SIGNED: East Bay Clean Power Alliance letter to East Bay Community Energy Commission to urging them to implement a county Green New Deal and realign policy decisions to fulfill the racial, social and economic equity goals that spurred creation of the agency.
SUBMITTED Public Comments and SIGNED a letter: to the to the California Energy Commission (CEC) supporting an all-electric baseline in the 2022 Buildings Code. We are calling on the CEC to make clean, efficient, all-electric buildings the standard for new state-wide construction going forward. This means changing the "baseline" (the energy usage goal against which all ...
SIGNED: Public Health Comments on Advanced Clean Cars II Workshop Joined the American Lung Association and other organizations’ letter to the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB). The launch of the next round of clean vehicle standards marks an important milestone on the pathway to achieving healthy air and a healthy climate. With Governor Newsom’s Executive ...
PASSED: the California Air Resources Board unanimously adopted the landmark Advanced Clean Trucks rule – a first-in-the-world requirement to transition the trucking sector to zero-emission technologies in California and beyond. This critical rule will help us reduce air pollution in our most impacted communities, fight climate change, and save lives. See the American Lung Association’s ...
Bravo to SF Bay PSR Board member Dr. Tom Newman for his work on the Good Food Purchasing Standards in San Francisco. The San Francisco Sheriff’s Office and the Department of Public Health will start aligning their food purchasing practices with standards aimed at improving the environment and the health and well-being of those who ...
Public Health and Air Quality Professionals Call for an All-Electric Energy Code in the 2022 Building Energy Efficiency Standards (Docket No. 19-BSTD-03) As a group of public health and air quality professionals, we appreciate the opportunity to comment on the California Energy Commission’s (CEC) 2022 Building Energy Efficiency Standards. Exposure to air pollution is ...
In June 2020, the California Air Resources Board unanimously adopted the landmark Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) rule that supports increasing levels of zero emission technologies across the truck fleet in California between 2024 and 2035. The proposal will generate deep reductions in harmful pollutants, yield significant health benefits in California and beyond, and especially ...
