Our friends over at Clean Fuel WA are joining up with efforts to see a clean fuel standard enacted in WA in 2021, and their latest blog on how electric vehicles are winning part of clean fuels is a great explainer. We know clean fuels programs provide dollars for electric vehicle infrastructure—we’re already seeing these […]
As practicing physicians, we see the health impacts of air pollution and climate change every day. As a father, I’ve felt how scary it was when our infant son struggled to breathe. Allowing children to suffer from asthma is an unacceptable harm brought on by our addiction to fossil fuels. It’s our responsibility to keep […]
Washington Senate Democrats wrapped up the 2020 legislative session by handing veto power to a small minority of its caucus, and failing to take action to cut transportation pollution—ignoring a priority of 66% of WA voters. “Climate delay is just as bad as denial. This year’s legislative session was a comprehensive failure to act on climate,” […]
It’s no surprise that Washingtonians care about the climate and environmental health. Now, a new poll shows that by a dramatic margin, we also want our lawmakers to take action to reduce the climate-harming pollution that comes from our cars, trucks, and other forms of fossil-fuelled transportation. These findings, from the latest Crosscut Elway Poll […]
Excerpt from op-ed in Dec 18-23 issue of Real Change: We all use transportation to take us places — work, errands, celebrations, important appointments — and we all rely on a variety of public transit and personal vehicles. We all deserve to move safely, freely and efficiently; there’s no reason we shouldn’t also have a […]
Heavy-duty vehicles, like public transit buses, only make up 5 percent of all vehicles on the road, but nationally their pollution makes up 25% of the transportation sector’s annual contribution to climate change. Thankfully, a new report (available online here) from the Union of Concerned Scientists shows that battery electric buses, in all parts of […]