Today, more than 60 labor unions, environmental groups, and faith, consumer, health, and economic justice organizations sent a letter to Senate Democrats urging them to support the inclusion of a bonus tax credit for consumer electric vehicles manufactured in factories where workers are represented by a union, a provision included in the Build Back Better Act.
TAKOKA, MD -- Today, Energy Secretary Granholm and Transportation Secretary Buttigieg signed an agreement authorizing their offices to combine resources to expand electric vehicle charging infrastructure for communities across the country, following yesterday’s announcement of the Biden administration’s
Richmond, VA - Today, Governor Ralph Northam signed Virginia onto the Multi-State Medium- and Heavy-Duty Zero Emission Vehicle Memorandum of Understanding, which has been signed by 15 states and Washington DC, to support vehicle electrification and eliminate toxic air pollution. Under the MOU, Virginia joins a multi-state commitment for 30 percent of new truck and bus sales to be zero-emission by 2030 and 100 percent zero-emission by 2050.
WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, President Biden announced an executive order to greatly reduce the federal government’s climate pollution. This order serves as a critical first step to cutting pollution from the government’s own vehicles, buildings, electricity usage, and construction materials while supporting family-sustaining manufacturing jobs.
WASHINGTON, DC – This week, Toyota committed to sell only electric vehicles by 2035 in Europe, aligning the automaker with an EU pledge adopted in July. Yet the automaker still doesn’t manufacture and sell any battery electric vehicles in the US, the automaker’s biggest market.
Department of Ecology makes Zero Emission Vehicle Program and Advanced Clean Trucks Rule official, creating clean trucks coast with OR and CA
CARSON CITY, NV – The Nevada Public Utilities Commission today authorized NV Energy to invest $100 million over the next three years in fueling infrastructure for electric cars and trucks. The commission approved a plan by NV Energy to increase the availability of public electric vehicle charging stations along major travel corridors and at key destinations, while supporting transit agencies, school districts, local governments, and businesses to deploy electric vehicles in their fleets.
SALEM, Ore. — School buses, package delivery vans, waste haulers, and semi-trucks gliding along roadways and through neighborhoods -- fueled by renewable electricity-- with no clattering diesel engines or clouds of harmful exhaust. This future is more in focus than ever for Oregon, with adoption of new rules today.
DETROIT, MI - Today, President Biden will visit a General Motors EV factory in Michigan to discuss the opportunity for electric vehicle manufacturing investments to reduce climate emissions in the transportation sector and improve air quality in communities, as well as the significance of supporting unionized workers as we shift to a clean energy economy.
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it won’t revisit a Trump administration rule on emissions standards for new airplanes, which doesn’t actually reduce greenhouse gas pollution.
Congress Must Pass Build Back Better Act to Bolster Clean Transportation Investments & Deliver on Climate
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Biden will sign the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, known as the bipartisan infrastructure bill, which will include billions in funding for public transit, passenger rail, electric vehicle charging, electric school buses, and cleaning up dirty ports, important priorities for decarbonizing the nation’s most polluting sector.
Sunrise Movement, Sierra Club, Greenpeace USA, League of Conservation Voters, Blue-Green Alliance, Center for American Progress, Center for Biological Diversity, Elders Climate Action, Friends of the Earth, and 350.org call for Rivian to meet the moment for climate action and labor justice