This week, Governor Newsom’s appointees are planning on taking billions of dollars AWAY from public transit and affordable housing programs in order to give big polluters like Chevron permission to cook our planet.

Turn out this Wednesday, May 27th, to send the message loud and clear to Governor Newsom and the California Air Resources Board: Fund transit and affordable housing, not give-aways to big polluters.

Last year, the California Legislature agreed to direct billions of dollars toward transit, affordable housing, and clean air for years to come by extending the Cap-and-Invest Program. But this week, the program administrators at the California Air Resources Board (CARB) will vote on a proposal that essentially drains the program and defunds public transit and affordable housing programs.

CARB’s proposal slashes affordable transit-oriented housing, major public transit projects, transit services, and discounted transit pass programs throughout the entire state by up to $2 billion each year over the next four years -- while giving big polluters billions of dollars in permissions to pollute.

And although the current structure of the program should mean that funding for high-speed rail is safe, shenanigans like this from CARB throw the reliability of the whole Cap & Invest program at risk.

We can still stop this giveaway to big polluters – but we are all going to have to get loud.

Turn out this Wednesday at noon at San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza to send the message loud and clear to Governor Newsom and the California Air Resources Board: Fund transit and affordable housing, not give-aways to big polluters.

Rally organized by Transbay Coalition, Seamless Bay Area, APEN, TransForm, Public Advocates, East Bay Transit Riders Union, and San Francisco Transit Riders