2025

On May 7, 2025, ECOS submitted a letter to the Sacramento Local Area Formation Commission (LAFCo) regarding the Continued Public Hearing To Consider And Certify The Environmental Impact Report And Approve The Respective Amendments To The Spheres Of Influence For The City Of Sacramento And Sacramento Area Sewer District (LAFCo Project #2023-03).

Click here to read our letter.

You can read the recap and/or watch the recording of their last meeting on this here.

Sign the Airport South petition here.

Please attend the Airport South/LAFCo Meeting 5/7/2025

The Sacramento Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) will vote on May 7, 2025 on the two items they deferred on April 2: Adding ASIP to the City Sphere of Influence and certifying the ASIP EIR. The Agenda and supporting documents are here. LAFCo will allow public comment at the May 7 meeting.

When: Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at 5:30pm
Where: 700 H St., Sacramento, CA (in board chambers)

What you can do

Please show up, bring a friend, and bring a sign to express your opposition! It will be very important to be in the room and show the commissioners just how many people oppose the project.

Sign the petition here.

We hope to see you on May 7th for this important vote!

Make Polluters Pay Rally in Sacramento 5/27/2025

The fossil fuel industry has enjoyed some of the best profit margins in history, while externalizing the costs of their operations onto our health, communities, and our planet. They have known for decades the impacts of their industry pollution on the climate, and they continue to obstruct the energy transition. Big Oil has used these profits to corrupt our government at all levels, and Trump said the quiet part out loud during his campaign, promising big tax cuts and deregulation in exchange for millions in contributions. Now the administration is gutting agencies and programs that protect people and planet, and pursuing the “drill baby drill” agenda.

In California, the word “unprecedented” has started to lose its meaning as wildfires, floods, droughts, sea level rise, and even fire tornados hammer the golden state regularly. And as a potential Trump recession looms, social programs, environmental protection and disaster relief, among others, may face major face cuts as the state budget faces shortfalls. California is on the verge of joining Vermont and New York in creating a Climate Superfund, but we need your support!

It is past time that we hold polluters accountable for the damage they have caused, and make the major investments that our communities desperately need. It is time to Make Polluters Pay! Join us at a peaceful rally in Sacramento at the West Steps of the Capitol from 5 – 7pm on May 27th.

RSVP here

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.

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

Get ready…get set…and give!

By giving to ECOS, you empower us to keep building a more sustainable, just, and livable region for all. Your support helps break down environmental inequities, strengthen communities, and bring together people and organizations committed to real change.

Your gift clears the air, plants the seeds, and lights the trail toward a better future.

Be the spark that guides us forward!

You can find our donation page for Big Day of Giving at: https://www.bigdayofgiving.org/organization/Ecos

Interested in knowing how your donation will be put to action?

Your contribution funds will help support ECOS volunteers and staff in the areas of policy analysis, legal action, administration, and site maintenance related to the following goals:

Protect open space in Natomas from proposed development.
Win Yolo-80 lawsuit so that Caltrans follows SB743 and SACOG’s Blueprint on future projects.
Expand the public transit network within Sacramento County.
Build relationships with high schools for the Environmental Justice Team.
Urge Sacramento County to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through better land use toward infill and away from new greenfield/sprawl developments.
Conduct our South Sacramento Park 99/infill study.
Ensure our region’s climate action plans are comprehensive and meet state laws and goals.
Work to achieve a beneficial Water Forum Agreement 2.
Ensure environmental/equity concerns are met in multiple multiyear water supply projects.
Increase support for a Natural Lands Campaign Resolution for better management of natural areas within urban parks.
Craft a strategy for implementing California’s 30×30 initiative in the SACOG Region.
Protect Blue Oak Woodlands from harm from a solar field development in east Sacramento County.
Continue resistance to the huge Delta conveyance project.

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