First Name: | John |
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Last Name: | Livingston |
Email Address: | livingstonjohn@att.net |
Affiliation | Member of the Sierra Club |
Subject | Cap and Trade Receipt Funding for 2018 |
Comment |
1. There should be accountability for programs that utilize funding. Too often government agencies simply assign the salaries for a group of employees to a program and no real results are expected and published. More accountability 2. Forest fires produce so much CO2 that the improvements made in all other CO2 reduction programs are cancelled out. Fires on all public lands except wilderness areas should be put out ASAP. New technology and equipment should be developed that can stop fires from burning for weeks. Old paradigms must be changed to maximize resources to stop these fires. Burning the forests using controlled burns is not the way to reduce CO2 emissions. Brush and new vegetation will grow back very quickly and the problem will not be solved. We have to increase penalties for arson and reckless activities that involve starting fires. More technology for quickly extinguishing fires. 3.Accelerate farm vehicle exhaust improvements. Just as highway vehicles are required to limit their vehicle emissions through smog checks so too all farm vehicles should be required to do so and this program could initially be paid for by the Cap and Trade program and after 5 years the program should be paid for by the farmers themselves. 4. Dust from farming should be reduced by requiring soil disturbance to occur when weather conditions and soil moisture are optimum. Equipment can be devised to prevent dust from rising up in the air and being disbursed by the winds. Irrigation should be required immediately following plowing and discing that would eliminate the days of dust storms in the San Joaquin Valley. 5. Research should be funded to gather the state of the art in collecting CO2 emissions from cement plant, biomass power generation and other major CO2 emitters. We have great universities and the lack of technology to collect and prevent CO2 emissions is worse than not finding a cure for cancer. We can do it if the will were present. |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2018-02-05 19:23:05 |
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