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Deputy Managing Attorney

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.

The United States Postal Service Next Generation Delivery Vehicle, shown in this concept image, can be built with either a gasoline or electric drivetrain.
December 20, 2022

You’ve Got Mail — and Clean Air

By Adrian Martinez  /  California Office

Following public pressure, USPS and the Biden administration are taking a big step to deliver clean air benefits in every neighborhood in the country.

Kids play soccer near the Phillips 66 refinery in Wilmington, Calif.
September 8, 2022

How Environmental Justice Advocates Dismantled the Oil Industry’s Prized Pollution “Reduction” Program In Los Angeles

By Oscar Espino-Padron & Adrian Martinez  /  California Office & Community Partnerships Program

A disaster of an experiment with pollution trading is coming to an end.

El vehículo de próxima generación del Servicio Postal de los Estados Unidos, que se muestra en este prototipo, se puede construir con un tren motriz de gasolina o eléctrico
February 1, 2022

El Aire Limpio Debe Llegar con el Correo a Su Casa

By Adrian Martinez  /  California Office

Los camiones del servicio postal pueden convertirse en el medio de transporte eléctrico favorito de los Estados Unidos, siempre y cuando la administración Biden actúe con audacia.

A man charges an electric car at home before a family trip in Washington state.
August 26, 2020

While Wildfires Blaze, California Is Making Two Important Decisions to Get Us off Fossil Fuels

By Adrian Martinez  /  California Office

It’s time for environmental policies that fit the scale of the problem.

Proterra is one of several companies manufacturing electric buses in California.
December 13, 2018

Buses Are the Electric Vehicle Everyone Should Be Talking About. Here’s Why.

By Adrian Martinez  /  California Office

California could spark a national trend with a visionary new electric bus rule that will transform public transit.

The first zero-emissions electric bus built in Lancaster, Antelope Valley, California, on July 13, 2017, near a BYD factory where thousands of workers build such buses.
September 28, 2018

Air Resources Board Hearing Brings California One Step Closer to Zero-Emissions Bus Fleets

By Adrian Martinez  /  California Office

The California Air Resources Board just held a public hearing in Sacramento to consider its proposed Innovative Clean Transit regulation.

Workers assemble an electric bus at BYD's California facility.
September 3, 2018

Electric Bus Vision in the Deep Trump Abyss

By Adrian Martinez  /  California Office

California could soon make polluting combustion-engine buses a thing of the past.

A car is built on the assembly line
May 31, 2018

California Is Getting off Gas and Diesel Sooner Than You Think

By Adrian Martinez  /  California Office

California just voted to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into charging equipment for electric cars, trucks, and buses in the largest single investment in charging infrastructure in the United States.