Governor Newsom has only one week left to make changes to California law by signing or vetoing bills. In the last few weeks, the Governor has been instrumental in passing a number of influential bills, including the 40-bill Legislative Climate Package, many of which the Coalition for Clean Air had worked to support. However, as … Read more
California has the worst air quality in the nation, and more than half of our state’s global warming pollution comes from cars, trucks and the fuel they burn. Lawmakers in Sacramento are now deciding how to spend the record budget surplus. Join us in calling for historic investments in clean air. Urgent: Tell your legislators … Read more
Transportation pollution is California’s largest driver of climate change and the number one reason our state has the MOST polluted air in the nation. Thankfully, Governor Newsom and state legislators have a historic opportunity to approve major investments in clean and equitable transportation programs in this year’s state budget. This is URGENT: We must ensure that our state lawmakers pass a budget that invests in clean cars, … Read more
Confronting systemic racism is an uncomfortable, awkward, and emotional experience. Yet, ignoring it is not an option. As Long Beach begins the hard but necessary work of addressing systemic racism, we cannot overlook one of its most insidious forms: environmental racism. This November, Long Beach voters can begin addressing environmental racism by voting for Measure … Read more
If you had the opportunity to protect California’s students, teachers, and school staff, as well as make it easier to charge electric vehicles and create new jobs in the process, would you take it? Governor Newsom is facing this very same decision as he considers AB 841 by Assembly Member Phil Ting. AB 841 passed … Read more
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
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
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