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Comment 14 for Design Comments for the GHG Scoping Plan (sp-design-ws) - 1st Workshop.


First Name: Rebecca
Last Name: Overmyer-Velazquez
Email Address: rovermyer@whittier.edu
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Subject: Cap and Trade
Comment:
CARB should not give industries free pollution permits---polluters
should have to pay for their emissions. CARB should study very
carefully how the European Union made the mistake of giving away
pollution credits based on self-reporting by industries of their
emissions---we don't have the luxury of making this same mistake
in California! Rather than allowing polluters to buy offsets,
there must be strong regulation of GHGs. I was dismayed to hear in
the public workshop that caps will be regulated but that these caps
will need to be supplemented with credits. Why not just regulate
low caps to begin with, enforce and monitor them rigorously, and
provide tax credits to those polluters who truly make progress in
reducing their emissions?

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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2008-07-16 15:45:57



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