Petition CARB to SPEED UP on clean cars!
Chair Liane Randolph and Members of the California Air Resources Board
Click on "Add your name" to sign our petition (text below), asking the California Air Resources Board to vote to strengthen staff's draft clean cars rule, Advanced Clean Cars II, or ACC II. You may also leave a comment, telling CARB why their vote on this issue is so important to you—and the planet.
- 100 percent zero-emission vehicle sales in California, by 2030.
- 7 percent annual pollution cuts from gas-powered cars in the meantime
- CARB's binding commitment to equity, ensuring that communities most affected by pollution benefit from electric vehicles first and foremost.
We'll submit the petition, with signers' names and cities, before the public comment deadline on May 31.
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Chair Liane Randolph and Members of the California Air Resources Board
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I and all of the California residents signing below urge you to restore California’s leadership on clean cars by 1) accelerating the state’s transition to 100 percent electric vehicles, and 2) requiring manufacturers to offer new gas-powered cars that are progressively cleaner each year until the deadline.
Climate pollution from gas-powered cars and trucks makes up nearly 30 percent of total emissions in California. Our vehicles are massive drivers of the climate emergency, devastating our state with deadlier, more damaging wildfires, heat waves, and drought.
Historically, California has led the nation in setting strong auto emissions standards—but the current clean cars proposal falls short of the action we need.
With a 2035 deadline for 100 percent zero-emission vehicle sales in our state, California will not meet its goal of carbon neutrality by 2045—because many new vehicles last 20 years or longer. Moving the target date to 2030 will give our state a better chance of meeting its climate goals and remaining a global leader on clean cars.
Also important: until we reach that all-EV, new sales target in 2030, California must work to reduce the climate-damaging emissions from new gasoline cars. Vehicle manufacturers must take action to ensure that all of the vehicles they produce emit less tailpipe pollution year over year. This is critical to protect the health of communities hit hardest by vehicular pollution, particularly low-income communities of color near congested freeways.
California must lead the way with strong policy solutions to end tailpipe pollution and build an environmentally just transportation system. New clean car standards must ensure equitable access to electric vehicles.
We urge you to adopt strong clean car rules that require:
**100 percent zero-emission vehicle sales by 2030
**7 percent annual pollution cuts from gas-powered cars, year over year between now and 2030
**Mandatory equity commitments to ensure that communities most affected by pollution benefit from electric vehicles first and foremost
This transition is a tremendous opportunity to create family-supporting, high-paying jobs for Californians. We urge you to seize this moment and adopt nation-leading clean car standards that slash climate pollution, ensure equity, and promote good jobs.