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2023: An Electrifying Year for Earthjustice

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Yasmine Agelidis, Senior Attorney. (Hannah Benet for Earthjustice)

With your support, this year, we made game-changing progress to electrify everything on wheels, from cars and trucks to buses and trains, and more. And we’re super-charging the shift to a zero-emissions building sector, too.

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Thanks to Earthjustice and our partners, California is leading the nation in realizing its zero-emissions future. But states like Colorado, New York, and others are coming in strong, too.

Hannah Benet for Earthjustice

With your support,
this year, we made game-changing progress to electrify everything on wheels, from cars and trucks to buses and trains, and more. And we’re super-charging the shift to a zero-emissions building sector, too.

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Hannah Bennet for Earthjustice

Taylor Thomas of East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, in an electric truck outside of a California Air Resources Board public hearing to consider proposed Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation on Oct. 27, 2022 in Sacramento California.

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Hannah Benet for Earthjustice

Hannah Benet for Earthjustice

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Thanks to Earthjustice and our partners, California is leading the nation in realizing its zero-emissions future. But states like Colorado, New York, and others are coming in strong, too.

Together, we are sparking a zero-emissions revolution. And as we clean up transportation and other sectors, we are also protecting public health, advancing environmental justice, and curbing a major driver of climate change

The explosive growth of e-commerce is inundating California communities near ports and warehouse complexes with harmful air pollution.

But we’re on the case.

Our Progress

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We are replacing dirty diesel buses with electric school buses all over the country, making the air cleaner for schoolkids and for our neighborhoods.

Our Impact

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New York became the first state to pass a law ending fossil fuels in new construction, marking the culmination of two years of people-powered climate organizing.

Our Allies

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We made groundbreaking progress to electrify the industrial sector and curb air pollution from commercial ovens — the same ones that produce muffins, chips, nuts, coffee, and other foods.

Our Goal

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We made groundbreaking progress to electrify the industrial sector and curb air pollution from commercial ovens — the same ones that produce muffins, chips, nuts, coffee, and other foods.

Our Goal

And you can help us accomplish so much more.

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

Get the EPA to issue waivers for life-saving Clean Air Act regulations in California

Map of e-commerce warehouses by potential environmental justice area in NYC, 2022.

Stop the clustering of mega-warehouses in low-income communities of color in New York

Fix California’s dated Low Carbon Fuel Standard — and make it a climate solution

Schwarzenegger, wearing a suit, fills up a car.

Pass the HEAT Act in New York to fight climate change and protect New Yorkers from high electricity bills

Gray and yellowish smoke limits visibility in photo.

A long line of wind turbines on a tree covered mountain ridge. In this aerial view, turbines stand in a row along the top of Backbone Mountain on August 22, 2022 in Oakland, Maryland. The 70-megawatt wind farm runs along eight miles of the mountain ridge and consists of 28 Clipper 2.5 MW Liberty Turbines, each one 415-feet tall.

Wield landmark federal legislation to advance zero-emissions building and transportation sectors

Illustration of freight trucks spewing exhaust and carrying asthma inhalers.

Defend California’s nation-leading standards for truck emissions

Electrify homes in Maryland — and do so equitably

A child plays in the kitchen, cooking on an electric induction stove.

Support the buildout of a robust transmission system and power grid to propel the clean energy transformation

Transmission lines and utility poles are silhouetted at sunset against a darkening sky.

2023: An Electrifying Year for Earthjustice

With your support,
this year, we made game-changing progress to electrify everything on wheels, from cars and trucks to buses and trains, and more. And we’re super-charging the shift to a zero-emissions building sector, too.

Thanks to Earthjustice and our partners, California is leading the nation in realizing its zero-emissions future. But states like Colorado, New York, and others are coming in strong, too.

Together, we are sparking a zero-emissions revolution. And as we clean up transportation and other sectors, we are also protecting public health, advancing environmental justice, and curbing a major driver of climate change

The explosive growth of e-commerce is inundating California communities near ports and warehouse complexes with harmful air pollution.

But we’re on the case.

We are replacing dirty diesel buses with electric school buses all over the country, making the air cleaner for schoolkids and for our neighborhoods.

New York became the first state to pass a law ending fossil fuels in new construction, marking the culmination of two years of people-powered climate organizing.

We made groundbreaking progress to electrify the industrial sector and curb air pollution from commercial ovens — the same ones that produce muffins, chips, nuts, coffee, and other foods.

We made groundbreaking progress to electrify the industrial sector and curb air pollution from commercial ovens — the same ones that produce muffins, chips, nuts, coffee, and other foods.

And you can help us accomplish so much more.

Get the EPA to issue waivers for life-saving Clean Air Act regulations in California

Stop the clustering of mega-warehouses in low-income communities of color in New York

Fix California’s dated Low Carbon Fuel Standard — and make it a climate solution

Pass the HEAT Act in New York to fight climate change and protect New Yorkers from high electricity bills

Wield landmark federal legislation to advance zero-emissions building and transportation sectors

Defend California’s nation-leading standards for truck emissions

Electrify homes in Maryland — and do so equitably

Support the buildout of a robust transmission system and power grid to propel the clean energy transformation

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2023: An Electrifying Year for Earthjustice

With your support,this year, we made game-changing progress to electrify everything on wheels, from cars and trucks to buses and trains, and more. And we’re super-charging the shift to a zero-emissions building sector, too.

Thanks to Earthjustice and our partners, California is leading the nation in realizing its zero-emissions future. But states like Colorado, New York, and others are coming in strong, too.

Together, we are sparking a zero-emissions revolution. And as we clean up transportation and other sectors, we are also protecting public health, advancing environmental justice, and curbing a major driver of climate change

The explosive growth of e-commerce is inundating California communities near ports and warehouse complexes with harmful air pollution.

But we’re on the case.

We are replacing dirty diesel buses with electric school buses all over the country, making the air cleaner for schoolkids and for our neighborhoods.

New York became the first state to pass a law ending fossil fuels in new construction, marking the culmination of two years of people-powered climate organizing.

We made groundbreaking progress to electrify the industrial sector and curb air pollution from commercial ovens — the same ones that produce muffins, chips, nuts, coffee, and other foods.

We made groundbreaking progress to electrify the industrial sector and curb air pollution from commercial ovens — the same ones that produce muffins, chips, nuts, coffee, and other foods.

And you can help us accomplish so much more.

About

Get Involved

Member Center

The Law Makes Change

With your support,
this year, we made game-changing progress to electrify everything on wheels, from cars and trucks to buses and trains, and more. And we’re super-charging the shift to a zero-emissions building sector, too.