LOS ANGELES, CA -- On Monday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti unveiled the updated “Sustainable City pLAn,” an ambitious roadmap establishing climate goals that will guide the city’s equitable environmental and economic future. The plan includes a commitment to power all of the city’s energy sectors -- its electricity, buildings, and transportation -- with carbon-free sources of energy by 2050.
New York, NY -- Today, ElectrifyNY, a new coalition of environmental justice, public transportation, public health, and good jobs advocates, launched its campaign for a clean, equitable electric transportation future for the state of New York.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Sierra Club released a newly updated electric vehicle (EV) guide at a time of increasing excitement around the expansion of the EV market in the United States. The evidence of growing user demand keeps mounting: 1 in 5 U.S.
Nationwide -- This April, the first annual Drive Electric Earth Day is being held, with over 150 events across the United States, as well as Canada, New Zealand, and the Dominican Republic, celebrating the significant and wide-ranging benefits of electric vehicles (EVs). EVs reduce emissions from transportation -- currently the leading sector contributing to carbon pollution -- in addition to improving public health and providing fuel and maintenance savings for consumers.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As policymakers, the auto industry and the public converge on the Washington Auto Show, public interest groups t
NEW YORK CITY, NY -- In a recently released newsletter, New York City’s Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) highlighted that the electric vehicles in its city fleet -- compared to vehicles fueled by oil and gas -- are providing dramatic cost savings for the City due to lower maintenance costs.
On January 18, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the “Clean Energy D.C. Omnibus Act of 2018,” a bold climate bill unanimously passed by the D.C. Council on December 18.
Harrisburg, PA -- Yesterday Pennsylvania, along with a bipartisan group of governors from eight other states and the Mayor of Washington DC, announced a plan to design a regional policy to limit climate disrupting carbon pollution from the transportation sector. The states are members of the Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI), which was formed in 2010 and recently completed a series of listening sessions across the region to hear directly from stakeholders and the public.
SACRAMENTO -- The California Air Resources Board (CARB) adopted a rule today that will phase in clean buses statewide, taking a giant step towards tackling health-threatening transportation pollution.
The Innovative Clean Transit (ICT) Rule will require that all public transit agencies in California replace old buses that emit pollution with zero-emission buses by 2040.
BOSTON -- Today Governor Baker announced the release of a long-awaited report on the Future of Transportation in the Commonwealth. This report lays out the administration’s comprehensive vision for improvements to the Massachusetts transportation system. Among other things, it attempts to address critically needed reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, resilience strategies in anticipation of increasingly severe impacts of climate change, and glaring inequities in the existing system.
WASHINGTON, DC -- Yesterday, POLITICO reported that the Trump Administration plans to pare down the safety assumptions underlying the proposed rollback of the Obama era clean car standards.
SANTA BARBARA, CA - The Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District (MTD) Board of Directors voted unanimously today to set a goal of 100% clean, quiet zero emission buses by 2030.
The District decided to join Los Angeles Metro - with one quarter of the state's buses - along with five other California transit agencies in setting a 2030 goal, 10 years earlier than the 2040 goal expected to be set this January by California’s Air Resources Board.