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A Road to Better Tomorrows: The EPA’s Proposed Regulation of Heavy Trucking

(June 13, 2023) While keeping up with climate change requires facing myriad challenges, the Biden Administration has been overarchingly successful in ramping up environmental and climate action. Most recently, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed updates to transit policy including a new set of standards for heavy-duty vehicles.

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Change the Chamber Releases New Report Calling Out the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

(June 6, 2023) The U.S. Chamber of Commerce continues its legacy of going beyond promoting deregulation and government inaction to advocating for government actions that actively harm marginalized populations including BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, low-income, women, and disabled communities.

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Big Oil Strikes Back

(May 9, 2023) In December of 2022, Los Angeles city lawmakers unanimously passed a bill that would ban new oil and gas wells in residential areas while phasing out existing wells over the next 20 years. Predictably, oil and gas companies immediately expressed outrage and began mobilizing to prevent it from becoming a reality.

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New Proposed Soot Standards are Not Enough

(March 13, 2023) Beyond the direct preventable death count from soot-related health complications, the failure of EPA soot regulations to align with scientific recommendations has other ramifications.

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Shopping for a Better Future

(January 21, 2023) Since there is customer focus on “going green,” some companies are responding by reportedly increasing sustainability initiatives while doing very little, also known as “greenwashing.”

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