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Deputy Managing Attorney

Warehouses bump up against homes in the Inland Empire.
June 24, 2024

California Reins in Its Smoggy Warehouse Problem

By Adrian Martinez  /  California Office

A new approach to mega warehouse pollution is showing early success in the fight against diesel pollution. Everyone should be talking about Indirect Source Rules.

Wide shot of the downtown Los Angeles skyline bathed in smog. View from Griffith Park.
May 7, 2024

Southern California Can Boil Water Without Boiling the Planet

By Adrian Martinez  /  California Office

Efficient, modern, and clean. Heat pumps are heading for the industrial and commercial sectors in the nation’s manufacturing hub.

A person uses a rod in a machine filled with yellow melted steel with sparks flying around.
April 11, 2024

From Ice Cream to Glass to Steel, California Needs to Think Big on Industrial Electrification

By Adrian Martinez & Evan Gillespie  /  California Office

It’s time for the largest manufacturing hub in the country to develop a blueprint for zero emissions. Legislation like AB 2083 can get us there.

Gavin Newsom speaks in a burned and smokey area.
March 12, 2024

California Plans to Waste $27 Billion Bankrolling a Polluters’ Paradise

By Adrian Martinez  /  California Office

With the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, California would be locked in to waste $27 billion in climate dollars on dirty fuels over the next decade. It’s up to Governor Newsom to fix it.

Michael S. Regan
December 7, 2023

EPA: Sign the Paperwork That Will Save Nearly 9,000 Lives

By Adrian Martinez  /  California Office

With the Stroke of a Pen, EPA Can Grant the Waivers for Critical California Regulations Shifting Us to Zero Emissions Everything

Gavin Newsom speaking in a burned and smokey area.
September 6, 2023

When Will Governor Newsom Fix Schwarzenegger’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard?

By Adrian Martinez  /  California Office

California is sinking the vast majority of its $4 billion clean transportation program into combustion fuels every year. Make it make sense.

sparks fly as a person welds inside of a large pipe
August 16, 2023

California Rolls Up Its Sleeves on Industrial Pollution

By Adrian Martinez & Evan Gillespie  /  California Office

How do we know if a sector is difficult to decarbonize if we haven’t tried?

A man looking at several shelves of bread at a grocery store
July 31, 2023

I’ll Take the Muffin, But Hold the Methane

By Adrian Martinez  /  California Office

Southern California’s air regulator adopts first in the nation rule to electrify the way companies cook, bake and brew our food and beverages.

A shipping yard at the Port of Long Beach, California. The port is the second busiest in the nation.
July 18, 2023

It’s Electrifying! Helping Ports Bring Us Goods, Not Smog

By Adrian Martinez  /  California Office

A firehose of funding from California regulators will help the Port of Long Beach step into an electric future.

A Mack LR Electric garbage truck operated by the New York City Department of Sanitation.
February 13, 2023

Let’s Not Waste California’s Opportunity to Be the Nation’s Leader in Electric Refuse Trucks

By Adrian Martinez  /  California Office

Electric garbage trucks will play a key role in California’s clean air and climate future.