Los Angeles

STATEMENT: Coalition for Clean Air lauds appointment of Councilmember Nithya Raman to the South Coast Air Quality Management District Governing Board

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LA City Hall

Coalition for Clean Air (CCA) applauds Mayor Eric Garcetti for appointing Councilmember Nithya Raman to the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) Governing Board. CCA, along with a large coalition of community, environmental and environmental justice advocates, supported Councilmember Raman’s appointment. “Millions of Southern Californians, especially those in marginalized communities, breathe air that fails … Read more

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

LA’s Green New Deal a step forward, but more action is needed on goods movement

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, February 10, 2020 Contact: Chris Chavez 213-223-6868   Statement of Coalition for Clean Air Deputy Policy Director Chris Chavez   While we applaud Mayor Garcetti’s steps to make Los Angeles more sustainable, both LA’s Green New Deal and Executive Directive #25 have a glaring absence: a substantive commitment to clean up … Read more

The Los Angeles Summer of Smog

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California always makes headlines for its dedication to clean energy. Just last month Governor Brown signed SB 100, setting a target for emissions-free electricity generation by 2045. The state’s resilient commitment to climate science is heard around the world. But these stories mask a painful truth: the state had a historically bad summer of air … Read more

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

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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 training last week in Los Angeles.  When you are conveying the difficult message of climate change and what needs to be done about it, you must … Read more