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Top carbon emitting industrial sectors should not be allowed to
participate in any trading system. At an EJ Advisory Committee
hearing I attended, the position expressed to staff is that would
be a problem from a community perspective if a refinery in
Wilmington could buy credits from a facility out of state (or
region) in order to avoid reducing carbon emissions. It would also
thward the efforts to get cobenefit reductions in other harmful
pollutants. Further, most of the data on the effectiveness on cap
and trade programs does not bode well for their replication. We
are behing the eight-ball on climate change and are already seeing
its harmful manifestations. We cannot afford to gamble on a cap and
trade program especially when it comes to the largest emitters. A
cap and fee program would be better and wouldn't stifle innovation
by allowing top emitters to buy their way out of the program for
several years to come. There isn't room for error on this front.
The emitters who are resisting cap and fee are those who resisted
passing AB 32 to begin with. They need to be regulated strictly,
without wiggle room. Thank you.