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I would like to describe how very important the following three
issues are to California's future and to our groundbreaking
efforts to fight global warming:

1.  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.

I, and all of Environmental Defense Fund, strongly urge CARB to
include as many sources as possible in a cap-and-trade system. We
support CARB's preliminary thinking that 80% of California's
global warming pollution would be under a cap-and-trade system by
2020.

Please make the above comments part of the viewable public record.
 Thank you!

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

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

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

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