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Category Archives: ECOS Updates
Big Day of Giving 2025
“The environment is where we all meet, where we all have a mutual interest. It is the one thing all of us share.”
-Lady Bird Johnson
Early Giving Period Begins Today, April 17th, 2025!
If you are itching to donate don’t fret! By giving early, you help us continue our mission of achieving regional sustainability, dismantling historic environmental injustices, livable communities, and engaging individual and organizational members aligned with our goals.
An early gift opens the canopy, clears the skies, and lays the path for a livable tomorrow.
Be the light that leads the way!
ECOS Orientation 5/20/2025
Come learn what ECOS is all about! Attend our monthly orientation session on Tuesday, May 20, 2025 from 6:00 – 6:30pm via Zoom to get a broad overview of what ECOS does, why it matters and what you can do to help! This orientation can also help anyone wanting to learn more about environmental issues in the Sacramento region. We will cover our current goals that involve climate change prevention, promoting infill over sprawl development, transit, habitat protection and the wise use of water resources, among others.
Dave Jones to Speak to ECOS 4/29/2025
Environmental Council of Sacramento (ECOS): Climate Change Committee
Tuesday, April 29, 2025, hybrid meeting
6 PM Zoom: Link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6656164155
To phone in: 669-900-6833, Meeting ID: 665 616 4155
Join us in person! 5:30 PM start (drinks & snacks)
Mogavero Architects – 1331 T St. Sacramento
Marching Toward an Uninsurable Future:
The Failure to Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Insurance Crisis
Guest Speaker: Dave Jones, Director of UC Berkeley’s Climate Risk Initiative
When Dave was California’s Insurance Commissioner (2011 to 2018), he launched the Climate Risk Carbon Initiative – requiring insurers to disclose investments in fossil fuels. Earlier, Dave was a State Assemblymember, and a Sacramento City Councilmember.
We’re paying a lot more for home insurance in the Sacramento region, as insurance companies convince the State that they can’t afford to pay to rebuild homes destroyed by the increased wildfires cause by climate change. And yet our insurance companies have major investments in fossil fuel companies that cause climate change.
Let’s discuss what we can do!
5:30 PM: Social period, with drinks and snacks
6:00 PM: Introductions
6:10 PM: Dave Jones, Failure to Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Insurance Crisis
6:45 PM: Q&A, Discussion
7:15 PM: Updates, Announcements
- LAFCo hearing May 7 on Airport South Industrial project (ECOS opposed)
- ECOS lawsuit vs. Caltrans on Yolo/I-80 expansion (court date later this spring)
- Sacramento County’s Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force’s recommendations: workshops this summer
- Sierra Club lawsuit vs. Sacramento County’s Climate Action Plan – need to incentivize infill over sprawl.
- City’s lack of staff to implement its climate action plan
- Ballot measure 2026 to help fund transit in Sacramento County
- SMUD’s plan to achieve 2030 carbon zero, and locations of solar farms
- Upper West Side proposed development outside County’s Urban Services Boundary
- Others? Announcements?
Airport South – What Happened at LAFCo and What’s Next
April 9, 2025
Here is an update on the Airport South Industrial Project!
The Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) held the first hearing on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. The Community response during the nearly four hour hearing showed the depth of feeling and opposition to this project. About 80 written comments were submitted and more than forty people spoke against the project.
Some highlights of the hearing included expert testimony on the failure of the EIR to discuss truck ultrafine particulate emissions’ impacts on health of children and residents in the neighborhood. A retired planning commissioner and a retired school district board member spoke to the incompatibility of the project with the adjacent neighborhood. Other issues: I-5 corridor traffic and trucks already disrupting the neighborhood; the incompatibility of the 96 acres of detention basins with airport runway. The hearing is available on YouTube.com in the video below.
In the end, LAFCo continued the hearing (delayed their decision). Staff and lawyers appeared to be concerned about getting their paperwork in order, and because the City has not yet held a hearing on the project. The next LAFCo meeting is scheduled for May 7. Plan to be there and show your opposition.
Meanwhile, please help get more signatures on our petition. Over 1050 people have signed our petition against approving the project.
Click here to go to the petition.
ECOS Letter to LAFCo re Airport South, April 2, 2025
On April 2, 2025, ECOS submitted a letter to the the Sacramento Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) regarding the acreage proposed for Airport South Industrial (ASIP) and including it in the City’s Sphere of Influence (SOI).
Click here for more info on this vote.
Click here to read the letter in full.
