Events
Charging Ahead: Cutting Vehicle Pollution in the New Trump Years
April 9 @ 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Reception to Follow
UCLA School of Law, Room 1347
385 Charles E. Young Drive
East Los Angeles, CA 90025
Co-hosted by the UCLA School of Law – Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and by the Environmental Law Section of the California Lawyers Association
A symposium exploring promising strategies to reduce car and truck pollution in the second Trump administration.
This day-long symposium at the UCLA School of Law is free and open to the public.
Networking opportunities are available throughout the day and at the closing reception.
This all-day symposium will explore a range of creative approaches available to cities, counties, and states to cut pollution from cars, trucks, and other transportation sources in light of threats to tailpipe emission standards. We’ll also examine ways to ensure that the transition to cleaner vehicles benefits disadvantaged communities.
Our keynote speaker will set the table for the day’s discussions and rally our spirits for what’s to come. Three expert panels will look beyond traditional emission standards and include a wide range of innovative policies aimed at vehicles, infrastructure, and pricing mechanisms.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta will be this year’s lunchtime keynote speaker. UCLA School of Law’s Ann Carlson, former Acting Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, will give opening plenary remarks.
Panelists include Madeline Brozen, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs; Alfonso Directo, Jr., Alliance for Community Transit – Los Angeles; Jessi Hafer Fierro, California Air Resources Board; Adriano Martinez, Earthjustice; Bryn Moncelsi, Climate Resolve; Craig Segall, Craig Segall Consulting LLC and formerly of Evergreen Action; Amy Turner, Columbia Law School.
UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider. Earn up to 3.75 hours of MCLE credit.
Panel Information
Panel 1: Powering cars more cleanly and efficiently: Where do we stand?
Powering motor vehicles with electricity or clean-burning fuels rather than fossil fuels is a goal shared by many jurisdictions, including California. This panel will look at a range of regulatory tools and incentives to advance this transition, asking which ones are likely to be the most effective and durable in the face of the Trump administration’s hostility to EV regulation. Topics will include the status and promise of EV regulations, incentives and infrastructure; clean fuel standards; and ways to address the shrinking role of fuel economy (CAFÉ) standards.
Panel 2: Place-based approaches to transforming fleets: The Role of Indirect Source Rules and ZEV-only zones
Cities and air districts across California and the U.S. have begun to employ place-based tools to reduce emissions from transportation sources. These include tools like so-called “indirect source rules” under the Clean Air Act, which require locations that attract and generate significant transportation pollution, like warehouses, to take steps to reduce that pollution. Jurisdictions have also begun to consider and enact ZEV-only zones for certain vehicles. This panel will explore place-based regulation of vehicles and ask whether use of these tools can and should be expanded.
Panel 3: Promising strategies for ditching cars altogether
Efforts to reduce transportation emissions by getting people out of their cars have a long and checkered history. (New York City recently embraced one tool aimed at this goal, adopting congestion pricing to reduce traffic and vehicle pollution in the most crowded neighborhoods in Manhattan.) What are the most promising policies and programs succeeding today in moving people out of cars and into other forms of transit, including public transit and active transportation (bikes, walking, scooters)? What can other jurisdictions learn from those successes?
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