OpEd: What the 2024 election means for California’s air and climate
California will need to be ready to defend our people’s rights to clean air and water.
Despite budget cuts, some clean air wins
The 2024-2025 State Budget agreement represents a major setback for California’s climate and clean air commitments. For the second straight year, California will delay and cut hundreds of millions of dollars in climate investments. These cuts will impact California’s efforts to deploy clean vehicles, expand transit as well as build biking and pedestrian infrastructure. Further, … Read more
Dead End Road: California Agencies Continue to Invest in Highway Expansions
California prides itself on being the land of opportunity. It is a place that welcomes all and inspires with its unique diversity of life, nature, and cultures. Yet over the past seventy years, our state has spent billions of funding on highway expansion projects that increase poverty, reduce the quality of life, separate communities, destroy … Read more
Updates From the Capitol: Improving California’s Key Transportation Programs
This year has been tough for clean transportation in California. With the State making budget cuts and a powerful highway lobby pushing back, the Coalition for Clean Air and our allies have had our work cut out for us. CCA is one of the leaders of a climate budget defense campaign that seeks to protect … Read more
CCA’s First Ever Solutions Tour
This April, in time for Earth Day, we held the inaugural Solutions Tour organized by the Coalition for Clean Air at the San Pedro Bay Ports. The tour’s goals were to highlight the power of collaboration, innovation, and investment in advancing clean air for the South Coast Air Basin. With site visits across the port … Read more
CCA’s Policy Forecast for the Coming Year
Updates From the Capitol: Improving California’s Key Transportation Programs This year has been tough for clean transportation in California. With the State making budget cuts and a powerful highway lobby pushing back, the Coalition for Clean Air and our allies have had our work cut out for us. CCA is one of the leaders of … Read more
CCA: Decades of Impact – 2010 and Beyond
2010 and Beyond If you’ve made it this far, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for reading these. I’m very grateful to Nicole Roberts, our Development Director and Dr. Joe Lyou, our President and CEO for allowing me the time and space to write these blogs and dig into CCA’s history. Like any … Read more
CCA: Decades of Impact – The 2000s
Welcome to the 21st century, you survived Y2k (again!). Two quick notes: 1) in the last blog, we mostly covered the legacy of Denny Zane, whose contribution has gone down in Los Angeles history. Tim Carmichael started as Executive Director in the late ‘90s and, therefore, should have started in that blog, I’m discussing CCA’s … Read more