Nearly 60 students walked out of Oakland high schools Friday to march to City Hall as part of a statewide action in support of a California bill that would mitigate the impacts of fossil fuel pollution.
Students rallied in support of the “Polluters Pay Climate Superfund” bill, which was introduced in February and is in committee until January, when legislators are scheduled to debate it. The bill would require oil and gas companies who did business in California between 1990 and 2024 to pay into a state-managed fund to offset the impact of fossil-fuel pollution in the soil and groundwater.
As the students marched, they chanted: “Shame on PG&E!” and “Oakland youth, rising strong, we’ve been here all along.”…