cELEBRATING CLEAN CARS STANDARDS!

Lives will be saved, public health and climate goals advanced, and harmful pollution abated due to the EPA’s new light-duty vehicle standards announced earlier today. COEJL is grateful to the agency and the Biden Administration for this important step toward environmental and climate justice:

“These new standards will cut more than 7 billion tons of carbon emissions, improving protections for the health and safety of all our communities. Strong clean car standards remain a top priority of ours, particularly as it relates to Communities of Color and other marginalized groups that bear the full brunt of our climate crisis.” - Israel Harris, COEJL Advocacy Director 

“Our commitment to protect our land, its inhabitants, and all of creation continues to guide us in this work. We are told to ‘do the right and the good’ since holiness gets expressed through action. This action by the administration is a huge – if insufficient, given the scale of the pollution and climate challenges we face – step in the right direction.” - Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb, COEJL Rabbinic Consultant ​