I'm deeply concerned that CARB's five-year scoping plan for
climate mitigation is widly insufficient to reach its 2030 goals.
The cap-and-trade program continues to have way too many allowances
to do the heavy lifting of decarbonization, it ignores local air
pollution that effects marginalized communities, and overall does
not appear capable of reaching California's climate targets.
Furthermore, the heavy reliance on carbon direct capture--while I
believe in the necessity of the technology--seems like a lot of
hand-waiving when it should be focused on hard and fast goals to
mitigate. If this plan gets locked in for five more years, it's
going to become even more difficult to reform. Please, use every
effort to go back to the drawing board with this and devise a plan
that can actually demonstrate a clear path to those 2030
targets.
Thank you for your time,
Steve Markley
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