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Kudos to CARB's staff for a Scoping Plan that's moving in the right
direction.  But it needs strengthening before completion in
November.  

CARB's challenge is to 1) support solutions that are truly
commensurate with the scale of the problem; 2) insist that
barriers to climate protection and carbon reduction be clearly
identified, understood and removed; 3) resist attempts by
politicians and special interests to water down the science and
weaken the Plan; 4) refuse to be sidetracked by false paths, phony
solutions, green-scamming and dirty-industry foot-dragging.

Seven crucial GHG actions to improve CARB’s plan:

1)   Make any cap and trade 100-percent auction -- with revenues
going to scale up renewable clean energy, not to a general public
payout, keeping offsets narrowly limited and solidly verified. 
Don't allow the Western Climate Initiative to dilute or compromise
California's own, better solutions.
2)   Frame cap-and-auction as just one tool  among market
mechanisms.  Bring forward the other tools more robustly,
including feed-in tariffs and carbon fees in the Plan’s near-term
action agenda; 
3)   Give the 33-percent renewable electricity standard by 2020
the force of law, either through legislation or regulatory action
or both.  It's not enough just to recommend that been done and
hope it will occur.
4)   Strongly promote and enable Community Choice Electricity
Aggregation (CCA) and its potentially powerful GHG reductions; 
5)   Give more specificity and amplitude to the goal of
electrifying transportation, especially greatly expanding ZEV
numbers (plug-ins and electric cars) beyond CARB's currently too
low projected levels; 
6)   Greatly strengthen the too-modest and overly-timid land use
and agricultural sections of Plan 
7)   Include and support ALL ETAAC's recommendations on zero waste
and recycling, not just a few, as well as Extended Producer
Responsibility (EPR);