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Comment 3 for Design Comments for the GHG Scoping Plan (sp-design-ws) - 1st Workshop.
First Name: Margaret
Last Name: Adrian
Email Address: Gramamag@aol.com
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Subject: AB32
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I congratulate CARB for recommending implementation of mandated energy standards, muscular energy efficiency measures, and clean vehicle requirements. However, CARB must go farther if we are going to make the major changes needed to prevent catastrophic changes to our climate. Please include in your Final Scoping Plan steps to · Reduce vehicle miles traveled · Speed up production of zero-emission vehicles · Boost recycling rates · Auction off any emissions permits · Limit offsets · Minimize air quality impacts in our most-polluted communities. Thank you very much for all your hard work. [Your name and address] Suggested additional issues to choose from as recommendations to CARB: · Transportation produces about 40% of greenhouse gas emissions in California. CARB should work for electrification of commercial, public and private transportation. · I want to end my own production of GHGs. Help me by creating a Battery Electric Vehicle Partnership. · Please mandate more land use planning that will reduce the need to drive, so that increasing vehicle use doesn’t erode the gains from fuel efficiency and low-carbon fuels. · Please call for fast-tracking regional mass transit infrastructure, including Bus Rapid Transit programs (especially on existing freeway HOV lanes), expansion of Amtrak service, high-speed passenger rail, electrified commercial transport, and wise locations for transit station locations in neighborhoods. · Recognize and encourage Community Choice Aggregation (CCA), which allows local governments to combine buying power of all customers in their jurisdiction for purchasing electricity. · We need “Lifecycle tracking” of manufactured products, prioritizing reusables and locally-manufactured items. · Utilize the powerful carbon reduction potential of zero waste---- reducing waste by design in manufacturing process, then reusing, recycling or composting products. · Offsets from sinks, such as planting trees or avoiding tree cut-downs, should not be allowed, since they are too difficult to measure and often under-perform.
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2008-07-01 15:38:26
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