Right To Zero
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Transforming the way we generate energy & power transportation and buildings. #ZeroEmissions, zero excuses. 🌎⚡️☀️ Earthjustice campaign. https://earthjustice.org/feature/right-to-zero-emissions
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The smoke has cleared, but many NYers still breathe unhealthy air every day. A new @CityLimitsNews op-ed makes the case for the #CleanDeliveriesAct, which would help reduce pollution coming from mega-warehouses and create healthier communities. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4bXCIWg #CleanAir #NY
GOOD NEWS: A federal court upheld all-electric new construction ordinance in Oak Park, Illinois!
Research that used a federal grant to pay for asthma patients to have their gas stoves replaced showed a dramatic fall in asthma attacks. The program was cut short after President Trump took office.
The EPA halted a study on gas stoves and asthma. But even partial results were striking.
Research that used a federal grant to pay for asthma patients to have their gas stoves replaced showed a dramatic fall in asthma attacks. The program was cut short after President Donald Trump took of...
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The science is getting harder to ignore. A groundbreaking new study adds to decades of evidence linking gas stove pollution to asthma by showing health improvements after families switched to electric stoves. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Replacing gas stove can help asthmatics as much as some drugs, US experts find
Team in Ohio finds swapping to electric has ‘very large’ impact, despite study being scaled back by Trump cuts
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New Yorkers deserve policies that respond to the urgency of diesel exhaust clouding neighborhoods. citylimits.org/opinion-corp...
Turns out replacing gas stoves with induction stoves reduces asthma. theconversation.com/replacing-ga...
Replacing gas stoves with electric stoves greatly reduces asthma symptoms
People with poorly controlled asthma may be able to breathe easier by making a change in the kitchen.
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Leaders in Washington have an opportunity to clean up the state's air pollution by adopting e-commerce pollution controls earthjustice.org/experts/vict...
Click, Click, Pollute. Washington Started the E-Commerce Boom – Now It Can Fix its Pollution
Adopting e-commerce pollution controls in Washington is a commonsense solution
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Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
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“The air conditioner can stay on, but we can still reduce load on the grid.” Here’s how the combination of ACs and batteries kept New Yorkers cool and the grid stable during the recent heatwave: www.canarymedia.com/articles/bat.... @canarymedia.com
Plug-in batteries kept NYC renters cool during record heat wave
A new program from startup Every Electric and utility Con Edison lets New Yorkers power their window ACs with home batteries to take stress off the grid.
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Mega-warehouses and the diesel trucks that come and go from them have created an air quality crisis in New York. The good news? We have policies that can clean up these facilities. citylimits.org/delivery-war...
Delivery Warehouse Boom is Impacting NYC's Low-Income Neighborhoods Most, Reports Finds - City Limits
“The reason why a lot of these warehouses are placed where they are is based on histories of redlining,” the report's author told City Limits.
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One Los Angeles contractor found a planet-friendly solution to a problem many California mobile home park residents face: dangerous heat and unaffordable cooling.
Tackling Affordability and Extreme Heat in LA’s Mobile Home Parks | KQED
One Los Angeles contractor found a planet-friendly solution to a problem many California mobile home park residents face: dangerous heat and unaffordable cooling.
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Heat pumps do it all. They're helping Californians deal with extreme heat because they provide BOTH air conditioning and cooling all while cutting pollution. www.kqed.org/science/2001...
‘A Blessing from Heaven’: How Free Heat Pumps Are Saving Low-Income Californians From Extreme Heat | KQED
One Los Angeles contractor found a planet-friendly solution to a problem many California mobile home park residents face: dangerous heat and unaffordable cooling.
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Good news from @governor.ca.gov! California is making big investments in nonpolluting transportation. www.gov.ca.gov/2026/07/16/g...
Governor Newsom secures 13 automakers to offer instant rebates for first-time ZEV buyers | Governor of California
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@mrmattsimon.bsky.social has it right. America is falling in love with heat pumps. grist.org/energy/the-u...
The US may be hitting a tipping point for heat pumps
In the first quarter of this year, heat pump sales beat fossil fuel furnaces by 32 percent. Here's what makes the appliance so powerful.
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Electric school bus batteries🤝grid resilience during heatwaves www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Electric school buses tapped to shore up fragile US power grids during summer heat
Schools are out for the summer, but the batteries in more than 200 electric school buses are helping some people in the U.S. find relief when temperatures soar.
