On Monday, February 2nd, San Diegans came out to protest San Diego Gas and Electric for making record profits while charging some of the highest rates in the country. We made our voices heard at the Rady Shell where SDG&E president, Scott Crider was speaking, to say NO MORE!
See the photos and news coverage.

Learn how to take part in defending and advancing democracy. We will discuss success stories of how people have resisted authoritarianism in other countries to better inform the work we do.

WHEN: Mon, Feb 23 @ 6 pm – 7:30 pm
WHERE: Zoom

Join us to plan SanDiego350’s actions to uphold and advance democracy. We’ll build on the education of the February training to come together and dig into the next steps.

WHEN: Sun, March 22 @ 2 pm – 4 pm
WHERE: TBD

On Feb 12th, the White House announced that “We are officially terminating the so-called endangerment finding, a disastrous Obama-era policy that severely damaged the American auto industry and massively drove up prices for American consumers.”

With these words, the Administration has embraced climate denial as official U.S. policy, ignoring the life-threatening impacts of climate change that millions of Americans face every day. The 2009 Endangerment Finding found that climate change causes a serious threat to human health, obligating the EPA under the law to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and pollutants. SD350 strongly opposes this rollback, see our CBS-8 interview.

By Ken Kobayashi, MD

Climate change disproportionately impacts communities that contribute the least to global greenhouse gas emissions, making climate migration one of the most urgent justice issues of our time. In San Diego, climate migration is no longer theoretical. Migrants arriving at the  U.S.–Mexico border increasingly cite drought, crop failure, extreme heat, and  climate-driven economic collapse as reasons for displacement. Yet U.S. immigration law does not recognize climate migrants as refugees, leaving many without legal protection. This legal gap turns climate displacement into a humanitarian crisis, where people fleeing environmental harm face detention, deportation, and denial of basic rights. 

By Ruby Melchior, SD350 Member

Like our landscapes, cars have dominated American pop culture, redefining our personal relationships to space, sustainable development, and freedom. Modern pop culture disempowers young people and the urbanist movement by associating cars with personal and economic freedom and paints an unwillingness to engage with an undoubtedly car-centric society as a personal shortcoming.

Despite continued expansions to regional transit and improved safety outcomes, without addressing America’s bias against public transportation in film and media, mass transit will continue to be subjected to budget cuts that decrease public participation in these essential services. 

By Carmen Berry, SD350 Volunteer

If you’re familiar with Youth v. Oil and Youth4Climate’s recent work, you’ve likely heard of our priority campaign from the past year: the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act of 2025 (AB 1243 and SB 684). These bills were landmark pieces of legislation that would make the top fossil fuel companies pay for the climate damages they’ve inflicted. 

For several major reasons — Gov. Newsom’s pro-oil shift, concerns over gas prices, and record-high CA oil lobbying — the bills will not be moving forward in 2026. Personally, I am outraged and shocked: shocked at the discrepancy between elected officials’ priorities and our own and outraged that California refuses to strengthen its climate leadership amidst the Trump era. Make no mistake: our efforts are not over.

By Sofia C (she/her) Youth v. Oil Intern

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