Category: CLEAN AIR

The Legislature’s unfinished business: the 2021 end of session

California’s Legislature returns to the Capitol on August 16 to begin the four-week home stretch of this year’s session, with the fates of hundreds of bills to be decided. Here are some of the bills we’re working on: RELIEF FROM THOSE NOISY, SMELLY LEAF BLOWERS AND LAWN MOWERS Shockingly, the smog-forming emissions from small off-road […]

Can California Make Transportation Climate-Friendly? This New Plan Will Help.

Last month the California State Transportation Agency (CalSTA), with CCA’s support, adopted its Climate Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure (CAPTI), after a lengthy public process that began with Governor Newsom’s Executive Order in September of 2019. CAPTI sets a framework for planning transportation in a way that doesn’t further destroy the environment, the economy, or […]

Jared Corpron Of At Your Service Pros Goes Breaks Powerlifting Records

Fitness enthusiast and entrepreneur, Jared Corpron, pushes boundaries in the world of powerlifting while providing premium quality HVAC services to clients across Salt Lake City The team at At Your Service Pros, led by the passionate Jared Corpron, is not resting on their oars on helping families in and around Salt Lake City Utah through their […]

Legislature and Governor take steps towards cleaner air, need to do more next year

13 Oct With Governor Newsom having acted on all the bills the Legislature sent him this year, it’s time to assess the results. Several bills that we supported to reduce harmful pollution are now law, but lawmakers failed to act on some key ambitious measures, leaving unfinished business for next year. WINS AB 970, authored […]

STATEMENT: Coalition for Clean Air applauds California Air Resources Board for passing Clean Transportation Funding Plan

Coalition for Clean Air (CCA) releases the following statement on the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) adoption of the $1.548 billion 2021-2022 Funding Plan for Clean Transportation Incentives:   “We thank CARB for approving a bold and generous Funding Plan today,” said CCA Deputy Policy Director Christopher Chavez. “This Plan will give low- and middle-income Californians […]

Stories of Clean Air – Coalition for Clean Air

Giving Tuesday isn’t about bragging, though we could point to big wins here and here and here. It isn’t about donor education, though we could point out that we have a platinum charity rating. And it isn’t about the results of our work, though we could point out that the smog we’ve helped clean up […]

Indoor Air Pollution Threat For Rise In Infectious Diseases

While we were recovering from the COVID variants like delta, delta plus a new mutated variant – Omicron has arrived and has lead to the threat of the third wave. Indoor air pollution can be a major risk factor for the rise in all sorts of respiratory illnesses – COVID infections, non-COVID viral infections like […]

Living with the Pandemic – Times of Oman

Dr. Dilip Abdul Khadar Where we stand today Almost 2 years into the pandemic, mankind has never been blessed more. We could for the first time since the beginning of this once-in-a-century pandemic that has altered our lives beyond recognition managed to come up with the first vaccine for COVID-19 in less than a year. […]