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Southern California's first-in-the-nation rule to electrify industrial heating survived a courtroom challenge: www.canarymedia.com/articles/ele... via @mariagallucci.bsky.social
Southern California clean-heat rule survives key legal challenge
A U.S. appeals court upheld the first-in-the-nation measure, which will slash smog-forming emissions from certain gas-fueled boilers and heaters in the…
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Good news in NYC: New Yorkers will soon be able to purchase meals from food carts powered by rechargeable batteries instead of polluting generators ⚡ www.nyc.gov/content/clim...
Home - Mayor's Office of Climate & Environmental Justice
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BREAKING: Over 100 tenants submit letter urging Maryland Public Service Commission to advance delayed network geothermal pilot earthjustice.org/press/2026/o...
Over 100 Tenants Submit Letter Urging Maryland Public Service Commission To Advance Delayed Networked Geothermal Pilot
Pilot, which would improve air quality and lower energy bills, has faced long delays
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“It was a big win for folks who breathe air in Southern California. The court fully understood how important this rule is to saving lives.” - @candiceyoungblood.bsky.social
Canary Media Inc.@canarymedia.com · 4w agoSouthern California just scored a clean air victory. A federal court has upheld the region’s landmark rules curbing emissions from industrial heating sources.
Important read from Sam Fishman with @spur-urbanist.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
Mad about the Bay Area gas water heater ban? Here’s what you need to know
OPINION: Every year we delay the electric transition, more money flows from Bay Area households into gas infrastructure that fewer and fewer people are using, Sam Fishman writes.
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In case you missed the good news: Last week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld @southcoastaqmd.bsky.social's zero-emission boiler rule against industry challenge! earthjustice.org/press/2026/n...
Ninth Circuit rejects industry challenge to SoCal clean air rule for boilers, water heaters
Federal court reaffirms South Coast Air Quality Management District’s right to cut smog-forming pollution from boilers and water heaters
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You think gas bills pay for gas - but they're really paying for pipes! New @sfchronicle.com op-ed from @spur-urbanist.bsky.social's Sam Fishman on why the @airdistrict.bsky.social's clean appliance standards can help lower bills with electric appliances. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
Mad about the Bay Area gas water heater ban? Here’s what you need to know
OPINION: Every year we delay the electric transition, more money flows from Bay Area households into gas infrastructure that fewer and fewer people are using, Sam Fishman writes.
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BREAKING: We’re filing a lawsuit challenging the approval of the nation’s largest rail facility, a project that will worsen already poor air quality earthjustice.org/press/2026/l...
Lawsuit Challenges Approval of Nation’s Largest Rail Facility in California
5K-acre project would destroy desert lands, add pollution to Barstow, L.A. region
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BREAKING: We’re filing a lawsuit challenging the approval of the nation’s largest rail facility, a project that will worsen already poor air quality earthjustice.org/press/2026/l...
Lawsuit Challenges Approval of Nation’s Largest Rail Facility in California
5K-acre project would destroy desert lands, add pollution to Barstow, L.A. region
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"The gas industry tried to take away the ability for local voters to choose to build cleaner, healthier, and more sustainable homes for our kids to grow up in. The court saw right through the gas industry’s claims." - Dror Ladin, @earthjustice.org earthjustice.org/press/2026/u...
U.S. Court of Appeals Upholds New York’s All-Electric Building Act
Decision marks the first court of appeals to confirm that states and cities have the power to enact building electrification laws, which are critical to clean energy transition; Saves New Yorkers mone...
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GOOD NEWS: The Home Energy Choice Act #AB2313 has passed out of the Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications committee. Thank you @asmmarcberman.bsky.social for your commitment to giving Californians the ability to choose the energy source for their homes.
Right To Zero@righttozero.bsky.social · last mo.The Home Energy Choice Act #AB2313 is before California’s Senate Energy Committee next week! @asmmarcberman.bsky.social It’s the biggest no brainer of the state legislative session. bit.ly/4aDSYLJ
GOOD NEWS: Yesterday, @governor.ca.gov signed the state budget, which includes a $135.5 million investment in the state’s program to electrify trucks. @lasmogguy.bsky.social shares how CA is demonstrating that we don’t need to cower in the face of federal attacks earthjustice.org/experts/adri...
California Leaders Listen to Community Demanding Action to Clean up Deadly Diesel Pollution
California includes $135.5 million investment in state’s program to electrify trucks
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