June 2, 2022
Washington, DC - Today, Ford and the United Auto Workers announced a $3.7 billion investment and the creation of more than 6,200 new union jobs to manufacture electric vehicles (EVs) in facilities across Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio.
May 20, 2022
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 waiver, allowing the state to set greenhouse gas standards more protective than federal standards and to adopt zero-emissions standards for light-duty cars.
May 19, 2022
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 buses off their routes and transition to a cleaner school bus fleet. Currently, 95 percent of the nation’s school buses are diesel. Diesel exhaust is a known carcinogen and can lead to or worsen respiratory illnesses like asthma.
May 16, 2022
Today is the last day of EPA’s comment period for a proposed rule that would reduce pollution from medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. The rule that would govern trucks and buses across the nation and impact millions of Americans. The rule would go into effect for model year 2027.
May 12, 2022
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 Oshkosh proposal for 165,000 gas-powered delivery trucks. The appeal demands that the USPS release more than 2,000 pages of records being withheld by the agency.
May 11, 2022
NEW YORK, NY– Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), CALSTART, NRDC, the Sierra Club and South Bronx Unite and WE ACT today
May 5, 2022
SANTA FE, NM - Today, the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board and the City of Albuquerque - Bernalillo County Air Quality Control Board unanimously voted to adopt clean cars rules after public hearings on May 4 and 5. Adoption of the rules follows a robust stakeholder engagement process over the past year.
April 29, 2022
HARTFORD, CT - Today, days after its Senate passage, the Connecticut House passed legislation that would advance regulations for clean air and clean trucks, which will help to slash climate-disrupting emissions from one of Connecticut's most polluting sectors–transportation– and clean up air pollution in communities across the state.
April 27, 2022
Today, Earthjustice, CleanAirNow KC, the Sierra Club, and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of California challenging the US Postal Service’s decision to replace the vast majority of its delivery fleet with polluting and fuel-guzzling combustion mail trucks.
April 1, 2022
NATIONWIDE—Throughout the month of April, consumers across the country will have the opportunity to experience clean electric vehicles (EVs) at Drive Electric Earth Day events. The more than 180 in-person and online events in 39 states, plus Canada and New Zealand, will feature EV test drives, showcases, informative workshops, and other fun activities that highlight the environmental, performance, and cost-saving benefits of EVs. Details on events can be found at DriveElectricEarthDay.org.