In 1964, California had 66 county hospitals. Today there are only 16.
Since 1995, 20 of California’s rural hospitals have shut down, despite a growing rural population.
California ranks among the 10 worst states in emergency response times.
Between 2002 and 2009, there was a 10 percent reduction in California’s hospital beds.
Alameda County can cover the costs of 3,200 more people to receive health care at community clinics and connect 750 people with mental health or substance abuse support.
Los Angeles County can cover the costs for 48,000 more people to receive health care at community clinics.
San Francisco County can cover the costs for 12,000 more people to receive health care at community clinics, and 1,000 more undocumented residents to get affordable health care.
Santa Clara County can cover the costs of 8,500 more people to receive health care at community clinics.

About California’s Public Health Care Systems (2021). California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems. Retrieved from https://caph.org/memberdirectory/about-californias-public-health-care-systems/.
Ghisolfi, C. (2019). As rural hospitals and health care struggle, California hospitals are fighting back. The Sacramento Bee. Retrieved from https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article232839192.html#storylink=cpy.
Graphiq. (2016). California among 10 states with worst emergency response times. The Mercury News. Retrieved from https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/06/15/california-among-10-states-with-worst-emergency-response-times/.
Lin II, R & Poindexter, S & W, Ben & Yoshino, K. California’s Hospitals: Emergency Room Closures. The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved from http://projects.latimes.com/hospitals/emergency-rooms/no/closed/list/.
Fuller, T., & Fernandez, M. (2020). Surging Virus Exposes California's Weak Spot: A Lack of Hospital Beds and Staff. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/us/california-hospital-bed-shortage.html?campaign_id=49&emc=edit_ca_20201202&instance_id=24639&nl=california-today®i_id=35612833&segment_id=45855&te=1&user_id=96b4f9137f49f1a6f48fa3576d582959.

In 2020 wildfires burned over 4 million acres, more than doubling the previous record.
Five of the six largest wildfires ever recorded in the state happened in 2020.
From 1994-2014, firefighter staffing based on population was cut by 24%.
In order to save nearly $100 million a year, between 35% and 40% of the firefighters employed by CalFire are prisoners working for just $2 a day.

Stelloh, T. (2020). California exceeds 4 million acres burned by wildfires in 2020. NBC News. Retrieved from https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-exceeds-4-million-acres-burned-wildfires-2020-n1242078.
Milman, O & Ho, V. (2020). California Wildfires Spawn First 'Gigafire' in Modern History. The Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/06/california-wildfires-gigafire-first.
Hanna, J & Karimi, F & Vercammen, P. (2020). California fires: Firefighters say they're struggling, and more lightning could make everything worse. CNN News. Retrieved from https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/22/us/california-wildfires/index.html.
Mishanec, N. (2020). Wildfires deal another blow to Northern California's fragile bee populations. SF Chronicle. Retrieved from https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Wildfires-deal-another-blow-to-Northern-15758799.php.
Phillips, A. (2021). It’s California wildfire season. But firefighters say federal hotshot crews are understaffed. LA Times. Retrieved from https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2021-05-18/hotshot-shortage-hits-california-as-wildfire-season-begins.

Approximately 2.17 million Californians live within 2,500 feet of an operational oil and gas well
- About 7.37 million Californians live within 1 mile.
Groups closer to oil and gas wells have higher proportions of Non-white and Latinx populations, as well as higher proportions of low-income households.
93% of the offsets Chevron bought and counted towards its climate targets from voluntary carbon markets between 2020 and 2022 were too environmentally problematic to be classified as anything other than worthless or junk.

Ferrar, K. (2020). People and production: Reducing risk in California extraction. Fracktracker. Retrieved from https://www.fractracker.org/2020/12/people-and-production/#:~:text=This%20analysis%20shows%20that%20approximately,Californians%20live%20within%201%20mile.
Kolesnikoff, A. & Brown, C. (2018). State oil and severance taxes. National Conference of State Legislatures. Retrieved from https://www.ncsl.org/energy/state-oil-and-gas-severance-taxes.
Dominguez, R. (2021). Why we’re holding Chevron accountable for its greenwashing campaigns. Earthworks. Retrieved from https://earthworks.org/blog/why-were-holding-chevron-accountable-for-its-greenwashing-campaigns/.
Aguirre, C. & Kretzmann, H. (2023). California has more than 35,000 idle oil wells: Taxpayers should not have to pay for the cleanup. CalMatters. Retrieved from https://calmatters.org/commentary/2023/07/idle-oil-wells-taxpayer-cleanup/.
Lakhani, N. (2023). ‘Worthless’: Chevron’s carbon offsets are junk and some may harm, research says. The Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/24/chevron-carbon-offset-climate-crisis.