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Environmental attorney working toward environmental justice and a zero-emissions future • views my own

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Electric Postal Service Vehicles Deliver Holiday Cheer and Clean Air EVs are now operating from 65 post offices across the U.S., followed by years of public pressure and Earthjustice litigation.

Good news! After years of public pressure and Earthjustice litigation, the U.S. Postal Service has rolled out more than 2,600 electric vehicles for mail carriers at 65 sites around the country, delivering cleaner air for our communities. @righttozero.bsky.social

23.12.2025 16:57 👍 66 🔁 19 💬 3 📌 1
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Last week, we gathered at the SCAQMD to urge board members to pass common-sense zero emissions standards for industrial boilers!

Check out our coalition’s new interactive map identifying nearly 2,000 industrial boilers ready to transition.
Explore the map here 👉 lnkd.in/gdMM6CtN

09.12.2025 18:01 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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LA Wildfire Survivors Want to Rebuild All-Electric, but a Utility Is Using Customer Funds to Incentivize Gas Appliances - Inside Climate News California’s utility regulator said it would eliminate ratepayer-funded incentives for gas appliances in new construction, but created an exception that allows rebates for them in wildfire rebuilds.

NEW: America’s largest gas utility is using ratepayer funds to incentivize rebuilding with fossil gas appliances after LA wildfires

SoCalGas is taking advantage of “broken rules”

Thank you @missionvespa.bsky.social for going down the rabbit hole with me:

insideclimatenews.org/news/0312202...

03.12.2025 15:12 👍 65 🔁 42 💬 2 📌 7
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Industrial Equity Mapper Stories of Industrial Pollution in the U.S.

We just rolled out the latest version of the Industrial Equity Mapper. I must say I think it's pretty good. industriouslabs.org/issues/indus...

30.10.2025 17:30 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Coalition urges Metro to speed up bus electrification | KCRW The LA County Electric Truck and Bus Coalition says it will take LA Metro 250 years to electrify all its buses at the agency’s current pace. Metro did not respond to a request for comment.

Listen to @candiceyoungblood.bsky.social talk about why we need @metrolosangeles.bsky.social to move faster on its bus electrification goals #ElectrifyLA28
www.kcrw.com/shows/kcrw-r...

27.10.2025 17:07 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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This startup’s electric roasters cut carbon and costs from… Bellwether produces all-electric, efficient machines that replace gas-burning roasters, giving cafes a sustainable – and affordable – way to roast their…

Rise and shine with a cleaner cup of coffee.

Bellwether Coffee is grinding out an electric alternative to typical fossil fuel-powered bean roasters — an appliance that could let every coffee shop save money and become a roaster.

16.10.2025 15:00 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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In a Win for Clean Air and Common Sense, Governor Newsom Vetoes SB 34 Legislation would have tied Southern California air regulators’ hands and made it more difficult to shape clean air policies in the nation’s smog capital

In case you missed the good news: @governor.ca.gov vetoed #SB34, a dangerous bill that would have made it more difficult to clean the air in the nation’s smog capital
earthjustice.org/press/2025/i...

15.10.2025 18:20 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Thank you, @governor.ca.gov, for standing strong for Californians and the right to breathe clean air.

This piece of legislation would have made it more difficult to shape clean air policies in Southern California, the nation's smog capital.

17.10.2025 20:34 👍 48 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 1
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VICTORY: @governor.ca.gov just signed #AB1167 to prevent utilities from forcing customers to pay for utility lobbying and advertising costs!
earthjustice.org/press/2025/c...

14.10.2025 17:15 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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California Passes Law Lowering Energy Bills and Protecting Californians from Utility Misbehavior The California Ratepayer Protection Act (AB 1167) prevents utilities from forcing customers to pay for utility lobbying and advertising costs

Great news: California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the California Ratepayer Protection Act, which prevents for-profit utilities like PG&E and SoCalGas from forcing customers to pay for political lobbying and promotional ads.

This will lower energy bills for Californians - a big win!

14.10.2025 18:34 👍 473 🔁 146 💬 15 📌 9
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A New Law Can Cut Expenses that Shouldn’t Be in Californians' Utility Bills It's up to Governor Newsom to sign AB 1167 into law and give Californians the protections other states are already enjoying.

Every time Californians pay their utility bill, they may also be footing the bill for their utility's lobbying costs.

#AB1167 would put an end to this.

@governor.ca.gov let's sign this important bill!

07.10.2025 23:16 👍 208 🔁 65 💬 7 📌 2

@governor.ca.gov let's get this done!

08.10.2025 17:00 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Environmental, labor groups say LA Metro’s conversion to electric buses is too slow Environment and labor groups demand LA Metro move ahead with electrifying its bus fleet, at least by 50% for ’28 Olympics

Love to see the Electric Truck and Bus coalition doing great work! So frustrating that Metro is fighting electrification at every step. Good to keep their feet to the fire. www.dailynews.com/2025/09/24/e...

