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- Our Work90%of Californians live with air that threatens their health.
- Learn more9000Californians die prematurely each year because of air pollution.
- Get Involvedof the most air
polluted U.S. cities
are in California.7/10 - News Deskyears of your life may be lost due to living with unhealthy air.1-3
- About Usbillion are spent each year in California because of air pollution.$28
- Messages
Why Support Us
The Coalition for Clean Air works to restore
California's most precious natural resource: the air we breathe!
Message from the President and CEO
If you live in California, air pollution touches your life—from high asthma rates, to alarming numbers of premature deaths, to the $28 billion price tag we pay each year. California is home to seven of the country’s 10 most air-polluted cities, with 90% of our population breathing air that violates federal health standards. And with our heavy contribution to climate change, California’s air pollution impacts those far beyond our own borders.
The Coalition for Clean Air (CCA) is uniquely qualified to combat these statistics. We target the state’s most damaging pollution sources by working with legislators and regulators—from local agencies to the White House—and collaborating with businesses, community groups and fellow advocates to provide innovative solutions that withstand political backlash. Our exclusive focus on California enables us to effectively address its acute air quality problem, as well as to use the state’s distinctive position as a testing ground for the nation’s environmental standards. And our statewide network adds a strategic edge to local air issues by bridging community efforts to opportunities that improve air quality across California.
We invite you to get to know us better by exploring the pages of this site. CCA is already working for you and a vision of clean, healthy air for all Californians. We hope you’ll choose to join us to make healthy air a reality.
Many thanks and best wishes,
Joseph K. Lyou, Ph.D.
Your Dollars at Work
CCA organizes regional training events throughout the year to provide new air advocates with necessary skills, resources and opportunities to strengthen our collective efforts.
The Coalition for Clean Air is California’s only statewide organization exclusively advocating for clean air.
Your gift to CCA helps us make significant improvements to California’s air through our efforts in:
- Advocating innovative policy solutions within state and federal legislative and regulatory avenues
- Orchestrating strategic, broad-based collaborative campaigns
- Encouraging the early adoption of new technologies
- Advising businesses on regulatory compliance and clean air practices
- Watchdogging regional air regulators on policy implementation and compliance
- Empowering our allies with technical and policy expertise
- Educating decision-makers and the public on air pollution solutions
Our Capacity
We effectively lead California’s air improvement efforts, thanks to our valuable resources and earned credibility:
Strategic presence
- Three offices across the state: Sacramento, Fresno and Los Angeles
- The only air advocacy organization with a staffed office in the San Joaquin Valley
Expert and respected staff
- Twelve staff members with more than 130 combined years of air quality and environmental policy, community organizing and government affairs experience
- Includes a former EPA deputy secretary and a current South Coast Air Quality Management District governing board member
- In 2010, our advocates:
- presented at more than 50 air quality conferences around the world
- collaborated with more than 75 community groups and 15 environmental coalitions
Credibility
- Advocated for more than 15 nationally groundbreaking laws and policies, including global warming laws, fuel standards, and the nation’s first ban on smog-forming dry-cleaning agents
- Persuaded more than 50 companies/organizations to adopt clean air practices, including energy efficiency efforts with community colleges, utilities and cargo vessels
- Party to seven successful lawsuits to hold the government and industry accountable for clean air policies and practices, including amendments to the Clean Air Act and settlements for mitigation efforts from grocery chains, shipping terminals and utilities
- Secured more than $2 billion in funding for air quality improvements, such as cleaner school buses and trucks
- Published more than 20 reports or policy white papers exposing major air pollution problems and outlining effective solutions, including clean air commuting practices, freight industry reforms and global warming mitigation efforts
- Received more than 30 awards or recognition for service from such notable organizations as the EPA, City of Los Angeles and Environment Now
Financials
The Coalition for Clean Air earns top ratings by Charity Navigator and the Better Business Bureau because more than 83% of every dollar you contribute goes directly to funding our work to protect the air you breathe. We rely on the generosity of foundations, corporations and individual donors like you to support our vision of clean air for all Californians.
Annual Report
CCA annual reports highlight our activities and some of the milestones achieved each year in our bold vision of clean, healthy air for California. The road to clean air is a long one, and the steps along the way require major investments of time, talent and resources. We invite you to read about the strides we’ve made, the people involved, and our preparations for what lies ahead.
2010-2011 Annual Report (3MB)
2009 Annual Report (1.8MB)