfreeca.org/email
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 22/04/2024
Is there oil drilling in your community? Is it funded by the public pension system, CalPERS and CalSTRS? Find out through our Fossil Free California mapping tool and our Community Spotlight Series! fossilfreeca.org/map #Divest #SB252 #FossilFreeCA
Text reads: Community Spotlight: Wilmington. Active Wells in CalPERS/CalSTRS portfolio are red dots. Idle or Canceled Wells in CalPERS/CalSTRS portfolio are blue squares. Plugged Wells in CalPERS/CalSTRS portfolio are black dots. New Wells in CalPERS/CalSTRS portfolio are purple diamonds. Intersections of Neighborhood Drilling Funded by Public Pensions (CalPERS and CalSTRS) and the Need for Fossil Fuel Divestment.Text Reads: Community Member Testimony: “Seeing the amount of CalPERS and CalSTRS funded drilling in Wilmington is especially alarming considering the amount of teachers who might not know that CalSTRS is funding the same companies that pollute the air and lungs of the community that they teach and live in.” - Luis Angel Martinez, Fossil Free California, Wilmington Community Member.Text Reads: Industrial and Environmental Impacts. Industry - 5 refineries surround the community, Peppered with oil drilling, Neighbors Port of LA, Power Outages. Environmental - Extreme heat events, flooding, wild and industrial fires.. Health - Asthma, bloody noses, cancer, headaches, and more. Credit to: CalEnviroScreen 4.0.Text Reads: Are you from Wilmington? CalPERS and CalSTRS invest in fossil fuel companies that drill within 3,200 ft of homes, schools and churches in Wilmington. Email your Assemblymember to urge their support for SB252 and pension divestment of fossil fuels! bit.ly/3NFtr9O
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 14/03/2024
There are thousands of active and idle wells that are owned by fossil fuel companies that receive funding from CalPERS and CalSTRS! Write a letter to your assembly member demanding that the pensions divest from fossil fuel companies! #GreenSky #ClimateSky #PoliSky
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 26/02/2024
Did you know that there are over 96,000 oil wells in California that either have been or are currently being funded by CalPERS and CalSTRS? Check out @FossilFreeCA’s interactive map: fossilfreeca.org/map Then email your Assemblymember: “Vote Yes on #SB252 – Divest!” fossilfreeca.org/email
Graphic. Text reads, “Major California pension funds, CalPERS or CalSTRS, invest in companies that have thousands of oil and gas wells throughout the state. To demand accountability, Fossil Free California has launched an interactive map to show where CalPERS and CalSTRS funding is linked to wells in your community.” Below that is a screenshot of the interactive map. At bottom text reads, fossilfreeca.org/map. At bottom right is the logo for Fossil Free California.Graphic. Text reads, “Despite legislation being passed in 2022 that enacted a mandatory 3,200 foot buffer zone between oil drilling and California schools and communities, this law hasn‘t taken effect due to intense lobbying by the fossil fuel industry. This allowed almost 700 additional permits for fossil fuel operations to be granted within buffer zones in 2023.” Below that are screenshots of the interactive map showing blue circles for the 3,200 foot buffer zone. At bottom text reads, fossilfreeca.org/map. At bottom right is the logo for Fossil Free California.Graphic. Text reads: Fossil fuel practices like oil drilling are not only contributing to the climate crisis but they are also subjecting communities on the frontlines of drilling to negative health impacts. Public health impacts include:
• Disease: asthma, cancer, liver damage, immunodeficiency, and neurological symptoms.
• Pregnancy complications
• Air pollution
• Water contamination
• Mental health effects
Inactive, idle or "zombie" oil wells are an under-reported risk across California that carry many similar impacts.

