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I strongly support the California Cap on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
and Market-Based Regulations. It is a reasonable, market-based
approach to controlling the increase in carbon dioxide and provides
an example of leadership and problem solving for other states and
the federal government.

I am an environmental scientist with a great deal of experience in
water quality and natural resource management in California and
other west coast states, including Alaska. I have seen first hand
the evidence for increasing effects of climate change on water
supply and natural resources, and am increasingly concerned about
the potentially drastic effects of ocean acidification on fisheries
and other marine resources.

Your decision in support of this program would be an important step
toward developing pragmatic solutions to the CO2 problem that
provide incentives for creative problem solving and that begin to
bring this major externality into the market system.