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Cleaner Air Partnership Luncheon: 2021 Advocacy

Registration required – RSVP here.

At the Cleaner Air Partnership’s upcoming *Virtual* Quarterly Luncheon, you’ll have an opportunity to learn about and discuss air quality advocacy priorities at both the Federal and State levels.

CAP events are an opportunity to learn about important air quality topics affecting the Sacramento region. Thank you to the generous contributors to the Cleaner Air Partnership: Sac Metro Air District, Teichert, SMUD, Sutter Health, Union Pacific, Sacramento Association of REALTORS®, Placer County Air Pollution Control District, Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District, El Dorado County Air Quality Management District, and the Healthy Air Alliance.

All CAP events are free to attend; registration is required for planning purposes. Email Adrian Rehn with any questions or call (707) 813-1913.

CAP Luncheon: Local Air Quality and Climate Efforts (December 2020)

At the Cleaner Air Partnership’s December 2020 *Virtual* Quarterly Luncheon, attendees learned about local efforts to reduce air pollution and carbon emissions, featuring an update on implementation of the Mayors’ Commission on Climate Change, an overview of the connection between cancer and air pollution from the Healthy Air Alliance, and an update on the Sacramento Neighborhoods Activating on Air Quality (SNAAQ) project – an air monitoring and environmental justice effort led by Valley Vision, WALKSacramento, Breathe California Sacramento Region, and Green Tech Education in North Sacramento and Oak Park.

CAP events are an opportunity to learn about important air quality topics affecting the Sacramento region. Thank you to the generous contributors to the Cleaner Air Partnership: Sac Metro Air District, Teichert, SMUD, Sutter Health, Union Pacific, Sacramento Association of REALTORS®, Placer County Air Pollution Control District, Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District, the Healthy Air Alliance, and the El Dorado County Air Quality Management District.

Speakers (PowerPoint presentations linked):

  • Kate Meis Wright, Local Government Commission (Presentation)
  • Jennifer Venema, City of Sacramento (Presentation)
  • Jim Kennedy, Healthy Air Alliance
  • Dan Witzling, American Cancer Society Los Angeles-Central Coast (Presentation)
  • Adrian Rehn, Valley Vision (Presentation)
  • Jordan Grimaldi, WALKSacramento
  • Patrick Guild, Breathe California Sacramento Region
  • Tyrone Netters, Green Tech Education & Employment

Cleaner Air Partnership Luncheon: Rural Air Quality Issues

Cleaner Air Partnership *Virtual* Luncheon Q2 2020

Registration required through Zoom: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2LE6Ri6MR3m6wZbZhW9Fyg


Please join the Cleaner Air Partnership for our upcoming *Virtual* Quarterly Luncheon! These events are an opportunity to learn about important air quality topics affecting the Sacramento region.


We will learn how businesses are affected by the fast-changing air quality, transportation, and land use ecosystem, including an update on regional advocacy efforts.







Thank you to the generous contributors to the Cleaner Air Partnership: Sac Metro Air District, Teichert, SMUD, Sutter Health, Union Pacific, Sacramento Association of REALTORS®, Placer County Air Pollution Control District, and the Healthy Air Alliance.


Email Adrian Rehn with any questions or call (916) 325-1630.





UC Davis Transportation Plan of Tomorrow

UC Davis has a long history of leadership on transportation. Early world-class investments in campus bike facilities and the citywide Unitrans bus system have led to impressive rates of bicycling and transit use, particularly among undergraduates.

Today, only one in four members of the UC Davis community drive alone to campus – a remarkably low rate. Many institutions would be satisfied with that figure. To their credit, however, UC Davis leaders look at the 25 percent drive-alone mode share and see an opportunity. To seize this opportunity, UC Davis is committed to designing new strategies that improve the travel experience for the campus community that fit with the campus culture, while also striving to reduce daily congestion, impacted parking, vehicle miles traveled and greenhouse gas emissions.

UC Davis is undergoing a transportation planning process called Transportation Tomorrow to understand the needs of the community and the possibilities for positive change within the system. The Transportation Tomorrow plan will serve as a roadmap for how UC Davis structures their transportation programming, policy, and infrastructure.

  • Healthy for People: Transportation Tomorrow will promote walking, bicycling, and transit over single occupancy travel; use of these modes correlates with physical health, mental health, and financial health for individuals.
  • Healthy for the Environment: Transportation Tomorrow will reduce harmful emissions and greenhouse gasses, and contribute to productive uses of prime campus real estate aligned with the institution’s learning and research goals.
  • Healthy for the Institution: Transportation Tomorrow will reduce capital expenses and debt service related to parking to reduce fiscal risk and prepare the institution to respond to potentially different transportation patterns in the future.

Planning started in January 2017 and the plan is currently being implemented.

Regional Industry Clusters of Opportunity (RICO) II: EVs and Waste-to-Energy (2014)

The six-county Sacramento Region (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, Sutter, Yolo, and Yuba Counties) is the area covered by the Sacramento Area Council of Governments and houses an economy with over 70,000 businesses and 2.5 million residents. The region has collaborated effectively on a number of economic development activities, including the Next Economy strategy that was adopted by more than two-dozen jurisdictions and every major economic development organization.

Through AB 118, regions across the state were tasked with developing cluster strategies to develop and deploy innovative technologies that transform the state’s fuel and vehicle types to help attain the California’s climate goals. The California Energy Commission (The Commission) funded projects to develop the Alternative Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program (ARFVTP) cluster. Sacramento’s Regional Cluster of Opportunity (RICO) II grant project was a partnership among public agencies, nonprofit organizations and businesses. Business leaders and local economic, workforce, and community partners worked together to identify priorities in workforce and economic strategies to grow industries around plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) and renewable natural gas (RNG) produced through anaerobic digestion of organic sources of waste in the region (also known as Waste to Energy technology).

The RICO II team analyzed existing data and engaged employers and stakeholders in a collaborative priority setting process to establish an Investment Strategy. This strategy identified needs and opportunities within the cluster. From this, the team developed implementation strategies to develop the cluster.

RICO II Final Report (2014)Download