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Scientists agree the next decade of climate action will be critical in averting catastrophe, but policy in California hasn’t matched the urgency of science.

On July 19, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to ban fracking in the county — the first county in the Bay Area to pass an ordinance to do so.

Sheehan became the face of an anti-war movement in 2005, when she set up camp outside a Crawford, Texas, ranch and refused to leave until George W. Bush — who was on vacation there — agreed to meet with her. Sheehan dubbed the site of her protest Camp Casey, after her son, Casey Sheehan, who was killed at age 24 while serving in the U.S. Army in Baghdad, Iraq, the year before. Sheehan blamed Bush for her son’s death and wanted an explanation.

The day after the four year anniversary of the catastrophic BP oil spill, about 20 students, clad entirely in black, circled and sprawled around a miniature wooden oil rig covered with protest signs.

In September 2011, Gov. Jerry Brown stated, "It's time for courage, it's time for creativity and it's time for boldness to tackle climate change."