[link removed] [[link removed]]
The Newsletter [[link removed]]
May 29, 2024
Newly Unified Coalition -- AIRE!
Friends, [link removed] [[link removed]]
LAANE’s climate work is ever evolving, and I’m excited to announce that the coalitions formerly known as RePower LA and Water Justice LA have united to become: AIRE !
AIRE stands for Angelenos for an Inclusive and Regenerative Economy , and we’re building collective power to fight for climate justice.
While I was leading the RePowerLA work, and since its inception in 2011, we focused on creating good green family-sustaining jobs for LA’s frontline communities, ensuring equitable access to utilities, and investments in energy efficiency. Over the last 15 years, we’ve supported LADWP’s commitment to clean energy via a community solar program, worked with IBEW 18 and SCOPE to launch LADWP’s apprenticeship pathway called UPCT, and banned utility shutoffs during extreme weather conditions, among other big victories at our public utility.
The Water Justice LA coalition focused on equitable access to clean and sustainable water, especially for low-income communities and communities of color, as well as good union jobs and public control of this public good. Alongside our coalition partners, we won Measure W in 2018, which funds infrastructure to capture and clean storm water across Los Angeles County, making the region more resilient to climate change. We’ve helped secure statewide funding and union job standards for sustainable water supply projects. And working together, Water Justice LA and RePower LA secured millions in utility debt relief for LADWP customers at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The work of the RePower LA and Water Justice LA coalitions will help shape AIRE’s path forward. Together, we seek to achieve a union-made renewable energy and water secure future for Los Angeles that invests in equitable access, green family-sustaining jobs, and community benefits for frontline communities.
AIRE will continue to partner with the Los Angeles & Orange County Building and Construction Trades Council, IBEW Local 11 and 18, as well as continuing our legacy of collaboration with partners like SCOPE, NRDC, CBE, Sierra Club, and Pacoima Beautiful - to newer allies like LA Waterkeeper, Heal The Bay, Tree People, PSR-LA, and the Living Schoolyards Coalition, in our nearly 20 partner and ally coalition to realize our vision for the future.
I hope you can continue supporting AIRE by following us on Instagram [[link removed]] and X [[link removed]] , as we continue moving towards a greener LA!
[[link removed]] Adelante,
[[link removed]]
Víctor Sánchez
LAANE Executive Director
🎉 FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA! 🎉
[link removed] [[link removed]] [link removed] [[link removed]] www.laane.org [www.laane.org]
LAANE is a leading advocacy organization dedicated to building a new economy for all. Combining dynamic research, innovative public policy and organizing of broad alliances, LAANE promotes a new economic approach based on good jobs, thriving communities, and a healthy environment.

LAANE
464 Lucas Ave Suite 202
Los Angeles, CA 90017
United States
If you believe you received this message in error or wish to no longer receive email from us, please
unsubscribe: [link removed] .