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Dear Ms. Nichols and California Air Pollution Control District
Board Members:

Large cargo ships traveling off our coast produce significant green
house gas (GHG) and toxic air emissions that impact our coastal
communities. Ship strikes also pose a threat to whales. Slowing
down cargo ships meets multiple objectives in your Draft
Cap-and-Trade Investment Plan including: reducing GHG emissions and
other air pollutants, improving public health, and better
protecting whales. A vessel speed reduction program at the Ports of
LA and Long Beach is already proving to be successful, and could
easily be expanded. I support including vessel speed reduction in
your Final Plan as a priority for funding and request Cap-and-Trade
money be directed to the Vessel Speed Reduction Initiative.