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Dear Ms. Nichols and California Air Pollution Control District
Board Members:

Large cargo ships traveling off our coast produce significant GHG
and toxic air emissions that impact our coastal communities. I
should know, I may not live in CA but Seattle is just as bad and we
recently had a small fin whale carcass wash up on our shores having
been struck by a ship.  Ship strikes pose a huge threat to whales.
Slowing down cargo ships meets multiple objectives in your Draft
Cap-and-Trade Investment Plan including: reducing GHG emissions and
other air pollutants, improving public health, and better
protecting whales. I support including vessel speed reduction in
your Final Plan as a priority for funding and request Cap-and-Trade
money be directed to the Vessel Speed Reduction Initiative.  As CA
leads the way in many arenas, I hope that you can continue to point
the way and do the right thing with respect to this issue.
       Thank you, Shelly Carpenter