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California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks onstage during the NYT Climate Forward 2025 at The Times Center on September 24, 2025 in New York City.  (Yana Paskova / Getty Images for NYT)
From the Experts October 6, 2025

A New Law Can Cut Expenses that Shouldn’t Be in Californians’ Utility Bills

It’s up to Governor Newsom to sign AB 1167 into law and give Californians the protections other states are already enjoying

NY Clean Deliveries Act rally with ElectrifyNY Coalition on October 1, 2025. (Michelle Stockwell / Earthjustice)
Press Release October 1, 2025

NY Lawmakers and Advocates Call for State Action on E-commerce Mega-warehouse Pollution

As the federal government guts air quality protections, NY must step up to tackle pollution from diesel trucks and protect public health by passing the Clean Deliveries Act

The Maryland State House in Annapolis, MD. (Spartana Photography)
Article September 30, 2025

How Maryland is Taking Climate Action into Its Own Hands — While Cutting Energy Bills

The state’s new law shows that clean energy measures are gaining ground state-by-state, despite Trump and the fossil fuel industry’s nefarious efforts to prop up gas.

American athlete Carl Lewis won the 100m gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympic Games in August 1984 in Los Angeles, California. (PERRIN / TARDY / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
From the Experts September 23, 2025

LA Should Go for the Gold When It Comes to Electric Transit Buses

With the LA 2028 Olympics looming, LA Metro should keep pace with Olympic cities.

Lauren Sanchez (seated, on right) will be the new chair of the California Air Resources Board. (State of California)
Press Release September 15, 2025

California Announces New Chair of the California Air Resources Board

With Lauren Sanchez at the helm, the agency must retake the reins and lead on new zero-emissions regulations once again

Heat pumps power our everyday lives. (Lily Padula for Earthjustice)
From the Experts August 28, 2025

How an Air Agency Is Going to Zero for Homes

A new program to help Southern Californians adopt heat pumps has arrived.

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are greeted by California Governor Gavin Newsom upon arrival at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California, on January 24, 2025, to visit the region devastated by the Palisades and Eaton fires. (Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images)
From the Experts August 19, 2025

California Can’t Afford to Blink in the Showdown over Zero-Emissions

While Trump wreaks havoc, California can resist the big chill on zero-emissions.

Heat pumps power our everyday lives. (Lily Padula for Earthjustice)
From the Experts August 13, 2025

The Year-Round Comfort Upgrade that Will Keep Cities Leading on Climate

Why the big swap of air conditioners for heat pumps is a great idea.

Although air quality has improved over the years in Los Angeles, Calif., bad air days still blanket the city and surrounding region with smog.
(Cate Frost / Shutterstock)
From the Experts August 7, 2025

Trump Wants to Make America Smoggy Again. California Legislators Are About to Make It Worse

We know where the Trump administration stands on clean air protections, but why are state legislators in California pushing a pro-pollution bill like SB 34 forward?

A Circle Line ferry sails past the Williamsburg Bridge as the Manhattan skyline is shrouded in smoke from Canada wildfires on June 6, 2023 in New York City. New York City is bathed in a blanket of unhealthy air as smoke from Canadian wildfires seeps across much of the eastern U.S. and Great Lakes areas. (NDZ/STAR MAX/IPx via AP)
Press Release August 5, 2025

Bad Air Quality Alert Issued in NY due to Wildfires Caused by Climate Change

New York Senators passed legislation to aid in cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the Assembly rejected action

Progress Rail’s EMD Joule Battery Electric Locomotive. (Progress Rail)
Press Release July 29, 2025

Legislation Reintroduced to Transform the United States’ Rail Network

All Aboard Act dedicates $200 billion over five years to build transportation system of the future

A sheriff's deputy pauses while combing through the banks of the Guadalupe River after a flash flood swept through the area in July 2025. (Julio Cortez / AP)
Article July 28, 2025

Climate Change Is Driving Extreme Rainfall and Flooding

Here’s what Earthjustice is doing about it.

document July 25, 2025

Letter to CARB on Zero-Emissions Policies

A coalition letter to the California Air Resources Board on its listening sessions and recommendations for zero-emissions transportation policies moving forward in California (the Zero-Emission Vehicles Forward Public Dialogue Sessions).

Heat pumps can warm and cool our spaces, heat our water, and dry clothes. (Lily Padula for Earthjustice)
Press Release: Victory July 24, 2025

U.S. Court Allows New York State Building Electrification to Begin

Court upholds New York’s all-electric new buildings law, which saves New Yorkers money and cuts climate pollution

document July 23, 2025

NYS Court Decision: All Electric Buildings (July 2025)

Court determines New York has the power to require new buildings to use clean electrical appliances instead of allowing dirty fossil fuel combustion in people’s homes and other new buildings.

Smog covers the city of Los Angeles.
(Photo courtesy of Ben Amstutz)
Press Release: Victory July 21, 2025

Court Upholds Landmark Rule to Advance Zero-Emissions Water Heaters & Boilers

Southern California standard is nation’s first to advance zero-emissions industrial boilers, cutting smog-forming pollution by a staggering 5.6 tons per day

document July 18, 2025

Court Decision on Southern California Industrial Boiler Rule 1146.2

The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California upheld the nation’s first rule to electrify industrial boilers and water heaters.

(Indigo Skies Photography)
From the Experts July 11, 2025

Bonneville Power Administration’s Energy Market Choice Will Cause Widespread Harm Across the Northwest

Nonprofit groups are suing to force a review of the decision by BPA that would cause energy bills to rise and reduce access to clean energy across a broad region