Clean Air Council

Energy Education: The Council played a key role in the Pennsylvania part of a national campaign to cut polluting methane from the oil and gas industry, culminating in a new U.S Environmental Protection Agency rule to reduce methane emissions from that industry by 80%. It continued its work on climate resiliency with communities in Southeast Pennsylvania, helping them advocate for projects in their localities that will mitigate the expected impact from warming temperatures. It supported solar projects in Pennsylvania by working with residents to push for changes in local laws to allow those projects to be built.

Transportation Education: The Council continued to promote use of its GoPhillyGo regional multi-modal carless trip-planning website. Clean Air Council encouraged Philadelphia employers to provide free or heavily subsidized public transit access as a benefit to their employees through the SEPTA Key Advantage program. The Council continued to organize two different month-long cycling challenges each year with Love to Ride in order to encourage more bike riding. It held events for the public at trails in Philadelphia, encouraging greater use and awareness of them. Its Feet First Philly program increased the number of pedestrian enhancement mini-grants it awarded in Philadelphia this year to 21.

Other Education: Clean Air Council continued to reduce tobacco smoke pollution by encouraging trade schools and other multi-unit housing structures to go smoke-free across Pennsylvania. In conjunction with Johns Hopkins University researchers, the Council completed a health study of residents in Delaware County, Pennsylvania that captured the cumulative burden of living close to polluting industrial infrastructure.