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Sierra Club California commends CARB’s tireless efforts in
preparing this comprehensive, far-reaching draft scoping plan.

We believe this draft plan is moving in the right direction, and
recommend further strengthening before it is finalized in
November. Our volunteers and staff have prepared a full set of
comments, presented below.


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Generally, we recommend the following eight crucial GHG actions
for CARB’s plan:

1) Make big polluters pay for all their emissions. Program
revenues should go toward clean technologies, green jobs, and
cost-cutting measures for low-income consumers. CARB also should
narrowly limit offsets.
2) Consider cap-and-auction just one tool among market mechanisms.
Other tools should be brought forward 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.
4) 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 land use and agricultural
sections of Plan.
7) Bolster requirements for zero waste and recycling, as well as
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR).
8) Ensure that actions to reduce greenhouse gases also help,
whenever possible, to clean up California’s unhealthy air. 

Original File Name: SCC COMMENTS AB 32 SCOPING PLAN 7.31.08.doc

Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2008-07-31 15:17:30