BOSTON, MA -- Today, the Sierra Club, Conservation Law Foundation (CLF), Green Energy Consumers Alliance and Acadia Center released the following statement after the Massachusetts House passed the GreenWorks bill (H. 3987) on July 24 with an amendment to strengthen the MOR-EV program, a popular rebate program for drivers who purchase or lease electric vehicles.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, it was reported that California and four major automakers - Ford, BMW, Volkswagen, and Honda - entered into an agreement that commits manufacturers to increased fuel efficiency for their vehicles sold nationwide in the face of the Trump administration’s reckless clean car standards rollback.
TALLAHASSEE, FL -- Today, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) released its draft plan for how the state proposes to spend $166 million from the national Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Trust. Florida is the last state to release a draft plan for its settlement money, while other states have already invested monies into existing clean transportation initiatives.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, two subcommittees of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing on the Trump Administration’s planned rollback of the fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions, known as the Clean Car Standards. The hearing was peppered with hard-hitting questions about the wide-spread and devastating role the proposed rollback will have on public health, the environment, consumers, and the auto industry itself.
Nationwide -- Throughout the month of April, the first ever annual Drive Electric Earth Day was held, with 188 events taking part across the United States, as well as Canada, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and New Zealand.
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.