Hello, My name is Heidi Harmon and I am the recent
former mayor of San Luis Obispo now representing Let's Green CA! and I’m writing today in
support of CARB’s alternative plan to bring more electric
trucks to the road faster, and strengthen it to better address the
dangerous polluting trucks on our roads, big-rigs.
California has a deadly diesel pollution problem.
Freight
communities, neighborhoods near warehouses and families living next
highways get the worst of it. The disproportionate exposure of
these mostly Black and Brown communities to diesel exhaust
pollution is one of the clearest examples of environmental
racism.
We need a new policy tool to cut pollution from trucks
so we can save lives.
This board can bring polluting trucks into the future
and achieve environmental justice by adopting the Advanced Clean
Fleet Accelerated ZEV Transition Alternative that hits 100%
electric truck sales by 2036. Electric truck technology is here and
strategies and funding are already in place to grow charging
options to meet these reasonable and gradual goals.
Your own research shows that we will achieve greater
pollution reductions, save more lives, and achieve $10 billion more
in additional societal benefits by moving up the 100% electric
truck sales goal by just four years. We want to bring those
benefits to California.
That is why I’m calling on you, our Air Resources
Board, to do your duty and take the better path that you’ve
already proposed so other states can reap the benefits of clearer
air.
Thank you for your time,Heidi Harmon