Revolutionizing our transportation systems is a crucial piece of Sierra Club's work to ensure we all can live in healthy communities, move around safely, and build a future powered by renewable energy.
We all want to breathe clean air and protect our families from toxic pollution and climate change. Unfortunately, transportation is currently our nation's largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and a major source of air pollution. To build a livable future, we must shift away from fossil fuel-powered vehicles and towards clean, renewable transportation.
Right now, Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress want to make it harder to drive clean cars, which will increase how much money you spend at the pump. We can stop them, but we need your help to protect access to public transportation, electric vehicles, and other clean transportation options.
Over the lifetime of the vehicle, a gas car puts out 4.5x more carbon pollution and infinitely more toxic tailpipe air pollution than an electric car.
We all want to breathe clean air and protect our families from toxic pollution and climate change. Unfortunately, transportation is currently our nation's largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and a major source of air pollution. To build a livable future, we must shift away from combustion vehicles and towards clean transportation.
In a landmark legal win for clean transportation, a federal court has permanently barred the Trump administration from freezing funds for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program – that is, a $5 billion federal initiative to build reliable, high-speed electric vehicle charging stations along America's highways!
The ruling means all 50 states, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico now have the legal certainty they need to move forward building a nationwide charging network, free from unlawful interference. Sierra Club and partners brought this case on behalf of members who were directly harmed by the freeze.
This is what people power looks like: Sierra Club members standing up to protect clean transportation investment, cleaner air, and better access to affordable electric vehicle driving for everyone.
WASHINGTON STATE – Yesterday, United States District Court Judge Tana Lin for the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Washington issued a preliminary injunction lifting the Trump administration’s unlawful freeze of federal funding for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program. NEVI is a transformative $5 billion initiative to build reliable and convenient fast charging stations for electric vehicles along major highways nationwide.
Washington, DC – Today, Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee released text of their part of Donald Trump’s so-called “One Big, Beautiful” reconciliation bill in the Senate.
Sacramento, CA – Today, Governor Newsom issued an executive order moving forward California’s clean transportation progress in the face of federal attacks.
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Sierra Club and Public Citizen called on Toyota Motor Company’s Board Chair Akio Toyoda to step down ahead of the company’s annual general meeting.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Trump administration’s Department of Transportation Administrator Sean Duffy published a final rule that paves the way for the administration to roll back the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, commonly known as fuel economy standards.
Washington, DC – Last night, Republicans on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works released text of their section of Donald Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill” in the Senate.
BEAUMONT, Calif. — In the most recent in a series of legal victories against unchecked warehouse development in the Inland Empire, the Sierra Club secured a comprehensive settlement Tuesday requiring rigorous environmental protections for the proposed Beaumont Pointe warehouse and distribution center. The massive, 5 million-square-foot facility will be built in the Badlands near Beaumont.
NATIONWIDE – Today, governors from 11 states – California, Colorado, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Washington – announced they are joining together in a new Affordable Clean Car Coalition which will help states tackle vehicle pollution and lower barriers for consumers to more affordably own, drive, charge, and maintain clean cars.
WASHINGTON STATE – Today, a coalition of environmental, consumer, and community organizations joined a challenge to the Trump administration’s unlawful and indefinite freeze of billions in federal funding for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program, a transformative, $5 billion initiative to build electric vehicle charging stations every 50 miles on major corridors across all 50 states.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In an unprecedented move, the Senate today passed Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions introduced by Senate Republicans to repeal three California clean vehicle programs: Advanced Clean Cars II, Advanced Clean Trucks, and Heavy-Duty low-NOx Omnibus.