Advocates Sue Los Angeles for Failure to Reduce Toxic Pollution in Diesel Death Zone

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PRESS RELEASE Decades Long Battle Spotlights Port’s Violations of Law, Harm to Community   LOS ANGELES (September 16, 2020) – Charging the City of Los Angeles with failure to follow state environmental law, community and environmental groups including the Coalition for Clean Air filed suit in Superior Court to void the City Council’s recent certification of the Port of Los Angeles’ 2019 Supplemental Impact … Read more

How California Clean Air Day Compliments Other Efforts

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We love Earth Day! We love Bike to School Day. We think Rideshare Week Rocks. Heck, we even love National Chocolate Covered Pretzel Day. * We also love campaigns. We think every employer should be a part of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District’s cut the commute program in Bay Area. Every Mayor in California should … Read more

A message from our own Deputy Policy Director

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To Members of the CARB Board and staff, My name is Chris Chavez, I am West Long Beach residential representative to the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) AB 617 Community Steering Committee. I am also the Deputy Policy Director for Coalition for Clean Air, an air quality advocacy nonprofit that operates in the … Read more

Statement on August 27th Air Resources Board Actions by CCA’s Policy Director

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At a time when Californians’ lungs are under assault from smog, smoke, soot and respiratory infections, the Air Resources Board today did more to reduce air pollution than it had in over a decade. The Board unanimously approved 2 major rules to reduce emissions of toxic diesel exhaust: The truck omnibus rule, which will slash … Read more

ACTION ALERT: Urge your assemblymember to improve public health in schools and make electric vehicles more accessible.

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We expect the California Assembly to soon be voting on two of the most important air quality bills of the year. AB 841 will improve public health in California’s public schools, and both AB 841 and AB 326 will make electric vehicles more accessible for Californians. The bills now head to the Assembly for committee … Read more

Air Quality Monitoring helps put an end to dangerous fireworks in Maywood

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For the past few years, the Coalition for Clean Air has been working with Comité Pro Uno and Sonoma Technology, Inc. to develop a sophisticated analysis of air pollution in Maywood. Local residents are using air quality monitoring data to develop a community-specific, actionable emission reduction and mitigation plan. Through major holidays or ordinary days, … Read more

Dirty Diesel’s Days Are Numbered, Thanks to California

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On June 26, California’s Air Resources Board took a groundbreaking action that will go down in history as a turning point in protecting Californians from toxic diesel exhaust by putting zero-emission trucks on our roads. The Board adopted its Advanced Clean Trucks rule, which establishes the first-in-the-nation requirement that truck manufacturers sell an increasing percentage of … Read more

California Mandates Electric Trucks

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Photo of a Cummins-Aeos electric semi truck

Note: This post was originally published on California Current. The California Air Resources Board voted nearly unanimously June 25 to require that at least 100,000 trucks on California roads, three quarter ton and heavier, be electric by 2030 to reduce greenhouse gases and diesel pollution. Five years later, the number is to grow to 300,000 … Read more