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
BREAKING NEWS Today’s budget deal out of Sacramento is great news for California breathers, with funding for two major air quality programs: smog checks for heavy-duty trucks and community air protection programs. We pushed hard to fund these programs, and we want to thank each of you who took action by contacting the Governor … Read more
We’ve often fought on the opposite side of issues from the California Department of Transportation. The legacy of smog in California is due in large part to the pursuit of an ever-expanding freeway system designed around the single passenger vehicle, with CalTrans as the agency charged with making that happen. But over the past several … Read more
[message_box text_color=”light”] Action Alert Governor Newsom’s May budget revise cuts funding from and delays implementation of the smog check program for heavy-duty trucks established by SB 210. Email Governor Gavin Newsom, your state Senator, and your state Assemblymember and urge them to adopt a trailer bill to SB 210 that imposes a July 1, 2022 … Read more
COVID-19’s public health threat is clear. In just four months, over 104,000 Americans have died during the pandemic. The virus’s death toll already exceeds the United States’ combined military fatalities during the Korean, Vietnam, Gulf, Afghan, and Iraq Wars – a period that stretches roughly 40 years. These numbers are sobering and tragic, but COVID-19’s … Read more
Powerful industries have been fighting clean California air for years, and some of the state’s biggest polluters are lobbying Governor Newsom’s administration to delay enforcement or roll back safeguards against pollution and climate change. And while the administration has made clear that they aren’t pursuing a broad rollback, they have committed to reviewing requests to … Read more
As someone who grew up in Long Beach and returned as an adult, I know air pollution all too well. That is why I’m proud to work for the Coalition for Clean Air. It is also why I adamantly oppose EPA Administrator Wheeler’s proposed policy of inaction on particulate matter (PM). My comments on behalf … Read more
As agencies around the state and country work furiously to respond and adapt to the pandemic, the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) should respond to this major public health crisis by taking action to fight a related one: air pollution. The evidence is increasingly clear1)See this study from Havard and this study from … Read more