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Dear CARB Board members:
    
Thank you for working to envision a plan to implement the Global
Warming Solutions Act. I hope you will consider the following
carefully during your meeting about this plan.
    
1) Please auction off all emission allowances. Program revenues
should go towards GHG reduction programs, clean technologies, green
jobs, and aid for low-income consumers and/or small businesses to
reduce their utility bills. Any cap and trade programs should
auction all pollution allowances, with revenues used for public
benefits, like developing clean energy technology. 
 
2) Please work to reduce the role of offsets in the Plan.
Providing many offsets encourages continuing emissions in
low-income neighborhoods and in defenseless habitats, and weakens
the demand for clean energy technology innovation. Limiting offsets
will create more clean-energy jobs, stimulating our state's
economy.

3) Please call for more use (than 7500) Zero Emission Vehicles
(ZEVs) vehicles by 2014. Since this technology is already available
increase this number to hundreds of thousands by 2014. 

3) Please increase the targets for local governments to reduce
emissions caused by poorly planned growth that drives up vehicle
miles travelled. CARB regulations should utilize “Community
Choice,” which lets cities and counties pool the buying power of
all local electric customers and increase ratio of renewable energy
they utilize. For example, Marin County and San Francisco have
Community Choice plans requiring 51% renewable energy sources, far
more than the current utility average of 12%. Could you follow this
in your plan?  

4) Please require businesses to recycle their materials.
Incentives and fines for not complying to recycling regulations are
necessary to get businesses to recycle. These are needed.
 
We have a chance to make California even better as we address this
globial warming crises. Strong CARB policies will help our state's
residents realize their need for change. This can then reduce air
pollution, provide more clean-energy jobs, produce less waste and
create healthier communities. Take strong action now.


Thanks you, 
J.A. Swanick