SACRAMENTO, CA — California Environmental Voters Education Fund (EnviroVoters Ed Fund) launched a new television ad as part of its Fight the Greed campaign. The ad is part of a growing response to a multimillion-dollar misinformation campaign from the fossil fuel industry and calls out oil and gas companies and for-profit utilities for their role in blocking clean energy.
Titled “Dirty Days,” the ad plays off the Groundhog Day theme from the iconic 1993 movie and shows the perpetual cycle facing Californians as they confront higher and higher energy costs, which impact everything from utility bills and gas prices to insurance bills, food costs, and health care costs. We see a family struggling every day with high energy prices while clean energy progress is repeatedly blocked by fossil fuel interests whose profits continue to increase. Last year, PG&E raised rates six times and has raised rates twice in the first half of 2025, contributing to a 101% rate increase over the past ten years — all while raking in record profits.
Meanwhile, oil and gas companies are busy lobbying Sacramento lawmakers for bailouts and pro-drilling concessions. As revealed in their latest public filings, oil and gas companies spent over $18 million influencing lawmakers in the first half of 2025 to kill key climate bills that would hold polluters accountable for their climate impact, and provide immediate relief for Californians struggling with affordability. At the same time, the Big Five refiners in California — Chevron, Phillips 66, Marathon Petroleum, Valero, and PBF Energy — reported $27.4 billion in profits in 2024. Meanwhile, California Resources Corp, which owns and operates the largest number of oil and gas wells statewide, earned $376 million in 2024.
“Californians are fed up with politicians delivering for corporations at their expense,” says Mary Creasman, CEO of EnviroVoters Ed Fund. “They’re ready to transition to cheaper, safer, more resilient clean energy sources and they’re sick of seeing efforts blocked by the oil and gas companies and for-profit utilities. The future we want is available today, we just need corporate greed to get out of the way.”
The ads, which can be seen here, will run through the summer and direct viewers to the campaign’s landing page: www.FightTheGreed.org.
“Dirty Days” follows an earlier set of two ads by EnviroVoters Ed Fund which launched in June, which had over 2 million completed video views by over half of a million people. The Fight the Greed campaign complements numerous other efforts criticizing the oil industry, as groups continue to signal dissatisfaction with the fossil fuel industry’s role in slowing climate progress.
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Erika Guzman Cornejo
(310) 755-1615
erika@envirovoters.org
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