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Galvanize public opinion and local voices to pressure decision-makers.
Run a public narrative campaign that makes the stakes of clean truck standards tangible: diesel pollution harms, community health, and states’ ability to protect residents. Use earned media and digital distribution to translate broad support into real pressure on lawmakers and agencies at key moments. The work is most valuable when it stays tied to decision windows in Congress and the courts.
Why this works
- Clean air is a kitchen-table issue.
- Running stories of kids with asthma in diesel-choked communities and highlighting that Congress is trying to “Make America Smoggy Again” (as Gov.
- Newsom quipped) can shame legislators and mobilize voters.
- Broad majorities support stricter truck pollution rules, even after hearing counter-arguments – a public campaign can translate that into calls and letters to Congress (“Don’t gut our clean air protections!”).
- This also frames the narrative as health vs.
- special interests, isolating opponents.
Natural Resources Defense Council
Tax-deductibleInternational environmental advocacy leveraging science, law, and policy to protect people and nature.
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is an international environmental advocacy organization that leverages science, law, and policy to protect public health and nature. NRDC advances clean air and water protections, climate action, wildlife conservation, and environmental justice in the U.S. and abroad.
Mechanism
How Natural Resources Defense Council uses funding
- Define the objective and decision-maker for each push (vote, court filing, or enforcement deadline).
- Build a narrative and proof points grounded in the cause’s public-health and clean-air framing.
- Distribute through press outreach, community channels, and digital content that travels.
- Monitor counter-messaging and respond quickly with credible sources and spokespeople.
- Close the loop by documenting what changed and what the next move is.
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