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Dear California Air Resources Board,

Your proposed amendments to California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard
are a climate policy failure that backslides on the state's role as
a climate leader. The program subsidizes combustion fuels and has
no place among climate policies for the 2020s. There is too much on
the line for you to get this critical program so wrong. 

Governor Newsom's budget proposes significant delays and cuts of
hundreds of millions of dollars to vital zero-emission
transportation programs.  You must use the Low Carbon Fuel Standard
to more fully support zero-emissions transportation. Historically,
California has devoted 80% of the LCFS's $3 to 4 billion every year
to combustion technology. These funds could be anchoring our
transition to a zero-emissions future. 

The world has changed a lot since the implementation of the LCFS in
2009. We have a goal for our climate and the air we breathe: zero
emissions transportation.  Continuing to invest the billions in
revenue from the LCFS into polluting biofuels that end up
combusted, instead of electric vehicles powered by clean energy,
hampers our efforts to fight the climate crisis while enriching oil
companies and industrial agriculture. 

I urge you to correct your course and modernize the program. The
only way to meet air quality standards is through eliminating
combustion altogether, not spending billions of dollars on lavish
incentives for combustion every year. By focusing on real air
pollution solutions, you could add a clean air multiplier to the
credits system. Electrifying public fleets that transport many
people at once would deliver major benefits for California's air
quality and throw a lifeline to cash-strapped transit agencies that
low-income Californians depend on for mobility. 

California cannot meet our clean air and climate goals without
harnessing the power of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard and
overhauling this multi-billion-dollar program for our zero
emissions future. Please reform the program to achieve our state's
ambitious goals.

Sincerely,
Elizabeth Edinger
10822 Magnolia Blvd Apt 36  North Hollywood, CA 91601-3981