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Dear CARB,

Thank you for the opportunity to submit comments regarding the
Draft Scoping Plan.  I appreciate the hard work of the California
Air Resources Board (CARB) in implementing AB 32, and ensuring CA
significantly reduces its greenhouse gas emissions.

While CARB’s Draft Scoping Plan includes a number of strong
measures, including a call for 33% of electricity to be generated
by clean, renewable energy by 2020, the Draft Plan needs
significant strengthening before it will be up to meeting the
challenge of combating global warming.  My comments focus on
passing regulations and/or laws that mandate specific actions be
taken by industry in order to achieve large-scale emission
reductions.  

Accordingly, I’m making the following suggestions:

•	Make polluters pay for their emissions of greenhouse gases,
using the resulting revenues to promote clean energy and aid
low-income consumers. 
•	Sharply limit and verify any offsets. Do not link California’s
program to any states with weaker emission standards. 
•	Set a goal of 100% renewable electricity by 2020 through
legislation or regulation.
•	Promote and enable Community Choice Electricity Aggregation
(CCA), which allows communities to pool their buying power to
generate clean power.
•	Include stronger measures to reform land use planning in ways
that reduce vehicle miles traveled.
•	Mandate that auto companies sell hundreds of thousands of
Zero-Emission Vehicles (ZEVs) by 2014, not the woefully inadequate
level of 7,500 ZEVs proposed by your plan.
•	Put Zero Waste front and center:  increase recycling by
businesses, mandate building facilities to compost all green
waste, and require producers to take responsibility for the
end-of-life disposition of their products.

I hope these critical measures become a part of the final Scoping
Plan to be released later this year.  Thank you again for your
time and consideration.

Sincerely,

Dana McPhall

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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2008-07-29 13:22:48