Comment Log Display

Here is the comment you selected to display.

Comment 26 for Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation (acf2022) - 45 Day.

First NameHeidi
Last NameHarmon
Email AddressHeidi@greencal.org
AffiliationLet's Green CA!
Subjectin support of CARB’s alternative plan to bring more electric trucks
Comment

Hello, My name is Heidi Harmon and I am the recent former mayor of San Luis Obispo now representing Let's Green CA! and I’m writing today in support of CARB’s alternative plan to bring more electric trucks to the road faster, and strengthen it to better address the dangerous polluting trucks on our roads, big-rigs.

 

California has a deadly diesel pollution problem. Freight communities, neighborhoods near warehouses and families living next highways get the worst of it. The disproportionate exposure of these mostly Black and Brown communities to diesel exhaust pollution is one of the clearest examples of environmental racism.

 

We need a new policy tool to cut pollution from trucks so we can save lives.

 

This board can bring polluting trucks into the future and achieve environmental justice by adopting the Advanced Clean Fleet Accelerated ZEV Transition Alternative that hits 100% electric truck sales by 2036. Electric truck technology is here and strategies and funding are already in place to grow charging options to meet these reasonable and gradual goals.

 

Your own research shows that we will achieve greater pollution reductions, save more lives, and achieve $10 billion more in additional societal benefits by moving up the 100% electric truck sales goal by just four years. We want to bring those benefits to California.

 

 

That is why I’m calling on you, our Air Resources Board, to do your duty and take the better path that you’ve already proposed so other states can reap the benefits of clearer air.

 

Thank you for your time,Heidi Harmon


Attachment
Original File Name
Date and Time Comment Was Submitted 2022-10-27 15:07:59

If you have any questions or comments please contact Clerk of the Board at (916) 322-5594.


Board Comments Home