Emeryville Scrapes Bottom on Climate Score

Worst in Northern Alameda County:

Emeryville Fails Climate Audit

The Bay Area’s Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force released their Alameda County Climate Scorecard this week, revealing Emeryville to be dead last among cities in northern Alameda County on critical climate issues.  The task force, a Bay Area wide coalition of elected officials, city and county staff, community based non-governmental organizations, youth, environmental and social activists and “front line communities”, released the scorecard Tuesday.  

Below 50 is a fail.

The scorecard shows Emeryville tied with Dublin for 11th place out of the 15 municipalities in the Alameda County, and ranked as dead last among the seven northern County cities.  The three cities of Berkeley, San Leandro, and Alameda received the highest scores, with ratings of 66, 64, and 62 respectively, while Emeryville only managed to score 44.

Emeryville received failing marks in all five public policy categories and failed four of the five transportation measures.  The public policy measures were Emeryville's greatest weakness as both Berkeley and Oakland received top scores in four of those five measures, in contrast to Emeryville's across-the-board failures.  

Looked at numerically, the scorecard should serve as a wake up call to the cities scoring lower than 50; the bottom half.  Across the entire county, only Newark, Union City and Livermore scored worse overall than Emeryville.

The climate task force teamed up with undergraduate students at the University of California Berkeley to produce the document entitled ‘Alameda County Climate Scorecard 2023-2024’.  Motivating the partnership is the desire to “address societal challenges and for more equitable communities across California” the team reports.

The scorecard may be viewed here: 

https://files.constantcontact.com/79bfd5a6601/6d1918e9-1667-42e0-abaf-2c1d953254aa.pdf

 https://files.constantcontact.com/79bfd5a6601/6d1918e9-1667-42e0-abaf-2c1d953254aa.pdf

Surging Seas: Republicans or Not, Here We Come

In the event the Bay Area can't get it together to build the largest, most complex and the most expensive dike ever built in the world (across the Golden Gate, up to 335 feet deep with violent currents moving 2.3 million cubic feet per second) over the next few decades or so (the replacement of the Bay Bridge eastern span took 25 years), Emeryville's moistened future can be viewed at the link below:

We're Screwed!