I am
writing today to emphatically urge you to strengthen and improve
the Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update.
The
current Draft Scoping Plan fails to accelerate the targets to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 or
to achieve carbon neutrality no earlier than 2045. It is simply not
good enough to meet the urgency of the climate crisis and the
desperate need for bold actions.
CARB must
improve the Draft Scoping Plan by vastly accelerating a phase-out
of oil and gas extraction and oil refining; not making any more
investment in fossil fuel infrastructure; eliminating or
significantly reducing our reliance on unproven and costly
technologies to prolong polluting fuel sources; pursuing more
robust transportation sector targets; and decarbonizing buildings.
The escalating climate crisis demands that CARB adopts a more
ambitious Scoping Plan.
Thank you
for your concern in these important matters, on behalf of the
California public.