Good news: Your e-comments have come pouring in, and last week's closed CEC hearing was extended! We have more time to make our voices known. The CEC will receive comments until May 10 when the preliminary decision on the Puente Power Plant is set for release-- But FOR THE GREATEST IMMEDIATE IMPACT, PLEASE SEND E-COMMENTS IN TIME FOR THEIR HEARING TODAY 2/22 BY 2PM PST. Go to the CEC website and file an e-comment: https://efiling.energy.ca.gov/Ecomment/Ecomment.aspx?docketnumber=15-AFC-01 Even if you write just one or two sentences, opposing the plant, it will help. Please put in the Comment Title space language like: No on PPP, Stop the PPP, We don't need another power plant, Stop Environmental Racism, or any variation of these messages! For those who are not based in California, you can still make your comments to fight for climate justice, environmental justice and alternative, renewable energy. For more information about why the PPP is an environmental justice issue, keep reading below. Thank you for forwarding widely to your friends and networks! While today's hearing is a closed session, the CEC is required to announce their preliminary decision at a public hearing- they can't hide behind closed doors then! We will keep updating you until then and beyond- we will not give up the fight and thank you for fighting alongside us! --------------- Please help us fight against another toxic power plant proposed to be built in Oxnard on our coast! This is a textbook case of environmental racism here in the community of Oxnard, where 85% of the population is Latino, 29% lives in linguistic isolation, 56% lives below two times the federal poverty level, and 46% of those over 25 years of age have less than a high school education. Oxnard neighborhoods already have some of the highest rates of asthma in California, and each day thousands of farmer workers are even closer to the existing and proposed plants than local residents, working in fields less than half a mile from the site. Nearby, their children are the youth who are most likely in the country to be attending schools next to fields doused with toxic pesticides. To learn more about the issue and why this is environmental racism, please watch the video, "Why Oxnard?" As Raul Lopez, an organizer with CAUSE (Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy), says: "Our city council of Oxnard is unanimously against it. Our county supervisor is against it. All of the community that's come to speak, they're against it. The only people I've heard in favor of this project on that microphone inside have been people who directly benefit in their pocket." As you may have learned already, the LA Times has reported that California already has a surplus of power, and no new power plants are needed. They are only generating profits for energy industry corporations, not necessary power. See http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-electricity-capacity/