Superstorms. Floods. Polluted air and water. Toxic emissions. Record-breaking wildfires. Extreme heat waves. Megadrought.

These climate disasters are happening now, are actively taking lives, and are becoming bigger, stronger, and more devastating as a result of drilling for and burning of fossil fuels.

We do have hope: in solutions to this crisis, a movement of millions, and a governor who is calling out the record profits and devastating pollution of Big Oil.

But as we fight for our lives and work to transition off of dirty fossil fuels and toward a renewable and just energy system that our children and grandchildren can live and breathe with, the fossil fuel industry is fighting back so they can keep drilling in our most vulnerable communities.

Around the world and here in California the fossil fuel industry is raking in billions in record profits from war profiteering and driving up gas prices. Meanwhile, the industry is using those profits to block essential climate protections and roll back landmark environmental justice laws — all so they can fulfill their dying wish to drill more, delay the transition to a fossil-free future, and pollute as they please, poisoning the air we breathe.

We cannot let Big Oil do this. As a global climate movement, we must hold the line against the villains who have knowingly been cooking our planet and jeopardizing our futures. There's a saying: As goes California, so goes the world. We must fight them here, and win. After all, if we cannot defeat Big Oil in California, where can we? We can and must become a model for the world on how to resist Big Oil's shady dealings and ensure lasting climate justice.

That's why we need you now, to join the Big Oil Resistance to plug in to on-the-ground and digital organizing opportunities as we scale up our fight for climate justice and ensure that Governor Newsom takes Big Oil to the mat.

This is the year the people strike back. This is the year we win.

We are asking Governor Newsom to:

• Stop issuing new permits for fossil fuel projects, including no new permits for oil and gas drilling, fossil fuel infrastructure, or petrochemical projects in California;
• Implement a health and safety buffer zone to protect those suffering the most from oil and gas extraction: mostly frontline and fenceline communities, low-wealth and communities of color.
• Lead on a statewide phase-out plan that minimizes the damage this dying industry does on its way out the door, protects and supports workers, communities and economies, and ensures that polluters pay for the damage they've done.