At bottom, picture of an oil derrick. Below,  text reads, fossilfreeca.org/map.Graphic. Text reads: Take action. Want CalPERS and CaISTRS to know it's unacceptable to continue funding the companies that are drilling up and down the state of California?
Take action by emailing your Assemblymember: fossilfreeca.org/email
Background is people holding signs calling on California’s public pensions to divest.
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 20/02/2024
Did you know that California’s public pensions invest in the companies that are drilling all across California?  Check out @FossilFreeCA’s interactive map: fossilfreeca.org/map Then email your Assemblymember: “Vote Yes on #SB252 – Divest!” fossilfreeca.org/email #GreenSky #ClimateSky #PoliSky
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 16/01/2024
“The United Nations Environmental Program just released a report indicating that fossil fuel production in 2030 is slated to be double what is compatible with 1.5 degrees warming. We need to act now. CalPERS should divest, rather than make unclear promises of net zero by 2050.” 1/2 #GreenSky
Graphic. Logo for Sacramento Bee. Text reads, “CalPERS plans to newly invest in clean energy — while refusing to divest from fossil fuels.” Behind text is a photo of an oil refinery at night. At bottom right is the logo for Fossil Free California
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 12/01/2024
Join us January 23 for the online event: A Win on California Pension Divestment Is a Win for California Communities! Join Bill McKibben in a conversation with grassroots leaders - let's make a plan to pass a transformative climate bill in 2024! RSVP: fossilfreeca.org/win-win  #GreenSky #ClimateSky
Graphic. Header text reads, "A Win on California Pension Divestment Is a Win for California Communities. Join the Online Event. January 23, 2023. 6 – 7:30 PST.” Below header are headshots and name labels of featured speakers: Ra’mauri Cash, Fatima Iqbal-Zubair, Carlos Davidson, Luis Angel Martinez, Bill McKibben, and Rev. Lennox Yearwood. Graphic background is stripes of color from red, orange, yellow through blue.
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 09/12/2023
3) The halt and reversal of deforestation and land degradation as well as biodiversity and other ecosystem loss by 2030; ensure resilient food systems and deliver a strong global goal on adaptation. #COP28 #GreenSky #ClimateSky
Graphic. Text reads, "Response 3: The halt and reversal of deforestation and land degradation as well as biodiversity and other ecosystem loss by 2030; ensure resilient food systems and deliver a strong global goal on adaptation." Background photo shows a clearing and river where clear-cutting has removed a large swath of forest... a remaining stand of dense trees is in the background. Text at bottom reads, “Source: Karsten Winegeart (Unsplash)”
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 09/12/2023
2) The enabling environment to scale up and shift public and private finance, with developed countries taking the lead in action and support; putting a price on carbon and tripling investments for renewable energy. #COP28 #GreenSky #ClimateSky
Graphic. Text on a plain off-white background reads, "The enabling environment to scale up and shift public and private finance, with developed countries taking the lead in action and support; putting a price on carbon and tripling investments for renewable energy."
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 09/12/2023
We call for: 1) An orderly phase out of all fossil fuels in a just and equitable way, in line with a 1.5C trajectory - whilst ensuring the tripling of global renewable energy capacity by 2030 from 2022 levels and the doubling of energy efficiency.
Graphic. Text reads, "An orderly phase out of all fossil fuels in a just and equitable way, in line with a 1.5C trajectory - whilst ensuring the tripling of global renewable energy capacity by 2030 from 2022 levels and the doubling of energy efficiency." Background photo shows a cityscape cloaked in smog, and a red and white smokestack billowing gray smoke. Text at bottom reads, “Source: Marcin Jozwiak (Pexels)”
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 09/12/2023
The UN Climate Change conference #COP28 is entering its final days. Fossil Free California proud to join a diverse and growing coalition of organizations and 800+ leaders who join with the COP28 Parties in bringing us together behind a 1.5°C plan. Because #LaterIsTooLate. #GreenSky #ClimateSky
Graphic. Text reads, "As COP28 enters its final days, we are at a tipping point
The world needs the strongest possible outcome to keep 1.5 degrees within reach."
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 29/11/2023
Our campaign to divest California's public pensions could get $14 billion out of fossil fuels starting in 2024. Join now - and help us win: fossilfreeca.org/donate #GreenSky #ClimateSky #PoliSky #GivingTuesday
Graphic. Text reads “We work at the urgency and scale of the climate crisis.
Join us.
Donate today:
FossilFreeCA.org/Donate

Behind text is a photo of a brilliant sunrise over low clouds, illuminating a grassy knoll with a scattering of mature trees.

At bottom right is the logo for Fossil Free California.
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 07/11/2023
OUT TODAY!! The new “Dollars to Decarbonization” toolkit offers an easy-to-understand fossil fuel divestment blueprint for local governments to decarbonize their finances Check it out at: bouldercounty.gov/climate/dive...
Graphic. Text reads, "From Dollars to Decarbonization - A local government blueprint for fossil-free finance." Background image is a cityscape with skyscrapers in the distance and lush parkland close in. Folded behind the text are a loose stack of U.S. dollars. At bottom are logos for 350 Colorado and Boulder County.
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 31/10/2023
You wouldn't believe how many of these we get in California. #Halloween #GreenSky #ClimateSky
Spirit Halloween costume. Label on front left reads: 
“TOXIC OIL WELL. Includes: VIP access to California neighborhoods, schools, hospitals, and playgrounds, Invisible but deadly methane emissions, A fun bonus disguise to wear when you get uncomfortably close to people. Does not include: Any concept of personal space.
ADULT size costume.” 
At front right is person dressed in all black holding parts of an oil derrick in each hand.
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 13/10/2023
“It makes no sense that on one hand California is suing five major oil companies for climate-related damages to the state, while at the same time our state public pension funds are investing over $4 billion in these same companies. We should divest.” #ESG #ClimateSky #GreenSky
Graphic. Imagery at top includes a page from the lawsuit, a cutout of the shape of California, and the logo for Fossil Free California. Text reads, “The state of California is suing ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and BP. But California’s public pensions currently have over $4.3 billion* invested in these same 5 companies. The time to go fossil free is now. Let’s pass Senate Bill 252. fossilfreeca.org/join #SB252. 

At bottom right is a yellow sticky note with handwriting font that reads, “*The state of California’s public pensions literally have $4,384,815,563 dollars invested in ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, & BP.”
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 10/10/2023
HUGE WIN: The National Academy of Medicine officially commits to divest from fossil fuels! NAM joins nearly 1600 institutions representing over $40 trillion in assets committed to divest from fossil fuels. #FirstDoNoHarm #Divest #GreenSky #ClimateSky
Photo description: Graphic with text overlaid on a photo. Photo is of a small group healthcare professionals, facing each other in a circle, putting their hands together in an “all hands in” moment. Text reads “First, Do No Harm Victory: The National Academy of Medicine Commits to Fossil Fuel Divestment” “This is a massive win that wouldn’t have been possible without the support of thousands of healthcare professionals worldwide.”
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Fossil Free California @fossilfreeca.org · 21/09/2023
Fossil Free California is hiring! We invite you to check out our open position of Senior Campaigns Organizer or Campaigns Organizer. Lead the charge to divest over $14 billion from California’s public pensions by 2024.  Remote/California fossilfreeca.org/jobs
Graphic. Text reads, “Fossil Free California is hiring. Senior Campaigns Organizer or Campaigns Organizer. Full-time, remote, from anywhere in California. Apply now: FossilFreeCA.org/jobs”
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