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Comment 13 for Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Trust for California (vw-mititrust-pl-ws) - 1st Workshop.
First Name: Penny
Last Name: Elia
Email Address: greenp1@cox.net
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Subject: Invest Volkswagen settlement in green infrastructure and prioritize underserved communitie
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Dear California Air Resources Board, I'm writing to urge you to spend the approximately $400 million in funds covered by Appendix D in the Volkwagen settlement on projects that will increase the use of zero-emission vehicles and technologies in the heavy-duty sector. The funds provide a perfect opportunity to rapidly advance, commercialize, and deploy non-polluting vehicles that are independent of carbon or methane fuels. That includes electric drayage trucks, electric transit buses, and electric school buses. To spend this money on anything other than zero-emission vehicles would mean exposing communities that are most burdened by heavy-duty sector vehicles and activities to more pollution than necessary. The settlement funds present a unique opportunity to eliminate decades of air pollution hotspots. In the programs you support with these funds, I urge you to prioritize environmental justice and the communities hit hardest by air pollution. The California Air Resources Board should not use the funding for natural gas, propane, or diesel vehicles. Further dependence on fossil fuels only means more pollution, and only a transition to electric vehicles and investing in electric vehicle infrastructure will make it possible to have a transportation sector that is eventually 100% clean.
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2017-10-23 11:59:15
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