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Dear California Air Resources Board,

I am writing to urge CARB to protect the health of our communities
by implementing strong rules for Californias historic cap-and-trade
program. We need to maintain, not weaken, incentives in our rules
to make big polluters, like oil refineries, cut pollution, and we
need market rules that will result in the real pollution reductions
we need in order to hit our climate targets. That means eliminating
excess allowances from the market and maintaining, not increasing,
current industrial assistance factors.

I grew up in the Los Angeles area when smog alerts were common and
understand on a very personal level the dangers of air pollution.

Without fair accounting for how many pollution permits should be
made available, our cap-and-trade program is toothless. The fossil
fuel industrys demand for a $365 million giveaway over the next
three years is indefensible, and their request that CARB offer
pollution permits well in excess of what is needed puts our 2030
climate goals at grave risk. California should be holding polluters
accountable and investing in clean energy.

CARB has a responsibility to safeguard the health of the
communities hit hardest by air pollution caused by oil refineries.


Thank you.

Sincerely, Pamela Holley-Wilcox