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Comment #21 for Public Workshop to Discuss Potential Changes to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard
(lcfs-wkshp-feb23-ws) - 1st Workshop

First Name: Evan
Last Name: Edgar
Email Address: evan@edgarinc.org
Affiliation
SubjectLithium Supply Chain Due Diligence - EJAC Implementation
Comment
CARB needs to adopt a California Battery Directive following the EU
Battery Directive to compliment the recently adopted Scoping Plan
Update 2022 and the recommendations from the Environmental Justice
Advisory Committee (EJAC), where the Scoping Plan accelerates the
electrification of the transportation sector with few conditions
other than not exacerbating harm to disproportionately impacted
communities. Mining lithium from around the world is severely
exacerbating harm disproportionately on impacted communities.  More
than half the world's lithium resources lie beneath the salt flats
in the Andean regions of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile, where
indigenous quinoa farmers and llama headers must now compete with
miners for water in one of the world's driest regions. The LCFS
promoting ZEVs need to take Lithium Supply Chain Due Diligence into
consideration.
Attachment www.arb.ca.gov/lists/com-attach/25-lcfs-wkshp-feb23-ws-AGxXOFAlWWJVOlUg.pdf

Original File Name: Lithium Supply Chain Due Diligence ZEV Battery_.pdf

Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2023-03-14 14:42:27


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