Senator Wahab: Support the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act of 2025
State Senator Aisha Wahab,
In the first weeks of 2025, flames engulfed whole neighborhoods in Los Angeles, forcing tens of thousands to evacuate and leaving heart-wrenching destruction behind them. This climate disaster alone is estimated to have cost $250 billion, and the fires are still burning.
Climate change is here and the costs are escalating. Who is going to pay for these damages?
The world's biggest fossil fuel polluters are overwhelmingly responsible for climate devastation, but right now California taxpayers are footing the bill. We’ve paid enough.
By establishing a Climate Superfund, California can make the biggest fossil fuel polluters pay for the climate damages they’ve caused. Using this fund, the state can lower costs for Californians while investing in rebuilding communities, supporting workers exposed to climate threats, growing resilience to climate harms, and getting off fossil fuels.
Vermont and New York have just passed climate superfunds and California should too.
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State Senator Aisha Wahab,
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I’m urging you to vote yes on the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act of 2025 to make polluters pay for the escalating costs of climate change in California.
In the first weeks of 2025, extreme, climate-driven, wildfires once again ravaged our state. Whole neighborhoods burned to the ground in Los Angeles. The devastation caused by this disaster alone is estimated to have cost $250 billion, destroyed 16,000 structures, and resulted in the tragic deaths of 28 people.
One conservative estimate predicts climate change will cost the state over $113 billion annually by 2050 but it’s already costing us billions in damages in 2025. Who is going to pay for this?
Taxpayers and families struggling to rebuild should not be bearing the full cost for the climate damages caused by big polluters. The costs of climate change combined with the affordability crisis are stretching Californians to breaking point. Californians have paid enough.
The Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act ensures the largest fossil fuel polluters, who have done the most to cause the climate crisis, pay their fair share for the damages their products have inflicted.
Californians urgently need you to pass a Climate Superfund bill to bring down costs while ensuring we have the resources to respond to climate catastrophes, protect workers from climate threats, build climate resilient neighborhoods, prepare for future climate harms, and accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels.
Thank you.