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It is high time CARB increased attention to reducing and containing
methane emissions from the oil and industry.  And that means
especially reducing methane emissions from the electricity and
transportation sectors.  You have got to realize that ordinary
citizens are concerned about carbon-impelled global climate
disruption, and people are waking up to the fact that methane
leakage is a significant factor in this disruption.

Please note:  As the Volkswagen scandal has made clear, there has
to be a stronger diesel emissions control program in order to
lessen black carbon emissions from transportation. There has to be
a real and effective program of methane reduction in agriculture,
and that means in dairies and anaerobic digesters.  CARB should
recognize and act on the fact that most landfill gas-to-energy
operations still allow more GHG emissions than they save. And the
countless leaks of methane from the entire natural gas network of
production, distribution and consumption -- we've all seen those
photos of columns of methane rising from the leaky pipelines in our
cities -- means that natural gas is as dirty carbon-wise as coal if
leakage is reckoned, and California should not allow a single more
gas-fired power plant.  It has to renewables and efficiency and
conservation from here on out.