27.09.2025 00:05 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

It takes a LOT to get a bill all the way through the CA legislature. Help us seal the deal by asking @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social to sign AB 1167 (protecting Californians from paying utility political & promotional costs in their energy bills) and AB 1280 (supporting industrial electrification)!

30.09.2025 21:34 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Our team had a great morning urging @metrolosangeles.bsky.social to move faster in electrifying its bus fleet!

25.09.2025 19:44 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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LA Should Go for the Gold When It Comes to Electric Transit Buses With the LA 2028 Olympics looming, LA Metro should keep pace with Olympic cities.

After the Olympic and Paralympic Games leave Los Angeles, Angelenos deserve a legacy beyond stadiums and smog. #ElectrifyLA28 #FutureIsElectric

earthjustice.org/experts/cand...

25.09.2025 23:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Environmental, labor groups say LA Metro’s conversion to electric buses is too slow Environment and labor groups demand LA Metro move ahead with electrifying its bus fleet, at least by 50% for ’28 Olympics

@candyoungblood.bsky.social has it right:
"Not only are we far behind what Metro itself has committed to. Also, that is not keeping pace with other host cities. We have only three years go get there so we have to take action today.”
www.dailynews.com/2025/09/24/e...

25.09.2025 19:44 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

That’s us 😎

25.09.2025 18:23 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

​In California, Earthjustice's @righttozero.bsky.social campaign has scored wins that are transforming the energy sector. This includes landmark laws to shift the grid off fossil fuels by 2045, electrify transit, and lower utility bills — setting the standard for zero-emissions work nationwide.

25.09.2025 14:38 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Rally for LA Metro Electric Buses Join the LA County Electric Truck and Bus Coalition for a rally to get LA Metro to recommit to electrifying its bus fleet.

TOMORROW we're hosting a rally with breakfast tacos and coffee!

We'll be telling @metrolosangeles.bsky.social that now is the time to recommit to electrifying Los Angeles' bus fleet.

www.eventbrite.com/e/rally-for-...

24.09.2025 19:35 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Take action today to get more electric buses on LA's roads!

22.09.2025 21:56 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Tell the LA Metro Board to electrify our buses Urge the LA metro board to electrify their buses before the 2028 games.

🗣 Tell the LA Metro Board to electrify our buses before the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games! Let's #ElectrifyLA28 for lasting benefits for Angelenos: cleaner air, good jobs, and better rides for passengers and drivers alike.

Take action here: earthjustice.org/action/tell-...

22.09.2025 21:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Etransit buses are just better than methane burning buses for riders. Took a SM big blue gillig ebus & it was quiet & clean. Took a methane burner back & it was loud & funky smelling

Now don’t get me wrong - we need to keep using combustion buses until the end of useful life but ebuses are better.

20.09.2025 00:05 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Grab some breakfast tacos and coffee and join us for a rally to demand @metrolosangeles.bsky.social embrace a bold plan to Electrify LA28.

🗓️ Thursday, September 25 at 9 am
www.eventbrite.com/e/rally-for-...

16.09.2025 22:34 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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This month, we partnered with @earthjustice.org and Bellwether Coffee to welcome California policymakers and agency leaders to their facility in Berkeley to explore how coffee roasting can operate without relying on fossil fuels.

28.08.2025 21:42 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Coffee is a popular drink in California, yet the process of roasting coffee beans can be expensive and environmentally damaging. I took a tour of Berkeley's Bellwether Coffee, which is leading clean tech innovation with the development of an all-electric, ventless coffee roaster.

14.08.2025 00:38 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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California Can’t Afford to Blink in the Showdown over Zero-Emissions While Trump wreaks havoc, California can resist the big chill on zero-emissions

Some thoughts for the day…

substack.com/@lasmogguy/n...

19.08.2025 22:50 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

“These are dark times. But remember, California is being targeted because our leadership has made a difference.” @lasmogguy.bsky.social

#FutureIsElectric

20.08.2025 00:59 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Installing heat pumps in factories could save $1.5 trillion and 77,000 lives Replacing conventional boilers with heat pumps could also avoid 33 million asthma attacks by 2050, thanks to improved air quality.

Installing heat pumps in factories could save $1.5 trillion and 77,000 lives.

A new report finds that replacing conventional boilers with heat pumps could also avoid 33 million asthma attacks by 2050, thanks to improved air quality.

grist.org/energy/insta...

#Heatpumps #Climate #AC #Heat #Energy

14.08.2025 12:40 👍 139 🔁 73 💬 4 📌 10
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Smog Chronicles It's Getting Hot in Here, So Write on Substack

Hey folks - started a substack. Subscribe (for free) if you want to read it.

open.substack.com/pub/lasmoggu...

18.08.2025 22:59 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2