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Comment 174 for General Comments for the GHG Scoping Plan (sp-general-ws) - 1st Workshop.
First Name: Sue
Last Name: Lynn
Email Address: suelynn403@yahoo.com
Affiliation: Sierra Club
Subject: CARB's Draft Scoping Plan
Comment:
There are a number of strong suggestions in the draft, including the call for renewable energy by 2020. But more needs to be done. It's important to make polluters pay for their emissions, and the funds generated can be used to promote clean energy and help low-income consumers make needed changes. Offsets should be used sparingly, and should be fully verified. Land use planning needs to include stronger measures designed to reduce vehicle miles travelled, by making housing and commercial activities denser. Allow communities to pool their buying power in order to develop clean power through Community choice Electricity Aggregation. It's critical that auto companies be required to sell far more zero=emission vehicles than the current draft requires; 7500 ZEVs is a drop in the bucket. Hundreds of thousands are needed. Stronger measures are needed in the area of waste and recycling. Electronics companies should be required to dispose of their products when they are no longer working, as should other manufacturers. This would encourage production of more durable goods. businesses and building facilities should be required to increase recycling, and compost green waste where there is sufficient quantity. I am a Sierra Club member and to me global warming is the single biggest issue facing our world today. If we don't get this right, we're toast. I'm proud to be a Californian, since California is taking the lead on this issue. The scoping plan needs to be strengthened to provide the strongest possible efforts to counter global warming.
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2008-08-01 11:57:05
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