Advocacy

Despite budget cuts, some clean air wins

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The 2024-2025 State Budget agreement represents a major setback for California’s climate and clean air commitments. For the second straight year, California will delay and cut hundreds of millions of dollars in climate investments. These cuts will impact California’s efforts to deploy clean vehicles, expand transit as well as build biking and pedestrian infrastructure. Further, … Read more

Dead End Road: California Agencies Continue to Invest in Highway Expansions

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Dead End road sign barrier against a background of a dark and ominous sky

California prides itself on being the land of opportunity. It is a place that welcomes all and inspires with its unique diversity of life, nature, and cultures. Yet over the past seventy years, our state has spent billions of funding on highway expansion projects that increase poverty, reduce the quality of life, separate communities, destroy … Read more

CCA’s Policy Forecast for the Coming Year

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Updates From the Capitol: Improving California’s Key Transportation Programs This year has been tough for clean transportation in California. With the State making budget cuts and a powerful highway lobby pushing back, the Coalition for Clean Air and our allies have had our work cut out for us. CCA is one of the leaders of … Read more

Governer Newsom signs bill to inject $170+ million a year into clean transportation over the next decade

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Governor Newsom signed AB 126 which reauthorizes $173 million per year in funding for equitable clean transportation programs over the next 10 years, 50% of which will go to underserved communities. Sacramento, CA — Clean air and environmental justice advocates are celebrating Governor  Newsom signing AB 126 into law. AB 126 reauthorizes critical funding for … Read more

Legislative Wrap-Up: What does it all mean for Climate and Air Quality?

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With the arrival of cooler weather, the California Legislature has wrapped up for the year and vacated the Capitol. This session has been a tough one for many climate and clean air priorities as many bills failed to gather enough support to pass the floor vote. At the same time, there have been several hard-fought … Read more

Updates from the Capitol

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As the weather turns warm and sunny, the Legislative Session is in full swing, working on a yearly process that pushes thousands of bills through the legislative process. Most recently, the Assembly and Senate held a number of floor sessions, where members voted on every bill before them on whether it should pass to the … Read more

Meet Our 2023 California Air Quality Awards Honorees!

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Each year the Coalition for Clean Air presents our highest honors to California’s leading policy-makers, business leaders and advocates at the Air Quality Awards. This event is an opportunity for all of us to honor the incredible work that’s been done to improve air quality, connect with one another and look towards the future. Together, … Read more