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Two years ago, Governor Schwarzenegger signed the boldest global
warming law in U.S. history, A.B. 32. Since then, the California
Air Resources Board (CARB) has been at work on a blueprint of
policies and measures needed to cut global warming pollution by
30% by 2020, as required by the law.

This blueprint, called the "A.B. 32 Scoping Plan," will be
released publicly in two weeks.

I urge the following priorities be included in the plan as they
are important to California's future and to our groundbreaking
efforts to fight global warming:

We need a well-designed cap-and-trade program.

Cap-and-trade puts an absolute limit on pollution from some of
California's largest sources and guarantees the environmental
results we need.

CARB should include as many sources as possible in a cap-and-trade
system. I support CARB's preliminary thinking that 80% of
California's global warming pollution would be under a
cap-and-trade system by 2020.

We need an "Indirect Source Rule" (ISR) to control emissions from
development projects.

What is an ISR? Developers measure indirect (mostly vehicle and
energy use) pollution from construction and operation of projects
and ensure that equivalent reductions occur so the project's
impacts are limited.

CARB should require California's local air districts to develop
ISRs to control emissions from new developments.

We need a new Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) to increase clean
energy in our state.

An RPS is a requirement that a percentage of all energy sold in
California be generated from renewable sources (solar, wind,
biomass, etc). California's current RPS target is 10% by 2010.

I support CARB's preliminary recommendation that the state
immediately adopt a 33% RPS by 2020.

Thank you.