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Dear Chairman Nichols and Members of the Board:

I am the Director of a council of churches. We have a forty year
record of concern for California public policy related to
responsibility to protect the earth for our children and future
generations.  Global warming is a crisis with severe environmental,
social, moral, economic, and spiritual consequences.  We strongly
support AB 32 and want to see it implemented in a way that benefits
everyone.

We are concerned that by giving away most of the pollution
allowances for free, polluting companies could receive windfall
profits without incentive to reduce their carbon pollution.  The
high percentage of offsets is also troubling. Polluting facilities
should reduce their carbon emissions in the communities where they
pollute, rather than be allowed to pay for offsets far from home.

California is a world’s role model for effectively addressing
climate change.  Ensure that our Global Warming Solutions Act is
implemented effectively and equitably by limiting offsets and free
give-aways to industry.  

We defeated Prop.23. Please do not "give away the store" by making
AB 32 inconsequential. We are counting on the ARB to have courage
and do the right thing by us citizens.

Sincerely yours, Rev. Albert G. Cohen.