350 Contra Costa is helping Pittsburg and Antioch families create healthier, all-electric homes through the East Contra Costa Healthy Homes Project. This effort improves air quality, saves energy, and opens doors to good local clean-energy jobs—building a stronger, more equitable East Bay.
Everything we burn, we breathe: Clean Air Week 2025 invites you to explore solutions for eliminating fossil gas pollution from our homes. Join us for informative webinars on air quality, electrification, and the launch of the Natural Gas Quitline. Everyone’s voice matters in creating a cleaner, healthier future—let’s breathe easier together!
Make the switch to heat pumps! Enjoy cleaner air, lower energy costs, and a smaller carbon footprint while keeping your family safe and healthy.
Concord residents: Earn $500 by hosting an Electrification Party! Share the benefits of clean energy with neighbors through a live cooking demo, expert tips on induction stoves and heat pumps, and hands-on tools. Sign up by December 31!
Inside: After the Berkeley ruling: Moving ahead with building electrification; Climate Leadership in Action; Chevron and Martinez Refinery Co. to cut emissions; ACTION ITEM: All-electric affordable housing; and much more!
The federal ruling on Berkeley’s ban of gas hookups won’t stop paths to an electric future. Read about 4 Ways to Build an Electric Future, Post Berkeley Ruling.
Inside: Walnut Creek Sustainability Week Free Lunch & Learn Webinars, Carbon Capture and Storage: A False Climate Solution, California Sues Big Oil for Damages, Nine Climate ‘Solutions’ That Don’t Help, Legislative Wrap-Up–5 Big Wins!
On April 17, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Berkeley’s 2019 ordinance banning natural gas hookups in most new construction. Bad news, yes—but not a fatal blow to the rapidly growing movement to make buildings all-electric.
Thanks to an innovative e-lending program set up by Lafayette’s Environmental Task Force, city residents can borrow an induction cooktop or electric leaf blower for up to two weeks.
On March 15, Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) voted to phase out ‘natural’ gas furnaces and water heaters starting in 2027. The goal is to eliminate emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx), a significant cause of serious health problems.
