Current Actions and Policy Alerts

Want to get involved?

We with the Collaborative are always looking for community-based organizations, advocates, concerned residents and technical assistance providers that are working hard for diesel-free communities, particularly in those low-income and communities of color that are already overburdened. If you’d like to get involved in the DDDC’s work, please contact us.

Freight Transportation Activities

The Collaborative’s Freight Transportation Committee is currently working on two major initiatives: First, we are advocating for stronger, more health protective measures within the Bay Area Air Quality Management District’s Clean Air Plan. Second, we are pushing various regional planning agencies to incorporate diesel pollution and health concerns into the development of a “sustainable community strategy” that will drive Bay Area housing and transportation development for the next decade.

Anti-Idling Activities

Currently, the Idling Committee is developing an Anti-Idling Toolkit for Schools. The Toolkit will be used to educate and mobilize a school community, including students, teachers, parents, school bus and delivery vehicle drivers, and/or diesel vehicle drivers, to reduce idling at and around school sites. The Idling Committee plans to outreach to schools in the Bay Area, disseminate Toolkits and offer support to schools utilizing the Toolkit. In the coming months, the Idling Committee will conduct strategic planning to identify the next educational or policy foci related to the reduction of idling.

Policy Activities

In order to protect existing and new residents from the hazards of diesel air pollution, DDDC identifies key policy and planning processes that will reduce toxic exposure to diesel air pollution in our communities and protect public health. Click below for comment letters related to each policy issue (To save the PDF, right click on the link and choose "Save Link As"):

• Bay Area's Sustainable Communities Strategies/Plan Bay Area
  > Comment letter on SCS/Plan Bay Area and its draft EIR (May 16, 2013) - PDF
  > Comment letter on the scoping of the SCS to MTC (July 11, 2012) - PDF
  > Comment letter on SCS to ABAG, MTC, and BAAQMD (May 7, 2012) - PDF
  > Letter to on SCS implementation to EPA Region 9 (February 2, 2012) - PDF
  
  
• Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment's (OEHHA) Environmental Health Screening Tool (EnviroScreen)
  > Comment letter on EnviroScreen (September 12, 2012) - PDF
  
  

• One Bay Area Grant Program
  > Comment letter on the One Bay Area Grant program to BAAQMD and ABAG (May 2, 2012) - PDF
  
  

• SB 375 Greenhouse Gas Reduction legislation
  > DDDC's Platform for SB 375 Implementation (July 21, 2011) - PDF
  
  

• 2010 Northern California MegaRegion Summit
  > Letter sent to Port of Oakland, Office of Mayor Dellums and Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce (March 17, 2010) -PDF
  
  

• Bay Area Air Quality Management District's proposed cumulative impacts resolution
  > Letter of support to BAAQMD (July 30, 2008) - PDF

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