Invest in Clean Air & Save Lives

The state’s suite of equitable, clean transportation programs is designed to cut pollution from cars and trucks by making clean transportation options more affordable and accessible for all Californians, including those in highly impacted and under-resourced communities.

The state’s clean transportation programs are already chronically underfunded, and current budget proposals threaten to eliminate already promised investments that directly support households and businesses in the transition to zero-emission technologies needed to clean the air.

The Equitable Building Decarbonization (EBD) Program is a vital part of California’s clean air safety net, and an important tool to provide relief from indoor and outdoor air pollution, energy costs, extreme heat, and unhealthy living environments by funding whole home efficiency retrofits. 

Gas-powered appliances are a major source of harmful air pollution in California, contributing to our ozone “smog” challenges, indoor air pollution impacts and climate change. Maintaining funding for the EBD program will have real-life benefits for low-income households who bear higher energy burdens, live in less energy-efficient homes, and are disproportionately exposed to pollution.

Before the state even considers cuts to equitable clean air programs, we must expand the Governor’s proposed cuts to subsidies for big polluters and other infrastructure investments - like highway expansions – that increase air and climate pollution.

California taxpayers shouldn’t subsidize industries and transportation infrastructure that continue to pollute our communities and harm our residents.