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Dear CARB Board members:
 
Thank you for your productive work in envisioning a plan to
implement the Global Warming Solutions Act.
 
Please consider some of my thoughts to make the plan stronger
 
-         Please auction off all emission allowances. Program
revenues should go toward GHG reduction programs, such as clean
technologies, green jobs, and aid for low-income consumers and
small businesses to reduce their utility bills. 
-         Please work to reduce the role of offsets in the Plan.
Providing too many offsets encourages continuing emissions in
low-income neighborhoods and in defenseless habitats, and weakens
the demand for clean energy technology innovation. Limiting offsets
will create more clean-energy jobs, stimulating our state’s
economy.
-           Please increase the targets for local governments to
reduce emissions caused by poorly planned growth that drives up
vehicle miles traveled.
-          Please require businesses to recycle materials. 

We can continue to make California less of a contributor to the
problem as we address one of the worst crises humans on our planet
have ever faced. Strong CARB policies will help our state’s
residents realize some of the benefits we will receive by reducing
global warming pollution: reduced air pollution, more clean-energy
jobs, less waste and healthier communities.
 
Thanks again for your work on behalf of clean air for California.