Larisa Manescu

Lead the Charge: An Even Cleaner EV is Possible A new analysis ranking 18 global automakers shows that a truly cleaner, more responsible EV is within reach. The leaders are proving it can be done, and the laggards, like the world’s largest automake...

Even cleaner EVs – built with equitable, sustainable & fossil-free supply chains are within reach. The Lead the Charge Leaderboard ranking 18 global automakers shows a majority are taking important steps to clean up their supply chains. @leadthecharge.bsky.social
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The Sierra Club is suing the Environmental Protection Agency over its rollback of key climate protections, arguing the move is illegal, unscientific, and harmful to public health.

One supporter: @sierraclub.org leader Juanita Chavez, daughter of Dolores Huerta.

Let Me Count The Ways: EV Love Stories This Valentine’s Day, we’re spotlighting a collection of stories from our staff and members that broke up with gas and what they enjoy most about their pollution-free rides.

Showing our love for clean transportation on Valentine's Day. 🚗🚆🚲❤️ Our wonderful @sierraclub.org colleagues drive electric cars, zip around their neighborhoods on electric bikes, and take electric trains to get out of town. www.sierraclub.org/articles/202...

Rosa Parks statue in Montgomery, AL.

This #TransitEquityDay, we demand #ICEoffOurStreets.
Stop staking out bus stops and abducting neighbors going to work or school.

We Don't Need More Highway Lanes. We Need Public Transit Colorado has spent fifty years widening highways. Let’s try something that will actually work. In 2026, Colorado will decide how to spend tens of billions

Opinion | "We built a transportation system that requires everyone to drive everywhere for everything. And now, our endless-lane model is collapsing under the weight of its own inefficiency. "
https://www.westword.com/opinion/opinion-no-more-highway-lanes-for-colorado-40825034/

While our communities are left breathing dirtier air due the federal administration weakening clean vehicle standards, Toyota executives like VP of Government Affairs Stephen Ciccone are popping champagne (literally) 🍾

Ciccone also invented these lobbying games.

The automaker's gamification of lobbying to undermine clean air and climate standards is a new low for Toyota.

@sierraclub.org Clean Transportation for All Director @katherinejulia.bsky.social in @theguardian.com:

Revealed: how Toyota uses retro-style games and prizes to urge US workers to lobby politicians Games such as Dragon Quest used to mobilize workers to back corporate goals including relaxing environmental rules

🚗 New @theguardian.com investigation by @dharna.bsky.social: The world's biggest carmaker, Toyota, is using retro-style video games to rally its US workforce behind its corporate goals, including lobbying to relax environmental rules.

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Charging Forward: Our Fight for Clean Transportation in 2025 As we go into the holiday season and begin a new year, we’re taking time to reflect on 2025 and how Americans—despite tremendous opposition and roadblocks every step of the way– fought to protect our ...

As 2025 wraps up, we’re celebrating clean transportation wins — despite constant roadblocks. From protecting the national EV charging network to opposing federal climate rollbacks, advocates kept progress moving.

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Trump is in #Baltimore for this #ArmyNavy game and somehow the cops did not coordinate road closures at all…we’re completely trapped on a feeder road right now & have been for 30 mins.

This woman asked and they said AN HOUR OR TWO that we can’t move.

Very excited to read this climate apocalypse book!

Trump proposal would weaken vehicle mileage rules that limit air pollution President Donald Trump has announced a proposal to weaken vehicle mileage rules for the auto industry.

"Gutting the (gas-mileage) program will make cars burn more gas and American families burn more cash," said 

@katherinejulia.bsky.social, director of the Sierra Club’s Clean Transportation for All program.

Trump Returns to Gasoline as Fuel of Choice for Cars, Gutting Biden’s Climate Policy

Trump's move to gut fuel-economy standards for automobiles rewards his big oil donors and will “make cars burn more gas and American families burn more cash" Katherine Garcia @sierraclub.org @nytimes.com
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Hollywood pumps the brakes on Toyota The entertainment industry's leading sustainability group says privately it will cut ties with its top sponsor, after critics accuse Toyota of funding climate denial.

Toyota funds more climate deniers in Congress than any other car company, and just 1.2% of its U.S. sales were EVs last year. Under pressure from @janefonda.com, Hollywood's leading environmental group is cutting ties with the Japanese automaker: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/hollywood-...

