First Name | Robert E. |
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Last Name | Rutkowski |
Email Address | Non-web submitted comment |
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Subject | Re: CARB Scoping Plan Final Comments |
Comment | Re: CARB Scoping Plan Final Comments Dear Chair: Thank you for you and your staff's hard work on the Climate Change Scoping Plan. Your plan will shape the state's response to global warming over several decades. As you meet Dec. 11-12 to consider whether to adopt the plan, I hope you take the time to review three key areas: land use, auctions, and offsets. Land Use: Please consider setting a higher target for land use pollution reduction, since the low target included in the current version will not help the state to achieve its longer-range 2050 goal for reducing the pollution that causes global warming. But changing land-use practices now will reduce sprawl, preserve pollution-absorbing open space, and provide a net economic benefit to our state. Auctions: Please consider requiring auctions not giveaways for any and all carbon allowances granted by CARB. Not only does auctioning promote polluter accountability and encourage faster reductions of emissions, but the auction system also would provide revenue for important goals that CARB shares with the environmental community, such as providing better transit, green jobs and help for low-income areas. Offsets: Please think about reducing the offsets allowed under this plan. Under the current plan, polluters could rely entirely on offsets in the early years of the program, thus allowing polluters in capped sectors to delay making their own emission reductions until later years, in some cases not until 2018. Thank you for the strong leadership you have provided and continue to provide as California addresses the pollution that causes global warming. Yours sincerely, Robert E. Rutkowski cc: House Leadership 2527 Faxon Court Topeka, Kansas 66605-2086 P/F: 1 785 379-9671 E-mail: rutkowski@terraworld.net |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted | 2008-12-09 10:55:28 |
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