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Reduce Emissions Now and in the Future
More than four of every ten Americans live in communities with
dangerously dirty air. According to the American Lung Association,
over 135 million people are living in places with unhealthy levels
of ozone or particle pollution. And the burden of living with
unhealthy air is not shared equally; people of color are over three
times more likely to be breathing the most polluted air than white
people.1
I urge CARB to continue to support the development of dairy
digesters and the use of dairy biomethane in the Low Carbon Fuel
Standard and other programs. Reducing methane emissions from
dairies is critical to achieve the state's overall climate goals
and using that biomethane in heavy duty trucks that replace diesel
trucks also provides enormous benefits for air quality. Continuing
to support dairy digesters is also required by SB 1383 (Lara, 2016)
and multiple other laws in California.
Low NOx engines are proven, cost-effective and available today for
medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. Moreover, because RNG is used,
life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from low NOx vehicles are
reduced further. Fueling with RNG also creates new economic
development for energy created from wastewater treatment,
landfills, animal waste and other methane sources and significantly
increases air quality by reducing the amount of methane released. I
strongly believe that RNG-operated low NOx vehicles should not just
be "allowed" but must be promoted in the CARB LCFS program if
emissions reductions are to occur in any reasonable timeframe.
Statutory requirements are pressing on California and CARB needs
solutions that work now to decarbonize and clean California's
environment. Therefore, I request that RNG-operated low NOx trucks
be prominent in CARB's strategies as an immediate pathway to a zero
emission future.