Result

California paves the way for cleaner cars.

California's pioneering clean cars standards, which we helped pass in 2006, paved the way for national fuel-economy standards announced by President Obama last fall (shown here with our federal global warming program director, Nathan Willcox). Nationwide, the fleetwide fuel efficiency average will double to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025: The single biggest step ever taken to break our dependence on oil and tackle global warming. 

Result

Nation's first cap-and-trade program enacted.

The California Air Resources Board finalized the nation’s first ever economy-wide cap and trade program to drive down global warming pollution.