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April 21, 2022

Today, the EPA released a draft technical white paper on measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from gas-fired power plants.

April 11, 2022

Yesterday, on the eve of the first day of a three-day Environmental Protection Agency hearing on the agency’s proposed regulation to clean up pollution from heavy-duty vehicles, 19 organizations sent a letter to the Truck & Engine Manufacturers Association and its members to stop lobbying against stronger federal and state regulations on truck pollution and to establish a 2035 zero-emission truck target for its member organizations.

April 1, 2022

Today, Public Citizen and the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments joined Sierra Club and others and announced their intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failure to appropriately classify Bexar County and San Antonio as a moderate ozone nonattainment area, thereby requiring reductions in harmful nitrogen oxide and volatile organic compounds under the the Clean Air Act.

March 30, 2022

VIRTUAL – Today, elected officials, community activists, and environmental and transportation advocates gathered for a virtual panel to discuss the massive opportunity and responsibility the Environmental Protection Agency has this year to strengthen its proposed regulation to clean up pollution from heavy-duty vehicles.

March 30, 2022

Washington, DC – Earlier this week, the EPA proposed removing the emergency affirmative defense provisions from operating permit regulations in Title V of the Clean Air Act (CAA).

11 de marzo de 2022

La Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA) propuso hoy la regla de Contaminación del Aire Interestatal, la cual protegerá al público contra la peligrosa polución de las plantas térmicas de carbón que el viento traslada de un estado a otro, beneficiando a 26 de ellos.

March 9, 2022

CALIFORNIA - Today, President Biden’s EPA restored a key tool to address pollution from the transportation sector, the nation’s leading source of climate-disrupting pollution.  

March 9, 2022

MINNESOTA - Today, President Biden’s EPA restored a key tool to address pollution from the transportation sector, the nation’s leading source of climate-disrupting pollution.  

March 9, 2022

WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the EPA finalized its rule reinstating California’s Clean Air Act waiver allowing it to set greenhouse gas standards more protective than federal standards and to adopt zero-emissions standards for light-duty vehicles, reversing an illegal and unprecedented waiver revocation by the previous administration that threatened our climate and the well-being of communities around the country. 

7 de marzo de 2022

La Agencia Federal de Protección Ambiental (EPA) anunció una propuesta para reducir las emisiones de camiones pesados, una fuente significativa de contaminación del aire que impacta desproporcionadamente a latinos y otras comunidades de color.

March 7, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposal for curbing emissions from heavy duty trucks, a significant source of dangerous air pollution nationwide which disproportionately impacts communities of color.

March 2, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, several environmental organizations moved to intervene to defend the Biden administration’s new clean car standards.