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As the nation’s largest manufacturing hub, California should lead in establishing a zero-emissions manufacturing sector before the Trump administration drags us into the pits of fossil fuel dependency.

The Bureau of Land Management has never analyzed the cumulative harms of its oil and gas well approvals on nearby communities and the environment in California’s San Joaquin Valley.

Regulators are failing to protect children from repeat exposure to the most dangerous pesticides

The undersigned organizations write in support of AB 914 (Garcia, R), which will equip the state of California with critical regulatory tools to clean up air pollution. This legislation affirms the California Air Resources Board’s authority to regulate “indirect sources” that attract activity from polluting vehicles and equipment. Californians breathe some of the dirtiest air in the country and ports, warehouses, and other freight hubs — with the polluting diesel trucks and equipment that serve them — are major culprits. This bill provides a crucial pathway to slash this dangerous pollution.

We’re stepping in to defend a trio of life-saving rules from a flurry of opportunistic lawsuits

Candice Youngblood, Attorney, California Office, Earthjustice: “Our locally elected officials, they serve us, so you can go to their offices and talk to them about the issues that you’re concerned about and ensure that the decisions that they are making are serving our interests and the world that we’re trying to create.”

While the Trump administration tries to drag us back to darker and dirtier days, California can forge ahead.

We’re creating a zero-emissions reality from coast to coast.

A coalition of organizations across California are opposing SB 34, a state bill that would tie the hands of local air regulators in Southern California from addressing some of the largest sources of air pollution in the region.

Bill affirms the California Air Resources Board’s authority to regulate pollution magnets

Fernando Gaytan, Attorney, California Office: “It’s all the more reason why we really need our local air regulators… to take more seriously what we need to do locally to address the public health crisis that port pollution causes.”

Yasmine Agelidis, Attorney, Right to Zero, Earthjustice: “The wheels are turning. And to take away funding now is to really put a wrench in a lot of that work.”

People’s Collective for Environmental Justice, Sierra Club, and Industrious Labs move to intervene as defendants in Rinnai America Corp., et al., v. South Coast Air Quality Management District

Gas industry lawsuit seeks to intimidate Southern California’s air regulator from pursuing vital rules to replace gas-powered equipment with zero-emissions technology

This case challenges the Monterey County Agricultural Commissioner’s decision to issue six permits in 2023 that authorized 12 applications of 1,3-D and chloropicrin in a single growing season within one mile of three local schools — Ohlone Elementary, Pajaro Middle, and Hall District Elementary.

Long Beach becomes the second city in California to electrify 100% of its garbage truck fleet

Coalition condemns Bureau of Land Management’s decision to continue granting new oil and gas wells in the heavily-polluted San Joaquin Valley

This case challenges the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) decision to continue approving drilling permits for new oil and gas wells on public land in the San Joaquin Valley, California, without accounting for the cumulative impacts of BLM’s expansion of oil and gas drilling, and without providing for meaningful input from the communities most impacted by its permitting decisions.