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Dear CARB Board members:
 
Thank you for your hard work so far envisioning a plan to
implement the Global Warming Solutions Act.
 
I have a few requests that I believe will make this plan even
stronger. I hope you will consider them during your meeting.
 
-         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 or eliminate altogether 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 travelled.  And make these targets mandatory with
teeth attached in terms of penalties for failure to meet them --
the penalties in terms of the planet, after all, are catastrophic.
-          Please require businesses to recycle their materials
and to reuse, share, or purchase only recycled materials whenever
possible. 

We have a chance to allow California to survive the worst crises
our planet has faced in the history of our species. Strong CARB
policies will help our state’s residents realize some of the
benefits we will receive by taking on 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.