Hollywood pumps the brakes on Toyota The entertainment industry's leading sustainability group says privately it will cut ties with its top sponsor, after critics accuse Toyota of funding climate denial.

For years, Toyota has stubbornly lagged behind on manufacturing electric vehicles and funded climate deniers running for Congress. @sammyroth.bsky.social's new newsletter reports that Hollywood’s leading sustainability group has decided to cut ties with Toyota. open.substack.com/pub/climatec...

From DC to Detroit, We’re United for Clean Vehicles & Clean Air The Environmental Protection Agency’s open comment period for its dangerous proposal to attack climate protections, including federal vehicle pollution standards, has come to an end.

The Trump EPA's comment period for its dangerous proposal to attack critical climate protections has come to an end. Read our recap of how the Sierra Club community spoke out against the rollback of #CleanerCars and #CleanerTrucks: www.sierraclub.org/articles/202...

Truck manufacturers must pivot to electric trucks amid 25% Trump tariffs, warn U.S. and EU groups The tariffs are expected to further drive up truck prices, in addition to previously imposed tariffs on aluminium and steel. The setback for truck manufacturers by the Federal Government follows…

Talk about a misstep. Truck manufacturers rowed in with the Trump administration in trying to shut down the electric truck market and now it's slapping them with 25% tariffs on heavy truck imports - slated to take effect today. More: buff.ly/W9XUIGP

Guess what? Week Without Driving is BACK starting Monday, September 29th! Because our broken sidewalks and unreliable buses don't fix themselves. Because accessibility isn't an option. Because equity is more than talking the talk, it takes action.

🚨 Today, US civil society joins the global call for Hyundai to clean up its supply chain.

Hyundai’s business model = climate chaos, human rights abuses & worker exploitation. It's time for #HyundaiDriveChange.

Learn more 🔗 drive-change.org

Utilities are backtracking on climate commitments: Sierra Club The report named six utility companies reversing course on emissions reductions: Entergy, Duke Energy, Evergy, Cleco, American Electric Power and Arizona Public Service.

Utility Dive: Utilities are backtracking on climate commitments: Sierra Club www.utilitydive.com/news/utiliti...

Save environmental protections 🚨 The Trump admin just took its most extreme step yet in rolling back climate protections. Will you act now to demand that the EPA do its job and follow the science, not the agenda of the corporate p...

We’ve seen overwhelming opposition to EPA rollbacks at hearings—now let’s make it official. Submit your comment before Sept. 22 to stop Trump & Zeldin’s rollback of #CleanerCars & #CleanerTrucks standards. Add your voice now: sc.org/ProtectEPA

"The Trump administration does not care about your family’s health and safety. They do not have a plan to protect you and the people you care about from dangerous pollution, extreme weather events and he worsening climate crisis."

Rescinding the endangerment finding "will keep our society addicted to dirty fossil fuels that are increasing in prices," said Craig Nazor of TX, @sierraclub.org. "The EPA should not be aiding the demise of America."

Day 4 of the public hearing on the EPA’s reconsideration of the endangerment finding is beginning now. It is the final scheduled day of the public hearing. 🧪

We'll be following along with some of the testimony here: 👇🧵

Today marks day 1 of public hearings on the EPA’s reconsideration of the endangerment finding, a 2009 declaration that greenhouse gases threaten public health. Follow along with us👇🧵

Challenge to clean trucks agreement is an attack on trucking industry, say experts Western States Trucking Association push back on Clean Truck Partnership

BREAKING: A new legal attack on the Clean Trucks Partnership threatens 52K+ electric trucks on US roads. Volvo & Daimler signed the deal–will they stand by it? Experts warn this move risks stalling progress as EU & China surge ahead.

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FREEDOM TO RIDE 🚌: EVs aren’t just for drivers — electric buses are delivering lower costs, higher reliability, and cleaner air for students and transit riders across the country! Let’s protect the freedom to ride electric 🔗 rtzero.org

#RouteZero #CleanRide4Kids

In Wednesday’s episode of The Jolt, Kira looks at the repercussions of Donald Trump's ‘big beautiful bill’ for the US energy transition, plus Sam reports on how climate action in Italy is getting a big...

Listen now: foresightmedia.com/story/s5EYiQ...

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🚨 The Trump administration just took its most extreme step yet in rolling back climate protections.