OpEd: What the 2024 election means for California’s air and climate
California will need to be ready to defend our people’s rights to clean air and water.
Climate Equity
Despite budget cuts, some clean air wins
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
Governer Newsom signs bill to inject $170+ million a year into clean transportation over the next decade
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?
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
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!
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
California’s Legislature can bring us Cleaner Transportation this Year by Passing these Bills
This is the time of year when the California Legislature puts bills through their initial policy committee hearings, and CCA is actively supporting a number of measures to reduce the emissions that cause air pollution and global warming. Since 80% of California’s air pollution, and 50% of its greenhouse pollution, come from transportation, most of … Read more
The 2023 state budget: climate dollars at risk!
It’s that time again – the beginning of state budget season. But unlike past years, the 2023-2024 budget is in a far more precarious situation. The last two budgets enjoyed massive surpluses and allocated billions of new dollars for clean transportation and climate programs. This year, however, California is facing a significant budget deficit – … Read more