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Dear CARB Board members:
 
Thank you for your hard work so far in envisioning how to
implement the Global Warming Solutions Act.
 
Please consider the following suggestions to make this plan even
stronger:

- Auction all emission allowances. Program revenues should go
toward GHG reduction programs, such as clean technologies, green
jobs, and aid for low-income consumers and small businesses to
reduce their utility bills. 

- Work to reduce the role of offsets in the Plan. Providing too
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.

- Increase the targets for local governments to reduce emissions
caused by poorly planned growth that drives up vehicle miles
travelled.

- Require businesses to recycle their materials. 

Strong CARB policies will help our state’s residents realize some
of the benefits we will receive by working to reduce pollution that
speeds global warming: reduced air pollution, more clean-energy
jobs, less waste and healthier communities.
 
Thanks again for your work on behalf of clean air for California.