Nate Wallace
About Nate Wallace
Nate Wallace is program manager, clean transportation at Environmental Defence. He's passionate about shifting to clean mobility and building more sustainable cities. Wallace's background is in public transit advocacy, spending more than three years in a policy role at the Canadian Urban Transit Association, where he helped shape policy and government relations efforts to achieve billions in emergency transit funding during the pandemic. His academic background includes a masters degree in political management from Carleton University and a bachelor of philosophy in interdisciplinary leadership studies from UNB’s Renaissance College. In his free time, Nate enjoys listening to heavy metal, watching movies with friends and exploring nature.
Save our public transit systems before they go down
By failing to address the public transit problem, we risk a future that is costlier, more polluting, and where gridlock holds people and goods back from their full potential.
Debunking auto industry lobbyists in their war against ZEVs
Canadians don’t feel particularly oppressed by auto manufacturers having to meet requirements for seatbelts, airbags or catalytic converters. Why would a requirement to have batteries instead of engines be any different?
To hit our climate goals, automakers have to clean up their act
Car corporations want to slow the switch to electric cars so they can continue profiting from pollution.
Auto industry greed stands between us and a climate-safe future
Industry associations are fighting government regulations forcing them to meet their green pledges. Canadians are ready to make this shift — automakers are holding us back.
