Larisa Mănescu is the associate director of federal communications, primarily supporting the Sierra Club's Clean Transportation for All campaign. She lives in Baltimore, MD. She was previously a deputy press secretary, and before that, the communications coordinator for the Texas chapter of the Sierra Club.
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WASHINGTON, DC - Today, after over a year of public pressure over the Postal Service’s decision to only make 10 percent of its new truck fleet electric, the agency announced it would commit to at…
Groups applaud first stand-alone U.S. legislation to hold global shipping industry accountable for climate and air pollution at sea and in U.S. ports WASHINGTON, DC – Following the significant…
Washington, DC - Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration proposed a rule that will require state Departments of Transportation and Metropolitan Planning…
Ahead of Toyota’s Annual General Meeting, organizations call for NHTSA and EPA to investigate Hino, a subsidiary of Toyota, for emissions cheating in the US after cheating was found in Japanese…
Washington, DC - Today, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Energy proposed nationwide guidelines for electric vehicle (EV) charging stations that will be funded by the Bipartisan…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the nation’s leading environmental organizations moved to intervene to defend the Biden administration’s rule, finalized in March, that reinstated California’s Clean Air Act…
FALLS CHURCH, VA - Today, at Meridian High School, the Biden-Harris administration will announce the Clean School Bus Program, which offers funding for school districts to move dirty diesel…
WASHINGTON, DC – Today is the last day of EPA’s comment period for a proposed rule that would reduce pollution from medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. This rule would govern trucks and buses…
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Sierra Club and Elders Climate Action filed an administrative appeal to challenge the Postal Service’s rejection of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to see the…
NEW YORK, NY– Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), CALSTART, NRDC, the Sierra Club and South Bronx Unite and WE ACT today filed a petition with the New York Public Service Commission asking…