Sometimes the Best Bills are the Hardest to Pass in the State Legislature

Sometimes bills that make the most sense can be the hardest to pass in California’s Legislature. And so it goes with Senate Bill 210 by Senator Connie Leyva (D-Chino). This bill isn’t so difficult to understand. It simply requires big-rig diesel trucks to get smog certified. You didn’t know that those heavy-duty trucks rolling to … Read more

With Memories of a Smoggier LA in Years Past, I (Nervously) Embark on a New Clean-Air Career

Last Friday I found myself in a place I had never been before in my 20-plus years working on public policy – testifying before the powerful California Air Resources Board, arguably one of the most influential regulatory bodies in the nation. This was my first foray before CARB as Coalition for Clean Air’s newly hired … Read more