Tell the Dodgers to Cut Ties to Big Oil
The Los Angeles Dodgers have a sponsorship deal with oil giant Phillips 66, owner of the 76 gas-station brand whose logo and ads are plastered across Dodger Stadium.
Join thousands of Dodger fans and concerned citizens who have signed an Open Letter urging team owners to drop the sponsorship. Add your name to the petition today.
We are Dodger Fans Against Fossil Fuels
Initial List of Signatories
- 350 Bay Area Action
- 350 Conejo Valley
- 350 Southland Legislative Alliance
- 350 South Bay Los Angeles
- Active San Gabriel Valley, David Diaz, executive director
- Adopt a Charger
- Alexandra Paul, Los Angeles, actress (original “Baywatch” series); environmental advocate
- Andrew Frank, professor, UC Davis mechanical and aerospace engineering (emeritus)
- Ballona Institute, Robert Jan van de Hoek, environmental scientist
- Ban SUP (Single Use Plastic), Cheryl Auger, president
- Barbara Hensleigh, chair, Sierra Club Central Group
- Benjamin Kay, adjunct associate professor, life and environmental sciences, Santa Monica College
- Benjamin Zuckerman, astrophysicist; professor, UCLA department of physics and astronomy (emeritus)
- Bill McKibben, climate activist; author, journalist and founder of Third Act
- Brandon C.C. Smith, Los Angeles, EVNoire, program manager
- Breathe So Cal
- Brian Rooney, Cornell, volunteer, California State Parks, 24 years
- Carlos Morales, Azusa, owner, Stans Bike Shop; founder, Eastside Bike Club
- Center for Biological Diversity
- Chris Paine, Los Angeles, director (“Who Killed the Electric Car?” and “Rise of the Electric Car”)
- Climate Action Santa Monica
- Climate Reality Project, San Fernando Valley
- Coby Skye, Long Beach, Blue Skye Environmental Consulting; deputy director, LA County Public Works (retd)
- Cody Peluso, social impact and partnerships manager, Population Media Center
- Coltura, a nonprofit working to speed the transition off gasoline
- Cris Gutierrez, Santa Monica, Clean Power Alliance, community advisor
- David Haake, Sierra Club West LA Group Chair
- Defend Ballona Wetlands, Marcia Hanscom, community organizer
- Dency Nelson, Delegate, California State Democratic Party; Directors Guild of America, 40-year member
- Doreen Garcia, Olympia, WA
- Dyana Peña, Sierra Club Angeles Chapter Chair, OC EJ Chair, OC Coast Keeper Director
- Earthworks
- Emery Cunningham, Santa Monica Safe Streets Alliance, youth leadership collective, co-chair
- Erik M. Conway, Los Angeles, author and historian
- Evan George, UCLA Emmett Institute, communications director
- Friends of the Earth
- Gabrielle Weeks, Long Beach, chair, Sierra Club Long Beach Area Group
- Habits of Waste
- Helen San Miguel Noble, Seal Beach
- Indivisible South Bay LA
- Izumi Tanaka, Green Realtor®, LEED Green Associate, LFA
- Jenn Greenhut, Los Angeles, Zero Negative Foundation
- Jon Jenkins, Moorpark
- John Densmore, Los Angeles native, drummer for The Doors
- Jordan Howard, Los Angeles, sustainability/community engagement strategist, ShftSpace
- Kelly Kent, president, Culver City Unified School Board
- Kyra Sedgwick, Emmy Award-winning actor and environmentalist
- Linda Elkman, Sherman Oaks
- Linda Nicholes, Huntington Beach, past president, Plug In America; Defenders of Wildlife, supporter
- Lisa Hart, Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance, executive director
- Lisa Kaas Boyle, Los Angeles, environmental attorney
- Marco Gaxiola, electrical engineer, among 120 leaders objecting to Toyota’s hydrogen-powered Mirai as 2024 Olympics’ official vehicle
- Mark R. Morris, astrophysicist; professor, UCLA department of physics and astronomy (emeritus)
- Marshall H. Cohen, Pasadena, professor of astronomy, Caltech (emeritus)
- Maya Williams, youth plaintiff suing the federal government over climate change (Genesis B. v. EPA)
- Meghan Sahli-Wells, national board director, Sierra Club; California director, Elected Officials to Protect America; former Mayor, Culver City
- Michelle Pierce, Riverside, co-founder, Inland Empire Electric Vehicle Association
- Mike Farrell, actor (“M*A*S*H”); human rights and social justice advocate
- Monica Embrey, Sierra Club Central Group, political chair
- Naomi Oreskes, history of science professor, Harvard University; 2023 TIME top 100 climate leader
- Naomi Seligman, Los Angeles, accountability leader
- Ocean Defenders Alliance, Huntington Beach
- Paul Scott, Santa Monica, co-founder, Plug In America
- Plastic Pollution Coalition, global alliance fighting plastic pollution
- Population Media Center
- R. Christopher Yoder, Altadena, EV driver since 1991
- Rachel S. Doughty, Berkeley, attorney, Greenfire Law, PC
- Rainforest Action Network
- Rebecca Ninburg, City of Los Angeles Fire Commissioner (frm)
- Resilient Palisades
- Ron Freund, Los Gatos, co-founder, Plug In America
- Sara N. Nichols, TreePeople, board member
- Sarah Spitz, Los Angeles, KCRW producer (retd); master gardener
- Shelley Fabares, actor, Alzheimer’s Association ambassador
- Sierra Club Angeles Chapter, Morgan Goodwin, chapter director
- Sustainable Electric Solutions, Inc., Pomona, Aaron Sims, Lisa Rosen
- Team Marine, environmental activism group, Santa Monica High School
- The Last Plastic Straw, Santa Cruz
- Third Act SoCal
- Warren Olney, Los Angeles, TV and public radio broadcaster
- WeTap.org, L.A. nonprofit highlighting access to public water
- Yellow Dot Studios, Los Angeles, founded by Adam McKay (“Don’t Look Up”)
- Zan Dubin, Los Angeles, led campaign to electrify Disneyland’s Autopia
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NATIONAL PROTEST PRESS RELEASE – 2026
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Zan Dubin (310) 383-0956
zan@zdscommunications.com
SIMULTANEOUS PROTESTS AGAINST FOSSIL FUEL SPORTSWASHING PLANNED AT 10 STADIUMS COAST TO COAST
Environmentalists will protest fossil fuel sponsorships at major league baseball, football, soccer and basketball venues from L.A. to Boston
LOS ANGELES, CA—Feb. 4, 2026: Climate activists in 10 cities will protest sportswashing on Tue., Feb. 17 at 8:30 a.m. PST/10:30 a.m. CT/11:30 a.m. ET at stadiums in cities from Los Angeles to Boston whose professional teams are sponsored by fossil fuel interests.
