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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.

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.