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CALIFORNIA WILL BE A GROUNDBREAKER AND LARGE INCOME MAKER IF WE
      
 make 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. 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.