The national protest, inspired by protests at L.A.’s Dodger Stadium, is an expansion of Dodger Fans Against Fossil Fuels, a Sierra Club Angeles Chapter campaign endorsed by California state Sen. Lena Gonzalez and eminent environmentalists urging Dodger owners to drop their sponsorship deal with oil giant Phillips 66.
Phillips 66 had been scheduled for trial on Feb. 17 on a Clean Water Act federal criminal indictment fordumping wastewater into the L.A. County sewer system at its Carson refinery. The trial has been postponed until 2029, but protests will proceed at Dodger Stadium and nine other baseball, football, soccer and basketball fields in Sacramento, San Francisco, Portland, St. Louis, Atlanta, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Boston and New York City (details below).
Dodger Stadium is plastered with giant logos for the 76 gas chain owned by Phillips 66. (San Francisco’s Oracle Park, also sponsored by 76, bears that logo.) Dodger protestors will include Lamentors, street-theater protestors clad in sack cloth, headscarves and ashes to express climate grief. Oil companies have long used partnerships with trusted, beloved institutions like World Series-winning teams to insidiously influence the way fans perceive them.
“We love these teams,” said national protest lead Zan Dubin. “But, as carbon emissions reach historic highs and fans and athletes swelter in record heat, we condemn the sportswashing that seeks to make us root for Big Oil the way we root for Shohei Ohtani. Team owners must end their complicity in this deceitful practice. We are urging them to show true leadership and stop advertising for fossil fuels now.”
Protests are planned at the 10 stadiums below. Their listed sponsors include oil conglomerates, big banks that finance major oil and gas projects, and fossil fuel-heavy utilities. For local media contacts/interviews/photos: Zan Dubin (310) 383-0956/zan@zdscommunications.com
- Los Angeles, Dodger Stadium, Dodgers (Phillips 66/76 gas)
- San Francisco, Oracle Park, Giants (Phillips 66/76 gas)
- Sacramento, Golden 1 Center, Sacramento Kings (AM/PM, owned by BP)
- Portland, Providence Park, Portland Timbers (Bank of America)
- St. Louis, Busch Stadium, St. Louis Cardinals (Phillips 66)
- Atlanta, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, FIFA World Cup (Aramco)
- Cleveland, Progressive Field, Cleveland Guardians (Marathon)
- Philadelphia, Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia Eagles (NRG)
- New York City, Citi Field, Mets (Citi bank)
- Boston, TD Garden, Boston Celtics (Gulf)
Expert Quotes:
Juanita Chavez, director, Sierra Club Angeles Chapter: “The Dodgers rejected stadium cigarette ads decades ago for good reason. Bans on tobacco advertising lead to fewer people smoking. The team showed a similar responsiveness to fans last year, albeit too little and too late, by turning away federal immigration agents and pledging funds to help immigrant families. We’re asking Dodger owners to show the same concern for their fans’ health and our planet by refusing to allow Big Oil to advertise in their stadium.”
Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University historian: “Corporations that practice sportswashing buy goodwill by doing things that are genuinely good, like financially backing beloved teams, in order to distract us from the things they’re doing that are genuinely bad. They are advertising products that are killing people, damaging property, and making it hard to do things we care about, like play baseball or go skiing, as weather worsened by climate change melts snow or raises temperatures unbearably.”
Bill McKibben, author, environmentalist; co-founder Third Act/350.org: “The greatest threat to sports in the years ahead is the rapid rise in temperature, which increasingly makes it too hot and stormy to play. So, you might say it’s an error for those who enjoy–and profit from–sports to be collaborating with the industry doing the most to overheat the planet.”
Sam Mattis, American Olympic discus thrower (Tokyo 2021, Paris 2024) training for the 2028 games: “In the last five years, I’ve had to cancel training because of flooding and wildfire smoke; I’ve had to compete in extreme heat waves with track surfaces exceeding 140 degrees; and I’ve had a heat stroke while competing. Climate change from fossil fuel emissions is affecting sports right now and is a direct threat to the future of sport, as well. The companies polluting our atmosphere and endangering sports have no business doing business with the teams and games we love.”
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