Blog Posts – Coalition for Clean Air

Guest Blog: What I Learned from Spending Three Days with Al Gore…

September 14, 2018

Originally posted on Eric Tepletz’s blog “People have three budgets: a time budget, a complexity budget, and a hope budget,” Al Gore explained to us during a three-day Climate Reality Leadership Corps

While the Lobbyists Crowd the Legislature with Bills to Benefit Their Clients, Some Measures Aimed at Public Benefits Rather than Corporate Profits Survive

September 7, 2018

Photo Credit: The Nation By Rocky Rushing There are 120 elected members of the California Legislature. They are in session nine months out of the year, deciding the fate of

Appeals Court Deals Major Blow to California’s Largest Warehouse Complex Plan

August 27, 2018

For immediate release. Re-posted from Center for Biological Diversity Ruling Halts World Logistics Center’s Initiative Use to Evade Environmental Review MORENO VALLEY, Calif.— An appeals court has dealt another major blow to a

ACTION ALERT

August 23, 2018

Support SB 100, the 100 Percent Clean Energy Act of 2017 Raise your voice for California to lead the way on climate and clean energy! Join with us and call

As California’s High Speed Rail Project Barrels Down the Tracks of Uncertainty, Could the Money Be Put to Better Use?

August 17, 2018

The on-going story of California’s ambitious and controversial high-speed rail project is a tale of two trains. To hear High Speed Rail Authority’s Chief Executive Officer Brian Kelly tell it,

Anger and Hope for the Future Fuels Clean-Air Hero Genevieve Gale

August 3, 2018

By Rocky Rushing Clean-air advocate Genevieve Gale gives no hint to what hides just beneath her pleasant smile and disposition when she talks about her work as policy associate for

CCA Statement on Trump Administration’s freeze of fuel efficiency standards

August 2, 2018

Photo by Kayla Velasquez on Unsplash LOS ANGELES – The Coalition for Clean Air (CCA), which helped create California’s clean car standards in 2002, released the following statement today from Chris Chavez,

Clean cars (and California) are under attack!

August 1, 2018

Source: Wikimedia Commons Saying California and the Federal government don’t see eye to eye right now is a bit of an understatement. On the one hand, California has pledged to

Will Uber and Lyft be part of climate change solution, or part of the problem?

July 26, 2018

(AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File) Richard Vogel AP By Rocky Rushing This opinion piece first appeared in the Sacramento Bee California’s greenhouse gas pollution is below 1990 levels four years before

I’ve Been Bit by the Love Bug – For My Bike

July 25, 2018

By Rocky Rushing “Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike. “ President John F. Kennedy I love my bike. It’s a late-blooming love and a bit surprising.