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Dear California Air Resources Board,

Your proposed amendments to California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard
are a climate policy failure that backslides on the state's role as
a climate leader. The program subsidizes combustion fuels to the
tune of billions of dollars per year and has no place in our
toolkit of climate policies for the 2020s. There is too much on the
line for our climate to get this critical program so wrong. 

Governor Newsom's budget proposes significant delays and cuts of
hundreds of millions of dollars to vital zero-emission
transportation programs, which makes it all the more urgent to use
the Low Carbon Fuel Standard to more fully support zero-emissions
transportation. Historically, California has thrown good money
after bad, and devoted 80% of the LCFS's $3 to 4 billion each and
every year to combustion technology. It would be ridiculous to
allow these funds to continue to languish on the climate sidelines,
instead of anchoring our transition to a zero-emissions future. 

The world has changed greatly since the implementation of the LCFS
in 2009. Unlike the 2000s, we have a northstar goal for our climate
and the air we breathe: zero emissions transportation.  Continuing
to invest the billions in revenue from the LCFS into harmful and
polluting biofuels that will be combusted instead of electric
vehicles powered by clean energy, hampers our efforts to fight the
climate crisis while enriching oil companies and industrial
agriculture. 

Please modernize the program by reflecting your consensus that the
only way to meet air quality standards is through eliminating
combustion altogether, not piling on billions of dollars in lavish
incentives for combustion every year. By focusing on effective air
pollution solutions, you could add a clean air multiplier to the
credits system, especially for public fleets that transport many
people at once, which would deliver major benefits for California's
air quality and greatly assist cash-strapped transit agencies that
low-income Californians depend on for mobility. 

California cannot meet our clean air and climate goals without
harnessing the power of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard and
overhauling this multi-billion-dollar program for our zero
emissions future. Please act expeditiously to reform the program to
achieve our state's ambitious goals.

Sincerely,
Sharon Morris
90 Georgia Way  San Leandro, CA 94577-1831