John, can you name the biggest source of climate pollution in the United States?

It’s transportation: the cars, trucks, buses, trains, planes, and ships that take us where we need to go. If we as a country hope to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, we must take immediate, bold action. And the single most effective thing we can do right now is restore the Clean Car Standards.

Please donate to our $2-for-$1 Summer Match campaign to help restore common-sense federal pollution limits and state leadership on vehicle pollution.

For every $1 you donate to our Summer Match, two long-time EDF members will donate $2 more - tripling the impact you can make with your gift.

Any size gift can make a big impact when thousands of EDF members combine their support to unlock the maximum matching gift available.

Would it surprise you to know that the biggest source of transportation pollution isn’t those gas-gobbling airplanes, trains, or 18-wheelers? While heavy-duty vehicles do pollute more than smaller ones, the sheer number of cars and light trucks on our roads has them beat.

Cars and light trucks account for about 45% of all U.S. oil consumption and more than 20% of our nation’s total climate pollution. Slashing that much pollution is a big challenge, but it’s also a big opportunity - and we already have the roadmap to take advantage of it.

The wildly successful 2012 Clean Car Standards were already well on their way to saving U.S. drivers more than $1 trillion and keeping over a billion metric tons of climate pollution out of our air, when former coal lobbyist-turned-EPA-Chief Andrew Wheeler overturned them in a move widely viewed as cronyism.

Wheeler went even further by stripping states like California of their right to set their own tough standards to protect their communities. 

Your donation to EDF’s Summer Match will go three times as far to right these wrongs and put the U.S. on the path to a fully zero-emission transportation sector by 2050.

Now is our moment - we have no time left to waste. Will you help power the clean energy revolution?

In gratitude and with hope for a better shared future,

Emily Stevenson
Manager, Online Membership