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Dear California Air Resources Board,

Your proposed amendments to California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard
do not meet the state's clean air and climate goals. Instead, your
program subsidize combustion fuels with billions of dollars per
year. 

Your budget proposes significant delays and cuts of hundreds of
millions of dollars to vital zero-emission transportation programs,
which make the Low Carbon Fuel Standard to support zero-emissions
transportation even more urgent. Historically, California has
devoted 80% of the LCFS's $3 to 4 billion each and every year to
combustion technology. Please, instead of allowing these funds to
continue to languish on the climate sidelines, anchor this
transition to a zero-emissions future. 

The world has changed a lot since the implementation of the LCFS in
2009. California now has a north star goal for the climate and the
air its citizens breathe: zero emissions transportation. Instead of
incentivizing and continuing to funnel billions of LCFS revenue
into harmful polluting biofuels that end up combusted, please move
in the direction of the state's goal and channel funds to electric
vehicles powered by clean energy.

Please course correct and modernize the program by reflecting your
consensus that the only way to meet air quality standards is
through eliminating combustion. Please focus on real air pollution
solutions by adding a clean air multiplier to the credits system,
especially for public fleets, that would deliver major benefits for
air quality and a lifeline to cash-strapped transit agencies that
low-income Californians depend on for mobility. 

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

Sincerely,
Kara Masters
1144 Apache  Topanga, CA 90290-4404