asian pacific environmental network

APEN is building the power of Asian communities on the frontlines to stop big polluters from poisoning our families and destabilizing our climate. Pollution from dirty oil and gas doesn’t just impact our neighborhoods, it threatens every neighborhood by destabilizing our climate and intensifying extreme weather like droughts, floods, hurricanes, and typhoons. It exacerbates the injustices that already exist because the communities with the fewest material resources to prepare for and recover from these disasters are the first and worst hit. At the local level, that’s meant fighting to stop Chevron from expanding its massive oil refinery in Richmond so they could process dirtier, heavier crude oil from the Tar Sands and the Bakken Oil Fields; and organizing to stop big developers from transporting dirty coal through the Bay. At the state level, we’re forming powerful alliances to end public subsidies for fossil fuels. This means no new permits for big polluters, real caps on emissions at the facility level where they are created, and the rapid phase out of oil and gas production.